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Divorce Carrot Cake

Adapted from Reddit, where a reader claims her dad asked her to make her mom's carrot cake even though they'd been divorced for years.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Carrot Cake, Divorce
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Servings 12
Author Anna
Cost 5

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour (270 grams)
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup oil
  • ¾ cup honey (see note about adding maple syrup)
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 can crushed pineapple, drained
  • 2 cups grated carrots, slightly heaping (220 grams)
  • 1 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
  • cup walnuts finely chopped
  • cup raisins

Cream Cheese Frosting

  • 16 oz cream cheese softened (480 grams)
  • ½ cup butter, salted or unsalted okay softened (114 grams)
  • 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup powdered sugar plus more as needed (you WILL need more) sifted (120 grams)
  • lemon juice to taste

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 F.
  • Grease and flour two 8-inch round cake pans.
  • Stir the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon together in a medium bowl.
  • Combine oil, honey, eggs and drained pineapple in a large bowl. If you want, you can use the juice from the drained pineapple to soak the raisins.
  • Mix dry ingredients, plus carrots, coconut, walnuts and raisins together into the wet ingredients until well-combined.
  • Pour into cake pans and bake for 45 minutes.

Cream Cheese Frosting

  • Make sure all ingredients are at room temperature (not too cool) and slightly softened. Beat together the cream cheese, butter and sugar until smooth, then beat in the vanilla.
  • Scrape down side of the bowl and continue beating, adding lemon juice to taste.

Notes

I use 8 tablespoons of honey and 4 tablespoons of maple syrup just to cut the honey flavor and make it more interesting.   The original recipe calls for just honey.