Ultimate Carrot Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 24
- Yields:
-
1 3 layer cake
- Serves:
- 8-10
ingredients
-
Cake recipe
- 473.18 ml all-purpose flour
- 9.85 ml baking soda
- 2.46 ml salt
- 9.85 ml ground cinnamon
- 3 large eggs
- 473.18 ml sugar
- 177.44 ml vegetable oil
- 177.44 ml buttermilk
- 9.85 ml vanilla extract
- 473.18 ml grated carrots
- 226.79 g can crushed pineapple, drained
- 99.22 g can flaked coconut
- 236.59 ml chopped pecans or 236.59 ml walnuts
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Buttermilk Glaze
- 236.59 ml sugar
- 7.39 ml baking soda
- 118.29 ml buttermilk
- 118.29 ml unsalted butter
- 14.79 ml light corn syrup
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Cream Cheese Frosting
- 177.44 ml unsalted butter, softened
- 226.79 g package cream cheese, softened
- 85.04 g package cream cheese, softened
- 709.77 ml sifted powdered sugar
- 7.39 ml vanilla extract
- 4.92 ml vanilla extract
directions
- For the cake:.
- Line 3 (9-inch) round cakepans with wax paper; lightly grease and flour wax paper. Set pans aside.
- Stir together first 4 ingredients.
- Beat eggs and next 4 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Add flour mixture, beating at low speed until blended. Fold in carrot and next 3 ingredients.Pour batter into prepared cakepans.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Drizzle Buttermilk Glaze evenly over layers, cool in pans on wire racks 15 minutes. Remove from pans, and cool completely.
- on wire racks. Spread Cream Cheese Frosting between layers on top and sides of cake.
- For the Buttermilk Glaze:.
- Bring first 5 ingredients to a boil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Boil, stirring often, 4 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in vanilla.
- For the Cream Cheese Frosting:.
- Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Add powdered sugar and vanilla; beat until smooth.
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