Cake:

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 ¼ cup oil
• 4 sm eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla

Beat eggs & vanilla.  Mix in sugar & oil.

• 2 cups flour
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp real salt or 1 tsp imitation salt
• 1 ¼ tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp soda

Mix dry ingredients together then add to wet mixture. Fold in carrots.

• 3 cups grated carrots.

Divide batter evenly into 3 round cake pans.  Either well greased pans or cut wax paper and line bottom. Bake at 350 for 25 -35 minutes.

Cream Cheese Frosting:

• 1 – 8 oz. cream cheese
• 1 stick butter
• 1 tsp vanilla

Let cream cheese & butter soften to room temperature.  Mix together cream cheese, butter & vanilla.  

• 1 box powder sugar (16 oz.)
• 1 cup chopped pecans

Add powdered sugar to wet mixture.  Fold in pecans last.  Ice all layers of cake.

Source: Doris Cooper