Captivating Slow Cooker Carrot Cake

Carrot cake is so delicious – well worth the effort of grating the carrots. You can serve this slow cooker version with whipped cream, or with cream cheese frosting. There are now some excellent pre-packaged cream cheese frostings available at the supermarket. If your children haven’t tried carrot cake, they won’t believe they’re eating carrots!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• ¼ cup water
• ⅓ cup vegetable oil
• 1 ½ cups flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup grated carrots
• Whipped topping

Steps:

1. If starting with whole carrots, peel and grate them until you have 1 cupful.
2. Using a large mixing bowl, cream together sugar, eggs, water, and oil.
3. Mix in flour, vanilla, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon. Only blend until everything is combined.
4. Use a spoon to stir in the grated carrots until evenly distributed.
5. Spray inside of slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray.
6. Pour in batter and spread it evenly in the slow cooker.
7. Place a thickness of 4 or 5 paper towels across the top of the slow cooker and place slow cooker lid on top of the paper towels.
8. Cook on Low setting for 2 hours and 15 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
9. Serve with whipped cream when cool.

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