Hazel’s Carrot Cake

This is Hazel Talley’s delicious recipe, which Rosemary Talley still makes for our birthdays at the farm!

Ingredients

Cake

  • 4 eggs
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 ¼ cups Wesson oil
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ¼ tsp. cinnamon
  • ½ tsp. allspice
  • 3 ½ cups grated carrots
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts

Cream Cheese Frosting

  • 1/8 oz. package cream cheese
  • 1 cube butter
  • 1 box sifted powdered sugar
  • 1 cup whipping cream, whipped

Directions

  1. For cake, cream sugar and eggs until dissolved. Add oil to egg mixture.
  2. Sift dry ingredients together then add to egg mixture. Mix well, then fold in carrots and nuts.
  3. Bake in three 9-inch pans that have been greased and floured and lined with wax paper.
  4. Bake at 375 for 35 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes before removing.
  5. For cream cheese frosting, cream together cream cheese and butter. Beat in powdered sugar. Fold in whipped cream.
Source: Hazel Talley

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