Crites Family Stuff

Description

Be careful when you make this, you might just eat the whole thing yourself!

Ingredients for 8 servings

• 16 oz cream cheese, room temperature
• .25 cup sugar
• 2.5 tsp vanilla
• 1 tbsp flour
• 3 eggs

Cake:

• .75 cup oil
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1.5 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1.5 tsp cinnamon
• .25 tsp allspice
• Dash nutmeg
• 8.5 oz can crushed pineapple, packed in juice, drained well (reserve juice)
• 1 cup grated carrots
• .5 cup coconut
• .5 cup chopped walnuts or golden raisins, optional

Frosting:

• 2 oz cream cheese, softened
• 1 tbsp butter, softened
• 1.75 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tbsp reserved pineapple juice

Steps

1. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla until smooth. Beat in flour and eggs until smooth. Set aside.
2. Prepare cake: In a bowl, combine oil, sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Mix well. Stir in dry ingredients, mixing well. Stir in drained pineapple, carrots, coconut, and walnuts. Spread 1 1/2 cups cake batter over bottom of greased 9 inch spring form pan. Drop half of the cream cheese mixture over batter by spoonful, top with the remaining cake batter. Drop by spoonful the remaining cream cheese mixture and then spread it evenly with a knife. Do not marble. Bake in 300F preheated oven for 70-80 minutes or until cake is set and cook through. Cool to room temperature, then refrigerate. When cake is cold, prepare frosting and frost top only. Refrigerate 3-4 hours before serving.
3. Frosting: Beat frosting ingredients until smooth. Frost cooled cake.

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