Description

Make an easy dessert starting with a boxed spice cake mix and then adding freshly shredded carrots, orange juice, crushed pineapple, OJ and a few other ingredients. Top it off with a cream cheese frosting and you'll have a scrumptious, moist carrot cake w

Ingredients

• Cake:
• 1 box Duncan Hines Perfectly Moist Spice cake mix*
• 1/2 c. water
• 1/2 c. orange juice
• 3 large eggs
• 1/3 c. vegetable oil
• 1/4 c. crushed pineapple, drained
• 1/3 c. shredded coconut
• 1 1/4 c. shredded carrots, using the larger grating side (NOT store bought shredded carrots)
• 1/2 c. pecans, chopped
• Frosting:
• 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 c. butter, softened
• 5 c. powdered sugar
• 2 t. vanilla extract

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease sides and bottoms of two 9" cake pans. **
2. Cake:
3. Make the spice cake following the directions on the box, (water, eggs, oil) except substitute orange juice for half of the water. Mix until thoroughly blended. Add pineapple and coconut; stir. Add carrots and pecans; mix.