Recipe(tried): Heavenly Carrot Cake, Seventeen Magazine 1983

I know exactly the recipe you are looking for since it is my all-time favorite carrot cake recipe and I've been making it for years. I even emailed Seventeen magazine last month to ask if they had the spread with photo somewhere... I haven't heard back from them, but I do have the recipe.

HEAVENLY CARROT CAKE

FOR THE CAKE:
3 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups butter, melted (yep, 3 sticks)
2 cups grated carrots
1 (8 oz) can crushed pineapple & juice
1 1/2 cups chopped nuts
2 tsp vanilla
3 eggs

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour 2 (9-inch) round cake pans.

Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and set aside.

Beat sugar and butter together. Add flour mixture little by little. Add carrots, pineapple and juice, nuts and vanilla and mix well. Add eggs one by one beating between each addition. Pour into prepared cake pans.

Bake 45 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes and remove from pans to a rack to cool completely.

FOR THE FILLING:
(I double the filling recipe, this is a single portion, but I find it needed more)

Mix together and set aside:
3 oz cream cheese, softened
2 tbsp sugar
1 cup chopped nuts

FOR THE FROSTING:

Mix together and set aside:
8 oz cream cheese, softened
14 oz powdered sugar

TO ASSEMBLE AND DECORATE THE CAKE:
When cake layers are cool, place one on a serving dish. Put all the filling on the top, spread out evenly. Add second layer and cover with frosting. If you are decorating, then:

DECORATING:
Separate 1/2 cup of frosting. To remaining frosting, add 4 drops yellow food coloring and 4 drops red. Frost cake (over a blue ribbon if desired*) and decorate with the white frosting.

*This last part is, if you remember the photo, the way the cake was presented. I am hoping to get a photo from the magazine, but it was all peach colored with a blue ribbon around the cake (covering the gap between the two layers) and then little white dots on the top and on the edges of the ribbon....

Let me know how it turns out!

Makes 1 (2-layer) cake
Source: Seventeen Magazine, 1983