Mrs. v's Foods Class: Carrot cake - recipe from a friend

Preheat oven, oil and flour pans

Dry ingredients, except sugar in the bowl.

I added vanilla into the oil, then added the eggs to the liquid measuring cup.

Preparing more ingredients.

These thin layers only needed 15 minutes to cook.

I let the cakes cool for 15 mins then flipped them upside down. They stayed like this overnight. They fell our of the pan and being covered by the pan kept them from drying out. The plastic cake plate liners are from IKEA (they are OLD).

Cream cheese and butter at room temperature. I sifted the icing sugar.

It took extra icing sugar to get a thick icing.

Flip the cake UPSIDE DOWN, so the rounded top flattens out. for 2 layers I would have trimmed off any high points, then flipped the cake over.

A thin layer of icing between the layers. To avoid pulling crumbs, put a blob of icing on the cake and spread it without lifting the spatula.

Do not lift the spatula unless there is icing under the blade. This is an off set spatula.

If your cake layers are uneven, look at the layers and alternate the thickness to get an even cake

the cake plate was a wedding gift 34 years ago!

Cracked cake? Don't worry, you are covering it with icing. If you think it will shake apart, put bamboo skewers (4) through all layers to stabilize it, remove before serving. I place strips of parchment paper to catch crumbs.

Put blobs of icing on the top, then connect them, less crumbs will be pulled.

Connect the icing blobs and run your hand over the sides of the cake to knock off crumbs.

Most directions have you ice the side, then the top. I find it easier to push extra icing over the edge of the top, then decorate the sides.

If you pull crumbs wipe them off before continuing to ice.

If there only a few crumbs you can knock them off. Notice I did secure the cake with the skewers.we call the sides a crumb coat. I put the cake in the fridge to chill before I finished the sides.