Screwdriver carrot cake

10 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
5 tablespoons Grated orange rind
½ cup Vodka
1 cup Butter, softened
2 cups Sugar
4 Eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon Vanilla
3 cups Flour, sifted
2 cups Powdered sugar
2 teaspoons Orange juice
½ teaspoon Orange extract
3¼ teaspoon Baking powder
½ teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
¼ teaspoon Nutmeg
¼ teaspoon Allspice
1½ cup Carrots, raw, grated
½ cup Pecans, chopped
4 teaspoons Vodka
2 tablespoons Light corn syrup

Directions

CAKE

GLAZE

Stir grated orange rind into vodka and set aside. Cream butter, gradually add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in beaten eggs and add vanilla. Sift the dry ingredients together, then blend into the batter, alternately with orange-vodka mix. Add carrots and chopped pecans. Bake in buttered, floured 10" tube or Bundt pan in preheated 350~F oven until cake tests done, about 1 hour. Cool in pan on rack for 15 minutes, turn out, finish cooling on rack. Make glaze by combining powdered sugar, orange juice, vodka, orange extract and light corn syrup and beating until smooth. Spoon glaze over top of cooled cake, then spread evenly with knife. If desired, sprinkle with more chopped nuts.

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