Old Fashioned Carrot Cake With Icing
Serves 10
Cake Portion
2 cps flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cp fresh butter softened
1 cup sugar
3 large eggs
2/3 cup milk
3 large carrots grated fine
1/2 cup walnuts
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Icing
1/4 cup soft butter
1 Four ounce package cream cheese soft
1-1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2-1/2 cups confectioners sugar
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Topping
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
2 tablespoons lightly packed brown sugar
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Preheat Oven 350
Grease a round 9 inch cake pan
Mix together flour,cinnamon baking powder,salt.
Beat butter sugar until fluffy add in 1 egg at a time.
Beat well after each egg.
On low speed beat flour mixture and milk into butter mixture.
Stir by hand the carrots into, this combined batter.
Add in the walnuts.
Pour into pan Bake until top springs back when touched or
toothpick test it.
Takes about 35 minutes in center of oven rack.
When done transfer pan to a wire rack to cool 10 minutes.
Then turn cake onto rack to finish cooling.
To prepare icing
Beat butter and creamcheese at medium speed until smooth.
Beat in the vanilla mix until smooth again if too thin add
a few more tablespoons of Powered Sugar.
Place cake on serving dish
Spread the Icing mixture over the top and sides of the cake.
Sprinkle now with the Topping mixture Enjoy
Easy Peanut Butter Fudge
1 cup good quality peanutbutter
1 cup of Butter
1 -16 ounce bag of powdered sugar
1 8x8 square pan buttered lightly
In Large pan
Combind butter and peanutbutter over low heat melting butters.Turn off Burner.
Mix in powdered sugar mix well until smooth push down into greased pan cover,
with waxed paper pressed into top of fudge.
Let cool down then scoore pieces. place fudge in airtight container Enjoy