Carrot Cake with Easy Cream Cheese Frosting

Got carrots and cream cheese??  Good, you're halfway there.  What about a husband who has been hounding you for carrot cake??  Great - now you have the motivation (and the promise that you won't be the only one eating this!)

 

Carrot Cake (recipe courtesy of Mama Grazer)

Dry Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 1.5 cups sugar
• 1 tsp b. soda
• 1 tsp b. powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon

Wet Ingredients:

• 1 cup canola oil
• 3 cups grated carrots
• 4 eggs

Add wet ingredients to dry - mix well.  Pour into a greased 9 x 13 inch pan and bake at 350 for 40 minutes.  Let cool completely before frosting or you will wind up with a mess....trust me, this isn't my first rodeo.

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Now for the part most of you have been waiting for: the cream cheese frosting.  This is the best frosting I have ever had.  My mom spoiled me with this simple recipe and it's the only type of frosting I will ever make for my own children.

Easy Cream Cheese Frosting

• 1 eight ounce block of cream cheese
• 2 T butter
• 1/4 cup honey or maple syrup
• powdered sugar to taste (depends on how sweet you like it)

 See that piece missing?  

I went to the restroom and someone went after my cake before I was done taking photos....

Turns out, he had the right idea.  Perfect afternoon snack.