Tropical Dream nut Cake
From shirleyoma 16 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 8
Tropical flavors of Coconut, pineapple and carrot moistness! Island dream!
Ingredients
- * The Cake: shopping list
- * 2 cups sugar shopping list
- * 3 cups flour shopping list
- * 1 teaspoon baking soda shopping list
- * 1 teaspoon salt shopping list
- * 1 teaspoon cinnamon shopping list
- * 2 cups grated carrots shopping list
- * 1-1/3 cups vegetable oil shopping list
- * 4 eggs, slighly beaten shopping list
- * 1 cup chopped and toasted walnuts or pecans shopping list
- * 1 - 20 ounce can crushed pineapple, drained shopping list
- * 1 teaspoon vanilla extract shopping list
- * 1 teaspoon lemon extract shopping list
- * 1/2 teaspoon almond extract shopping list
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- * 1/2 cup butter, softened shopping list
- * 1 - 8 ounce cream cheese, softened shopping list
- * 1 - 16 ounce box powdered sugar, sifted shopping list
- * 2 teaspoons vanilla extract shopping list
- * 1 cup chopped and toasted walnuts or pecans shopping list
- * 1 cup flaked coconut shopping list
How to make it
- The Cake:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour two bread loaf pans. Combine dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Add carrots, oil and eggs. Beat well, until mixed. Add other ingredients and stir.
- Put into baking pans. Bake for 1 hour or until done. Completely cool cakes before frosting.
- The Frosting:
- Combine butter and cream cheese; cream until light and fluffy. Add sugar and vanilla, mixing well. Stir in pecans and coconut. Spread on each cake. Store cakes in the refrigerator.
- Note: This cake freezes beautif
- fully. Place on foil covered baking sheet. Freeze until hard. Remove from freezer and wrap in plastic wrap and then in foil. Return to freezer. Unwrap totally and then defrost cake.
The Rating
Reviewed by 14 people-
Looks great. I love carrot cake!
recipediva
in Pittsburgh loved it
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Hey this one sounds really good Shirley, must try making it, great post even though it took me a while to find it LOL What's that old saying Better Late then Never - hmmmmmmmm that's me ;)
henrie
in Savannah loved it
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excellent..!
iffyo
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