Eat half of the cake in one sitting?

could polish it off in half an hour. No need to dirty a knife or plates. Then just slide under the table in a sugar coma.

Cheese cake! Why slow down!

Calories 100 per slice
Serving size 1/2 ounce
Number of servings 1000

it is from the Silver Palate Cookbook.

Butter, for greasing the pan
3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
3 cups sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 1/2 cups corn oil
4 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups shelled walnuts, chopped
1 1/2 cups shredded coconut
1 1/2 cups puréed cooked carrots
3/4 cup drained crushed pineapple
Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe follows)

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease two 9-inch springform pans.

2. Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl. Add the oil, eggs, and vanilla. Beat well. Fold in the walnuts, coconut, carrots, and pineapple.

3. Pour the batter into the prepared pans. Set on the center rack of the oven and bake until the edges have pulled away from the sides and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 50 minutes.

4. Cool on a cake rack for 3 hours. Fill and frost the cake with the cream cheese frosting.

Differences: cinnamon is the only spice although the other ones sound good too.
walnuts instead of pecans
cooked pureed carrots instead of shredded (a pound bag of baby carrots will do it; I steam mine)
add: 1 small can of crushed pineapple, drained well and
1 cup of shredded coconut

Recipe says bake in 2 9 inch pans HA! It fills 3 9 inch pans; however I bought 10 inch pans just for this cake.

and you'll omit a lot of calories. Cakes usually freeze well: I get into the mood to make lemon poppyseed cake every so often, but I cut them into slices and freeze them in 2-4 serving portions. Mr. Retrograde recently made a 9X13" pan of brownies recently. We took some to a gathering today, have had one small piece each for dessert the last two days, and have the rest in the fridge for later.

I've found that in many cake recipes you can use only 3/4 or 1/2 the sugar called for in the recipe - that will cut a lot of calories. IMHO, 4 cups of sugar to 8 oz cream cheese - which is about a cup - is way too much.

Now I want carrot cake. Maybe I’ll make one next weekend when I have people over to help me eat it.