Easy carrot cake

1. Beat sugar, eggs, karo and oil until light and fluffy.
2. ***be sure you beat this a long time.
3. I beat the entire time i grate carrots.
4. Add rest of ingredients in order given.
5. *do not beat much after adding flour.
6. Pour into 3-8"pans and bake at 350 degrees until, when touched lightly with your finger, the cake barely springs back up. Notes: only one recipe will fit in the ordinary mixer bowl at one time.
7. -2 mixes makes 1-16" layer, or 1-12",plus 1-8" layer, or 2-10" layers plus 1-6"layer.
8. A 12" and 6" 2-layer cake requires over 1-2lb bag of carrots and 3 recipes.
9. One recipe makes 1-10" plus 2-6" layers.
10. One recipe is not quite enough for 1-14" layer 2 mixes makes 1-14" layer plus 1-10" layer *one bag of carrots makes 2 recipes and a little over for a 2-layer 14",10",6" cake, use 5 lbs carrots & 4 cups pecans+5 recipes.
11. Also need: 3 pks carrots, ½ bags brown sugar, 2 pks pecans, over 1 qt crisco oil. Line bottoms of pans with baker"s parchment/grease & flour the parchment too! cake tends to stick in the pans.