Ingredients

Cake:

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups white sugar
• 2 ½ teaspoons baking soda
• 2 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 cups shredded carrots
• 1 (11 ounce) can mandarin oranges, drained
• 1 ¼ cups vegetable oil
• 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon grated orange zest

Frosting:

• 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 2/3 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13x2-inch baking dish.

Step 2

Whisk flour, sugar, baking soda, ground cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg together in a bowl. Beat carrots, mandarin oranges, oil, eggs, vanilla extract, and orange zest into flour mixture with an electric mixer until batter is smooth, about 2 minutes. Pour batter into prepared baking dish.

Step 3

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes.

Step 4

For frosting, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla in a bowl until smooth; beat in sugar. Spread over cake. Sprinkle with nuts. Decorate as desired.