Name: Best Carrot Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: american
Ingredients: 2 1/2 (325g) cups all-purpose flour; 2 teaspoons baking soda; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg OR ground; 1 teaspoon kosher salt; 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger; 1/2 cup unsalted butter (at room temperature); 1/2 cup neutral oil ((such as avocado, vegetable or canola oil) ); 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract; 1 cup granulated sugar; 1 cup brown sugar; 4 large eggs; 2/3 cup buttermilk (shaken); 2 1/2 cups (250 grams) grated carrots ((from 4 large carrots) ); 1 1/2 cups roughly chopped walnuts; 3/4 cup unsalted butter (straight from the fridge cut into cubes); 8 ounces cream cheese (at room temperature); 1 teaspoons pure vanilla extract; 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt; 3 3/4 cups powdered sugar (divided ); 1 1/2 tablespoons heavy cream

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Best Carrot Cake

Nutrition Facts

Per serving · recipe makes 12 · 1h 10m total

Servings

Calories

41% of a 2,000 cal day

816KCAL

Protein

10g20% DV

% DAILY VALUE

Total Fat48g

61%

Saturated18g

92%

Unsaturated30g

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Total Carbs90g

33%

Fiber5g

16%

Total Sugars67g

—

incl. Added Sugars64g

100%

Starch18g

—

Sodium555mg

24%

% Daily Value is based on a 2,000 calorie day.

A tender, three-layer carrot cake loaded with walnuts and warm spices, topped with brown butter cream cheese frosting. Moist and richly spiced, it's the ultimate celebration cake.

Ingredients

12 SERVINGS

Carrot Cake Layers:

325 gall-purpose flour — 2½ cup
2 tspbaking soda
2 tspground cinnamon
1 tspfreshly grated nutmeg — or ground nutmeg
1 tspkosher salt
½ tspground ginger
½ cupunsalted butter — room temperature
½ cupneutral oil
2 tsppure vanilla extract
1 cupgranulated sugar
1 cupbrown sugar
4large eggs
⅔ cupbuttermilk — shaken
250 ggrated carrots — 2½ cup
1½ cupswalnuts — roughly chopped

Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting:

¾ cupunsalted butter
8 ozcream cheese — at room temperature
1 tsppure vanilla extract
½ tspkosher salt
3¾ cupspowdered sugar — divided
1½ tbspheavy cream

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Method

1h 10m total

Read the method on A Cozy KitchenAdrianna Adarme’s original page

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