Carrot cake

Do you like carrot cake? It's one of my favorite cakes.... I am always looking for THE best recipe.
You can find recipe's here and here and here also here.
For my carrot cake I used the recipe that my blogfriend Gayle from Garden of Daisies gave me. I can recommand it to you. The cake is delicious!!!
It's the recipe of Gayle's sister, in their family it's a tradition to make this cake for birthday parties at her house.

Birthday Carrot Cake

Sift together dry ingredients
2 cups of flour
2 tsp of baking powder
1 1/2 tsp of baking soda
2 tsp of cinnamon  ( I also used 1 tsp of gingembre)
1 tsp of salt

Beat together
1 1/2 cups of salad oil (I used 1 cup of oil)
2 cups of sugar
4 eggs

Add dry ingredients and mix well

Add:
2 cups of grated carrots
1 cup of crushed or chopped pineapple
1/2 cups chopped nuts  (I used 1 cup of nuts)

Bake in a large rectangular cake pan
Bake for 1 hour in a glass pan at 350

Cream Cheese Icing
Beat together
2 1/3 cups of powdered sugar   (I used St Moret fromage frais 8%)
1/2 stick of margarine ( 1/4 cups)
1 package of cream cheese
1/2 tsp of vanilla