Recipe for cooking screwdriver carrot cake

Recipes Made with other Beverages :: Cakes Made with Liqueurs

Screwdriver Carrot Cake

5 Tbsp. grated orange rind
1/2 c. vodka
1 c. butter, softened
2 c. sugar
4 eggs, beaten
1 tsp. vanilla extract or flavoring
3 c. all-purpose flour, sifted
3 1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. allspice
1 1/2 c. carrots, grated
1/2 c. pecans, chopped

Glaze
2 c. powdered’ sugar
2 tsp. orange juice
1/2 tsp. orange extract or flavoring
4 tsp. vodka
2 Tbsp. light corn syrup

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Stir grated orange rind into vodka and set aside.

Cream butter; gradually add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in beaten eggs and add vanilla extract or flavoring. Sift the dry ingredients together, then blend into the batter alternately with orange rind-vodka mixture. Add carrots and chopped pecans. Bake in buttered, floured 10-in. tube or Bundt pan until cake tests done, about 1 hour.

Cool in pan on rack for 15 mins., turn out, then finish cooling on rack.

Make Glaze by combining powdered’ sugar, orange juice, vodka, orange extract or flavoring and light corn syrup and beating until smooth. Spoon glaze over top of cooled cake, then spread evenly with knife. If desired, sprinkle with more chopped nuts.