Dad's Carrot Cake

3 cups ap flour
3 cups sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp baking soda
1 tbsp cinnamon
1 1/2 cups corn oil
4 large eggs, beaten
1 tbsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups shelled walnuts, chopped (fresh are best of course)
1 1/2 cups shredded coconut
1 1/3 cups pureed cooked carrots
3/4 cup well-drained crushed pineapple

Grease 2 9-inch layer cake pans lined with waxed paper. Sift dry ingredients in a bowl. Add oil, eggs, vanilla. Beat. Fold in walnuts, coconut, carrots and pineapple. Pour batter into pans. Set on the middle rack of oven. Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes until edges have pulled away from sides. cool on baking rack for 3 hours.

Fill cake layer and frost sides with...

Cream Cheese Frosting

8 oz cream cheese
6 tbsp unsalted butter
3 cups confection sugar
1 tsp vanilla
juice of 1/2 lemon

Cream together cheese & butter. Sift in powdered sugar. Continue beating until fully incorporated (no lumps). Stir in vanilla & lemon juice.

Dust top of cake with powdered sugar for presentation.