Carrot Cake Silver Palate Recipe 45

SILVER PALATE CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F Grease two 9-inch springform pans.
• Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl. Add the oil, eggs, and vanilla. Beat well. Fold in the walnuts, coconut, carrots, and pineapple.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pans. Set on the center rack of the oven and bake until the edges have pulled away from the sides and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 50 minutes.
• Cool on a cake rack for 3 hours. Fill and frost the cake with the cream cheese frosting.
• Cream together the cream cheese and butter in a mixing bowl.
• Slowly sift in the confectioners' sugar and continue beating until fully incorporated. The mixture should be free of lumps.
• Stir in the vanilla, and lemon juice if desired.

CARROT CAKE (SILVER PALATE) RECIPE - (4/5)

Steps:

• Method 1 Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter two 9 inch cake pans. Cut out rounds of wax paper and place at bottoms of cake pans. Butter the top of the wax paper rounds. 2 Sift dry ingredients into a bowl. Add oil, eggs, and vanilla. Beat well. Fold in chopped walnuts, coconut, carrots and pineapple. 3 Pour batter into pans. Set on the middle rack of oven and bake for 45-50 minutes (shift positions of cakes front-to-back if necessary about halfway through), until edges have pulled away from sides and a toothpick or sharp knife tip inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool on a cake rack. 4 To prepare frosting, cream together the cream cheese and butter in a mixing bowl. Slowly sift in the confectioners sugar and beat until mixture is free of lumps. Stir in vanilla and lemon juice. 5 Once cakes have cooled, frost. Sprinkle top with chopped walnuts or arrange walnut halves in a crown around the top. Serves 12-16.