Tropical Carrot Cake I Made It Ii

Tropical Carrot Cake

DIZ3 4 years ago
Recipe: Tropical Carrot Cake
Submitted By: Diva4christ
Date: May 27, 2019

***May 2019 Group Recipe Challenge--Tropical Food***

First, I must confess that I am NOT a cake baker. I just don’t have the knack for it and no desire to try to get better. lol! (We rarely eat cake.) I’m pretty sure I over mixed the batter. When it comes to cakes, I like the easy ones that are made in a 13 x 9 pan. We liked everything about the cake except the frosting. It’s a heavy, sweet, sticky frosting. I had a hard time spreading it over the cake without getting crumbs in it. Hubby has been scraping it off and won’t eat it. It doesn’t have butter like most cream cheese recipes. Don’t know if that is an error on the submitter’s part or if it really doesn't use butter. Seems like I’ve seen other recipes that do not use any shortening, but can’t say I’ve tried one. The cake itself has a good flavor with lots of cinnamon. It’s the typical carrot cake made with pineapple and has a heavy, dense, moist crumb. I omitted the raisins because I don’t like raisins baked in cakes. I’m glad I did. The fruit/nut to cake ratio is just right. I actually baked this for hubby. He never turns down carrot cake. He is eating this one, just without the frosting. lol!
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chuckieb 4 years ago said:

I do like a good carrot cake. I checked out the ingredients in this cream cheese frosting and indeed I think there's way too much icing sugar. Lovely photo.

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Cosmicmother 4 years ago said:

YUM! Awesome photo Diz, it's mouth watering!
Carrot Pineapple Cake with coconut is the only carrot cake I make, it's my all time favorite! This is identical to a recipe I used to make but it has no raisins. I changed it a lot over the years--it was by Marc Boyer on AR and all my scribbles on it read as: ( leave out the buttermilk, use 1 cup br. sugar, 1/2 cup white sugar, double the pineapple, only use 1 tsp cinnamon and a pinch of clove, allspice and nutmeg, 1 tsp of b.soda and 2 tsp. b.powder). So basically a different cake now but we've eaten this way for years and love it. I also add 1/4 cup of butter to the cream cheese frosting and use 2-3 cups of icing sugar.
Too bad the frosting was wasted, I hate it when that happens! I use to leave out the butter and use pineapple juice to get it creamy--it's good but it would never set up in the fridge so the 1/4 cup of butter really helps. :)

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DIZ3 4 years ago said:

Thank You, Chuckieb! I agree with you about too much sugar.

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DIZ3 4 years ago said:

Thank You, Cosmicmother! Your recipe sounds good with all of the extra spices. YUM! I like this carrot cake because I love anything with coconut. This recipe is almost identical to my nieces recipe except hers is 1-1/4c vegetable oil, no buttermilk, no raisins, and pecans instead of walnuts. Hers is really, really good! The texture of hers is different and I don't notice the pineapple, carrots, or coconut. I'm guessing she puts it in a food processor. Even though I like this kind, my favorite is still my Grandmother's plain old fashioned carrot cake.

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mommyluvs2cook 4 years ago said:

I don't feel like I'm the greatest at desserts either Diz, lol. My family is great about making me think so! Too bad the icing wasn't great, but it sure does looks great!

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LindaLMT 4 years ago said:

Beautiful photo DIZ! I too don't bake much anymore because I don't need to be eating such stuff. I do love carrot cakes made with pineapple. Bummer on the icing not working.

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DIZ3 4 years ago said:

Thank You, Mummyluvs2cook & LindaLMT!

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Good4U 4 years ago said:

Could you possibly write out your whole recipe for carrot cake, Shona? It sounds so delicious to me!

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