Best Ever Microwave Carrot Cake
From the McCalls Great American recipe collection, a classic American carrot cake for the microwave.
Yield
10 servingsPrep
10 minCook
30 minReady
60 minTrans-fat Free, Good source of fiber
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cup |
corn oil
|
|
| 1 ¾ | cups |
sugar
|
|
| 3 | large |
eggs
|
|
| 1 ½ | cups |
all-purpose flour
|
|
| 2 | teaspoons |
baking soda
|
|
| ½ | teaspoon |
salt
|
|
| 3 | teaspoons |
cinnamon
|
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
cloves, ground
|
|
| 2 | cups |
carrots
grated |
|
| 1 | cup |
walnuts
chopped |
|
| 8 | ounces |
pineapple, canned, crushed
well drained |
|
| Topping | |||
| ¾ | cup |
coconut, shredded (desiccated)
|
*
|
| Cream cheese frosting | |||
| 8 | ounces |
cream cheese
two packages |
|
| ½ | cup |
powdered sugar
|
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
vanilla extract
|
|
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 237 | ml |
corn oil
|
|
| 414 | ml |
sugar
|
|
| 3 | large |
eggs
|
|
| 355 | ml |
all-purpose flour
|
|
| 1E+1 | ml |
baking soda
|
|
| 2.5 | ml |
salt
|
|
| 15 | ml |
cinnamon
|
|
| 5 | ml |
cloves, ground
|
|
| 473 | ml |
carrots
grated |
|
| 237 | ml |
walnuts
chopped |
|
| 231.2 | ml/g |
pineapple, canned, crushed
well drained |
|
| Topping | |||
| 177 | ml |
coconut, shredded (desiccated)
|
*
|
| Cream cheese frosting | |||
| 231.2 | ml/g |
cream cheese
two packages |
|
| 118 | ml |
powdered sugar
|
|
| 5 | ml |
vanilla extract
|
|
Directions
Beat 1 cup corn oil, sugar and eggs.
Combine 1½ cups flour, baking soda, salt cinnamon and cloves.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well.
Add the shredded carrots, walnuts and drained pineapple to mixture. Blend well.
Pour batter into a microwave safe bundt cake dish,
Microwave, covered, at HIGH power for 3 minutes.
Remove cover.
Microwave for another 12 to 14 minutes at HIGH power,
Let the cake rest for 2 minutes after 5 minutes of microwaving.
Remove cake from the microwave oven. Let rest for 5 minutes.
Remove from pan. Let cool.
Frost cake when cool. Sprinkle with coconut.
Cream Cheese Frosting
In a bowl, thoroughly blend together the cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla. May be doubled if desired.
