Carrot zucchini cake
Carrot zucchini cake recipe in the zucchini category
Recipe ingredients:
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 3/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 cup butter or margarine
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup evaporated milk
- 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 1/2 cups carrots, finely shredded
- 1 1/2 cups unpeeled zucchini, finely shredded
- 3/4 cup pecans, finely chopped
- Pecan cream cheese icing:
- 2 packages cream cheese, 3 ounces each, softened
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 4 teaspoons milk
- 4 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
- 1/2 cup pecans, finely chopped
Recipe method:
- Grease and flour a 13 x 9 x 2 inch baking pan or two 9 x 1 1/2 inch round cake pans. Set aside.
- Stir together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, soda, salt and nutmeg.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat butter with an electric mixer on medium speed for 30 seconds.
- Add sugar and vanilla. Beat till well combined.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
- Stir together the milk and lemon juice.
- Add dry ingredients and milk mixture alternately to beaten mixture, beating on low speed after each addition, just till combined.
- Stir in the carrots and zucchini and fold in the nuts.
- Pour batter into the prepared pans.
- Bake in a 350 degrees F oven 45 to 50 minutes, about 40 minutes for 9 inch pans, or till a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
- Place 13 x 9 inch cake in pan on a wire rack and cool thoroughly. Or for round layers, cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes.
- Remove cakes from pans. Cool on wire racks.
- Frost top of cake in 13 x 9 inch pan or frost and fill 9 inch layers with pecan cream cheese icing.
- Pecan cream cheese icing: Combine cream cheese, vanilla and milk. Beat till smooth and fluffy. Gradually add powdered sugar to creamed mixture. Beat till smooth and fluffy. Stir in pecans. If necessary, add additional milk to make frosting of spreading consistency.
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