Classic Carrot Cake Recipe

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I'm grossly late with this week's HCB post. The unimaginable happened; I couldn't find my cookbook! It finally turned up last night; it was hidden under a pile of papers. I need these cupcakes for our June birthday party at today's staff meeting; I was about to resort to my usual carrot cake recipe from Silver Palate, but I'm so glad that I got to try Rose's version.

The Silver Palate recipe calls for a lot of add-ins: nuts, coconut, pineapple, and it makes a great cake. Rose's recipe calls for raisins and a secret ingredient, that I (being a bit of a blabber mouth) will reveal if you keep reading.

The cake begins with the usual two step process, the dry ingredients are sifted together. The wet…