I made a fabulous carrot cake last night. It has pineapple, raisins and pecans in it. I made it for a teacher at my son's school. She loved it. Here it is:

1 box Betty Crocker carrot cake mix
1/2 c. water
1/2 c. vegetable oil
4 eggs
1 can (8 oz.) crushed pineapple
1/2 c. chopped nuts
1/2 c. shredded coconut
1/2 c. raisins

Heat oven to 350* (or whatever temp you use for your pans). In large bowl, beat cake mix, water, oil, eggs and pineapple on low for 30 seconds. Beat on medium speed for 2m inutes. Stir in nuts, coconut and raisins. Pour in pans. Bake according to the directions on your pans.

This is the cake that I put in my gallery this morning.

Thanks so much! I love carrot cake. It's my favorite. I've made it with pineapple and it is delicious but I also like it without. How do you think it would be if I subbed the pineapple with fine grated carrots?

Worth a try. The cake mix already has bits of carrot in it.

Really? I didn't know that. I haven't tried using a carrot cake mix yet. I've been doctoring just a regular yellow one or sometimes a spice one. Do you think that would be too much carrot? Or that it might take away from the sweetness? Carrots are usually a little sweet but not as sweet as pineapple.

I've never made a carrot cake except for the one I made last night. I personally don't like carrots. I love pineapples, though. I'm going to try and make it again for my family and see what they say.

flayvurdfun has a receipe on this site for a carrot cake from scratch. It is the only scratch cake I have ever made. It was wonderful and soo easy. It calls for carrot baby food which really added flavor but not the texture of the shredded carrot.

I've got a wonderful carrot cake recipe that my customers just go crazy over. My sister even gets me to make it in cupcakes with an extra "squirt" of cream cheese icing in the center. For convenience, I use the "Matchstix" carrots that are in the produce section already julienned. The are larger than shredding your own carrots, but they work nicely in the cake. My recipe also uses pineapple as well as coconut.

Thanks for the recipe....I always make mine from scratch but it is great to have this recipe as an alternative!