Carrot cake!

Every year on Valentines Day, I make Adrian a heart shaped cake! Usually I make a chocolate one, but this year I wanted too do something different. I asked Adrian what kinda cake he wanted, and he wanted Carrot Cake, not having a carrot cake recipe I went onto Pinterest and found one!! It was so yummy! I decided to share the recipe. :) Enjoy!

Ingredients

Cake:
2c. sugar
1c. Oil
4 Beaten eggs
3c. grated carrots
2c. flour
1tsp. salt
2tsp. baking soda
2tsp. cinnamon
1/2c. coconut
1/2c. nuts (almonds)

Frosting:
2 8oz. packages of cream cheese, softened
1 cup of butter
5 cups of powdered sugar

Make It!

1. In a mixing bowl combine the sugar, oil and eggs. Mix for about 2 minutes.
2. Add the carrots, mix for 10 seconds to incorporate
3. In a separate bowl, combine all the dry ingredients. ( not the coconut, and nuts)
4. Slowly stir the dry ingredients into the wet ones.
5. Add the coconut and nuts.
6. Pour batter into 2 greased round or square 9 inch cake pans.
( this recipe doesn't work well in a 9x13 pan. The center has a hard time cooking and will be mushy and fall.)
7. Bake at 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
8. Cool cakes on wire rack.

Frosting

Beat the cream cheese and butter together in a mixing bowl, for about 2 mintues, if the frosting is too thick, you can add just a touch of hot water.

When the cakes are cool, frost, and enjoy!