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grandma beck's carrot cake

(1 rating)
Recipe by
Penny Burdge
Lenexa, KS

My grandma cooked pork chops to the texture of tough leather, but she sure could bake with the best. I love this cake and have only made a few minor adjustments by decreasing the salt, adding raisins and decreasing the sugar to compensate for the sweetness of the raisins. I would call this cake "rustic." It has lots of texture. I'm in my 60s - so this recipe has been around quite awhile.

(1 rating)
yield 12 serving(s)
prep time 20 Min
cook time 50 Min
method Bake

Ingredients For grandma beck's carrot cake

  • DRY INGREDIENTS
  • 2 c
    all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp
    ground cinnamon
  • 2 tsp
    baking powder
  • 2 tsp
    baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp
    salt
  • 1 1/2 c
    sugar
  • 1 1/2 c
    canola oil
  • 1 tsp
    pure vanilla extract
  • 4 lg
    eggs
  • ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS
  • 3 c
    grated carrots - don't bother to peel them first, just scrub them clean
  • 1 c
    chopped nuts (she used walnuts, i prefer pecans)
  • 3/4 c
    raisins

How To Make grandma beck's carrot cake

  • 1
    Grease a 9" x 13" baking dish. Preheat oven to 375?F.
  • 2
    Whisk together in a mixing bowl all the dry ingredients; flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
  • 3
    In a large mixing bowl, beat together the eggs, vanilla extract, sugar and oil until smooth. Beat in the dry ingredients until well mixed. Fold in the carrots, nuts, and raisins.
  • 4
    Bake about 45 minutes in the center of the oven at 375?F.
  • 5
    Options - you can easily turn this into a layer cake- just put the batter into 2 8" or 9" round cake pans. I like to use cream cheese frosting on this cake. Frosting: 8 oz. cream cheese, softened 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened 1# powdered sugar 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract Beat until smooth and creamy.

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