Daddy S Favorite Carrot Cake Recipes

FAVORITE CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In mixer bowl, beat sugars and oil together. Add eggs, carrots, and vanilla, beating until smooth. Add flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nuts, beating well. Pour into a greased springform pan with 4-inch sides. Bake 1 hour. Cool 10 minutes and release cake from springform. Frost by cutting cake into 2 layers. Frosting: Beat cream cheese and butter together until fluffy. Gradually add sugar until thoroughly blended. Add vanilla and lemon juice. If needed, add drops of milk to frosting until of spreading consistency. Makes enough frosting for filling, top, and sides of cake. Fun Fact: Pocahontas' life has formed the basis of many legends. Because she never learned to write, the thoughts, feelings, and motives of the historical Pocahontas remain largely unknown. Her story became the source of much romantic myth-making in the centuries following her death. The Walt Disney Company's 1995 animated feature Pocahontas presents a highly-romanticized and fictional view of a love affair between Pocahontas and John Smith, in which Pocahontas teaches Smith the value of respect for nature. However, the records of the Jamestown, Virginia, indicate that Pocahontas had only a friendship with Captain John Smith (having saved his life more than once), and actually married John Rolfe. The marriage helped to establish peaceful relations between the Indians and the English, and therefore played a significant role in American history.

MY FAVORITE CARROT CAKE WITH MAGIC TOPPING

Steps:

• Beat together eggs, sugar, and salad oil.
• Add flour, salt, soda, and cinnamon.
• To the batter add coconut, walnuts, pineapple, carrots and vanilla. Mix well and pour into a greased 9 x 13 pan and Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until knife inserted in middle comes out clean.
• Magic Topping.
• Combine all ingredients in medium saucepan over medium heat. Cook stirring constantly until sugar melts. Spread on top of warm Carrot cake and Bake at 375° for 10 to 12 minutes.

DAD'S FAVORITE CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease a large casserole dish.
• In a skillet over medium heat, cook the ground beef until evenly brown. Drain grease. Mix in garlic, and season with salt and pepper. Stir in spinach, and cook until heated through. Stir in the uncooked egg noodles, and transfer to the prepared casserole dish. Mix in cream of mushroom soup and milk, and sprinkle with cheese.
• Bake 45 minutes in the preheated oven, until bubbly.

DADDY'S FAVORITE CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Combine flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. In a separate bowl, beat eggs, sugar and oil.
• With mixer running on low speed, slowly add the flour mixture.
• Blend in vanilla, carrot, raisins (if adding) and pecans.
• Pour batter into a well greased 8 x 12 inch pan.
• Bake in 325°F oven for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• When cake is cool, spread with cream cheese icing. When cake is frosted, sprinkle a small handful of pecans on top of cake.
• Note: Chopped peanuts or walnuts may be substituted for pecans.
• Note: I double this recipe and use a 13x9 pan.
• Note: Prep time does not include shredding the carrots.