Recipe - Carrot Cake With Marmalade Cream Cheese Frost

2 cup Unbleached all purpose flour
2 teaspoon Baking soda
2 teaspoon Baking powder
2 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
One half teaspoon Salt
4 lg Eggs
Three fourths cup Vegetable oil
Three fourths cup Sugar
2/3 cup Packed golden brown sugar
One half cup Orange marmalade
One half cup Orange juice
3 cup (lightly packed) grated
Peeled carrots
Three fourths cup Chopped toasted walnuts

FROSTING
4 8oz packages cream cheese
Room temperature
2 cup Powdered sugar
1 One fourth cup (about) orange marmalade
6 tablespoon (Three fourths stick) unsalted butter
Room temperature
2 teaspoon Grated orange peel
1 One fourth cup Finely chopped toasted
Walnuts (about 6 oz)

FOR CAKE: Preheat oven to 350degree F. Butter and flour two
9inchdiameter cake pans with 2inchhigh sides. Sift first 5 ingredients
into medium bols. Beat eggs, oil, sugars, marmalade and juice in large bowl
until blended. Stir in dry ingredients. Fold in carrots and nuts. Divide
batter between cake pans. Bake until tester inserted into centers comes out
clean, about 40 minutes. Transfer cakes to racks; cool 15 minutes. Turn out
cakes onto racks; cool completely.

FOR FROSTING: Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese and sugar in large
bowl until smooth. Add Three fourths cup marmalade, butter and orange peel and beat
just until smooth. If necessary, cover and chill until firm enough to
spread.

Place 1 cake on plate. Spread with One fourth cup marmalade. Spread 1 cup
frosting over. Top with second cake. Spoon 2 cups frosting into pastry bag
fitted with large star tip. Spread remaining frosting smoothly over top and
sides of cake.

Pipe frosting in 4 parallel lines atop cake in opposite direction, forming
lattice. Press 1 cup nuts onto sides of cake. Pipe ring of frosting around
top edge of cake. Stir One fourth cup marmalade to loosen; spoon some into 1 row
of lattice diamonds. Spoon some remaining nuts into next row of diamonds.
Repeat, alternating marmalade and nuts, filling rows completely. (Can be
made 2 days ahead. Cover with cake dome and chill.) SOURCE: BON APPETIT,
May '93

Posted to EATL Digest 23 Sep 96

Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 03:27:22 0500

From: LD Goss ldgoss@METRONET.COM