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"Gift of
Honest Labor" Carrot Cake
   

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Bake Time: 55 minutes

Cool Time: 30 minutes

 

  

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups sugar

  • 3/4 cup vegetable oil

  • 3 eggs

  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

  • 3/4 cup buttermilk

  • 2 cups grated carrots

  • 1 (15 oz.) can crushed pineapple, drained

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour

  • 2 teaspoons baking soda

  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt

  • 1 cup raisins

  • 1/2 cup margarine

  • 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese

  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

  • 4 cups powdered sugar

  • Cherry Pull-N-Peel Twizzlers™

  • 9 drops green food coloring
 
 
Your family will find joy in laboring together to make this deliciously moist cake. The green color is to remind us of Marie Curie's gift in sacrificing her own health to benefit others by her studies with radioactivity
 

Treat Time:

  

Tell your children that you have a wonderful gift for them: the gift of learning honest labor. Then have children perform honest labor, according to their abilities, by helping make the cake by grating carrots, greasing the pan, opening the pineapple, measuring ingredients, etc. Even a very young child, with assistance, can help by pouring ingredients into the bowl. When the cake is done and you are enjoying the fruits of your labor, discuss the joy that comes from the gift of honest labor.

Directions:

  
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla, and buttermilk. Stir in carrots, vanilla, and drained crushed pineapple.
  3. Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Mix on medium for two minutes. Stir in raisins.
  4. Pour batter into a prepared 9x13 pan. Bake for 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean.
  5. Remove from oven, and set aside to cool.
  6. While cake bakes, combine margarine, cream cheese, vanilla, food coloring and powdered sugar. Blend until creamy.
  7. Frost cake while still in the pan. Cut into square size pieces. Top each square with a Pull-N-Peel Twizzler™ bow.
  

Associated Lessons:

“The Joy of Honest Labor"
 

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