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Sharing Special Holiday Recipes: Celebrating Easter and Passover By Sheila Turner-Hilliard Each year, followers of Christian faiths close out Lent by attending church services and gathering with friends and family for spring-inspired celebrations. There are many classic Easter traditions you can incorporate this year as you celebrate this April 17th. Some traditions like visiting the Easter bunny or attending an egg hunt may already be a part of your holiday plans, but perhaps this
is the year you’d like to try a new tradition or even a new recipe. Aside from the traditional Easter dinner of ham, rack of lamb, scalloped potatoes and asparagus, why not try your hand at homemade carrot cake? It’s an easy-to-prepare, delicious crowd-pleasing dessert topped with your very own cream cheese frosting!
Carrot Cake Cake Ingredients
• Unsalted butter for the pan • 2½ cups all-purpose flour, plus extra for the pan • 12 oz grated carrots (approx. 6 med. carrots) • 1 tsp baking powder • 1 tsp baking soda • ¼ tsp ground allspice
Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients • • • • •
¼ tsp ground cinnamon ¼ tsp ground nutmeg ½ tsp salt 1¼ cups sugar ¼ cup firmly packed dark brown sugar • 3 large eggs • 6 oz plain yogurt • 6 oz vegetable oil
Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan and line the bottom with parchment paper.
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8 oz cream cheese 2 oz unsalted butter, room temperature 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 cups powdered sugar
Directions Combine the cream cheese and butter in a bowl, and mix until blended, then add the vanilla extract. Slowly add the powdered sugar, and mix until smooth. Refrigerate the frosting for 10 minutes before spreading it on the cake. Serves 8.
Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices with a hand mixer or a food processor. Add this mixture to the shredded carrots,and stir until the carrots are coated with flour. Combine sugar, brown sugar, eggs and yogurt in a bowl and mix with the vegetable oil.
Enjoy!
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Add this mixture to the carrot mixture and stir until combined.
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Pour into the cake pan and bake for 45 minutes at 350º. Reduce heat to 325 degrees and bake for another 15 minutes. Let the cake cool for 20 minutes, remove from the pan and allow to cool completely before frosting the cake.
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