Mini Carrot Cake with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

Name: Mini Carrot Cake with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 22 min
Total time: 57 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: american
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg; 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt; 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger; 1/4 cup unsalted butter (at room temperature); 1/4 cup neutral oil ((such as avocado, grape seed oil or vegetable oil)); 1/2 cup granulated sugar; 1/2 cup brown sugar; 2 large eggs; 1/3 cup buttermilk (shaken); 1 1/4 cups grated carrots; 3/4 cup roughly chopped walnuts; 6 tablespoons unsalted butter (cubed); 5 ounces cream cheese (at room temperature); 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; Pinch of salt; 1 1/2 cups + 6 tablespoons powdered sugar (divided); 2 teaspoons heavy cream

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Small-batch carrot cake studded with walnuts and warm spices, topped with brown butter cream cheese frosting. Elegant and indulgent.

Ingredients

4 SERVINGS

Carrot Cake:

1¼ cupsall-purpose flour
1 tspbaking soda
1 tspground cinnamon
½ tspfreshly ground nutmeg
½ tspkosher salt
¼ tspground ginger
¼ cupunsalted butter — at room temperature
¼ cupneutral oil
½ cupgranulated sugar
½ cupbrown sugar
2large eggs
⅓ cupbuttermilk
1¼ cupsgrated carrots
¾ cupwalnuts — chopped

Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting:

6 tbspunsalted butter
5 ozcream cheese — at room temperature
½ tsppure vanilla extract
salt
1⅞ cupspowdered sugar — divided
2 tspheavy cream

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Method

57m total

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