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Carrot Cake:
Ingredients:
3 cups grated carrots
4 eggs
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
2 cups white sugar
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 cup golden raisins
1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
- Beat together the eggs, oil, and white sugar. Blend mixture
for thirty seconds.
- Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and
spices. Add the carrots and raisins. Pour egg mixture into dry
ingredients, and mix well.
- Pour batter into well greased 10 inch tube or Bundt pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 60 to 70 minutes.
Cool cake on wire rack, and then refrigerate until completely
cooled.
- To make Cream Cheese Glaze: Blend together confectioners'
sugar, cream cheese, corn syrup, and vanilla. Spread over cooled
cake.
New Year's Champagne Cake:
Makes: 10 servings Prep: 20 minutes Bake: 30 minutes Cool: 10
minutes

Ingredients:
1 2-layer-size white cake mix
Champagne or sparkling wine
2 16-ounce cans strawberry frosting
Fresh strawberries
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and
lightly flour two 8x1-1/2-inch round cake pans; set aside.
2. Prepare cake mix according to package directions, except replace
water
with
Champagne. Spread batter into prepared pans. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes
or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in
pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove cake layers from pans. Cool
thoroughly on wire racks.
3. Place one cake layer, bottom side up,
on a serving platter. Spread with about 1/2 can of frosting. Top with
second cake layer, top side up. Spread top and sides of cake with
remaining frosting. Garnish with strawberries. Makes 10 servings.
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