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Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

This is how awesome my parents-in-law are:
we invited them to come up for dinner on Father’s Day, but we had a full day at the baseball field, 
so they insisted on bringing not only the main dish 
(an unbelievably delicious beef tenderloin roast – such a treat)
but dessert as well.
My mother-in-law introduced me to this carrot cake recipe years ago and it’s the only carrot cake I ever met that I really liked.
And by like, I mean complete adoration.
Complete adoration = needing to take little forkfuls of leftovers until the cake magically disappears.
{What?! – all those carrots – it’s super healthy!!!!}
I’m a big chocolate girl, but I’d take this any day even over chocoloate cake with chocoloate frosting and chocolate ganache. It is that good!!!
The outer shell of the cake is almost carmelized, the inside, moist and delicious.
Oh and the frosting………not just buttercream, but cream cheese as well.
It’s heavenly, that’s all I can say!
Cake Ingredients:
4 eggs
2 cups white sugar
1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
3 cups grated carrots
Beat eggs, add sugar and oil, continue to beat well.
Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon, beat well.
Fold in carrots.
Pour into greased bundt cake pan.
Bake at 350 for 45 minutes to 1 hour. {Start checking at 45 minutes with a toothpick and don’t let it overbake. Ovens vary – keep an eye on your cake!}
Cool in pan 10 minutes; invert onto cooling rack and let cool at least 1 hour before frosting.
Frosting Ingredients:
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
8 oz. cream cheese
1 lb. confectioners sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
Leave butter and cream cheese on counter to soften, about 1/2 hour, then mix.
Slowly incorporate powdered sugar (so it doesn’t end up all over your kitchen!), then add vanilla and whip until smooth.
After frosting cake, refrigerate until ready to serve.

Enjoy!

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  4. You had me at cream cheese. I've been a baking fool lately and I just swore to myself that I wouldn't make one more treat for a while…sigh. I may have to try this. Just one more and then no more sweets.

  5. Girl, I'm not even close to being a carrot cake fan but your description has me wanting a piece now! Sounds delicious. How lucky are you to have such great in-laws?!