Ingredients
- 1 box carrot cake mix (I like Duncan Hines)
- 1 cup pineapple juice
- 1 small can crushed pineapple
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 1/3 cup toasted walnuts
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 1/2 cup toasted coconut flakes
- Frosting:
- 1 1/2 sticks soft butter
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- tsp. vanilla
- 16 oz. cream cheese, room temp
- 2 cups toasted coconut flakes
- optional: toasted walnuts
- or
- 1 can cream cheese frosting
- 2 cups toasted coconut flakes
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Easy Tropical Carrot Cake with Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting
Time: 15 minutes prep, 30 minutes cook
Servings: 12
Directions
- Heat oven to 350 F.
- Grease and flour pan or pans of choice.
- Beat eggs and add other ingredients. Mix well.
- Add batter to pan (s).
- Bake according to box directions.
- Frosting:
- Using a hand mixer, combine vanilla, butter, cream cheese, then add sugar.
- Beat until smooth.
- Frost cake, then sprinkle on coconut
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Summary
Cake mix recipe with homemade frosting, or use canned.
Comments
July 12, 2012Hey Myra! This cake looks scrumptious! I really like the idea of cutting corners and saving time sometimes especially if it doesn't take away from the overall effect of the recipe. Great Job! I wish I had a piece right now! Alas, I digress.1 reply
July 4, 2012Hey Andra,
I love grapes, but am not crazy about raisins, for some reason.
Enjoy!
Myra
July 4, 2012This sounds yummy! I'm definitely going to try this...and I may have to add some golden raisins to the mix, because I LOVE raisins in my carrot cake. Thanks for the idea of coconut in the mix. Sounds amazing.
