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February 2010

From Our Partner : Duncan Hines

You'll Need

Cheese Cake Filling

Pineapple Cream Cheese Frosting

Prep and Cook

Soak carrots and raisins in 1 cup HOT tap water, allow to stand for 5 mins. Drain and squeeze out excess water from carrots and raisins.
In mixing bowl add dry mix, 2 eggs, ¼ cup oil. Add well drained carrots, raisins and pineapple. Add coconut and walnuts. Mix well by hand. Spread 2 cups of carrot cake on bottom of a greased 9-9 ½” springform pan. Reserve remaining carrot cake.

Cheesecake Preparation

In large bowl beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until smooth. Beat in eggs.
Spread ½ of the cheesecake batter on top of the carrot cake. Spoon on remaining carrot cake and top with remaining cheese cake batter. Do not marble with knife.
Bake in a 350° preheated oven for 50–60 mins or until cake is set and cooked through.
Cool to room temperature. When cake is cooled frost with Pineapple Cream Cheese frosting. Or top with Duncan Hines Cream Cheese Frosting. Refrigerate for 3 hours and serve chilled.
Beat Cream cheese, butter, vanilla, and pineapple juice until smooth. Beat in powder sugar until smooth. Frost top of cheesecake.

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Posted by Jessica on February 20, 2010 at 01:54 PM

Confused by this recipe…first step is to soak carrots & raisins, but neither is even listed as an ingredient! How much of each are needed???
Posted by Tikka Smiley on February 20, 2010 at 03:23 PM

This recipe is incomplete - the water listed is for “soaking the carrots and raisins”, however, there is no measurement given for either of these ingredients…
I’ve done editing for cookbooks before and understand that there is a huge margin for error in recipe recording!
Posted by Minnow Hamilton on February 20, 2010 at 04:02 PM

Hi Jessica and Tikka,
Thanks so much for submitting these posts - they are great questions and we’re happy to look into this further for you. We contacted our sponsor, Duncan Hines, who provided us with the recipe. The confusion seems to lie with the fact that the carrots and raisins are included in the package - so no need to go buy extra!
Posted by Dianne on February 27, 2010 at 06:07 PM

Two of my favorite things - cheesecake and carrot cake. How can it go wrong? I am looking forward to making this for the next family birthday celebration in April.