This came from a friend who swears by it.

Gwendolyne Wood’s Carrot cake

Ingredients:

• 2 Cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1½ Cups veggitable oil
• 2 Cups flour
• 2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tsp. nutmeg
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1½ tsp. vanilla extract
• 3 Cups (heaping) grated or ground carrots
• 1 Cup chopped nuts (optional)

Preheat oven to 325°F

Cream together sugar, eggs, oil

Sift together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, salt

Hand stir in carrots, vanilla, and nuts

Bake in:
Two (2) 9-inch baking pans for ~40 minutes
   -OR-
One (1) 9x13-inch pan for ~60 minutes.

Ice with Gwendolyne’s cream cheese icing

Original recipe