Pumpkin Spice Layer Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Salted Caramel Recipe

• —butter and flour for pans and parchment liners
• 3 cupsall-purpose flour
• 2 tspbaking powder
• 1 tspbaking soda
• 1 tspsalt
• 1 tbspground cinnamon
• 2 tspground ginger
• ½ tspground nutmeg
• ½ tspground cloves
• 1 cupunsalted butter — softened to room temperature, 2 sticks
• 1 cupgranulated sugar
• 1 cuplight brown sugar
• 4large eggs
• 1 tbspvanilla extract
• 15 ozpumpkin puree — canned, 1½ cup

Easy Cream Cheese Frosting

• 8 ozcream cheese — 1 package
• 4 tbspbutter — softened, ½ stick
• 1 tspvanilla extract
• ¼ tspsea salt
• 2–3 cupsconfectioner's sugar

Caramel Sauce

• ½ cupgranulated sugar
• 2 tbspbutter
• ⅓ cupheavy cream
• ½ tspsea salt