Carrot Cake Edit    Tags: Cakes, Desserts
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Ingredients:
  • 1 â…” cups white sugar 335g
  • 2 ½ cups all purpose flour 300g
  • ½ tsp cinnamon 1g
  • ½ tsp all-spice 1g
  • ½ tsp cardamom 1g
  • ¼ tsp ginger 500mg
  • 2 tsp baking powder 8g
  • 2 tsp baking soda 12g
  • 1 ½ tsp salt 8g, kosher
  • ¾ cup sour cream 180mL
  • ¾ cup vegetable oil 180ml
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla 10mL
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts 125g, toasted!
  • 1 lb carrots 450g, shredded
  • ½ cup apple sauce 120 mL
  • 1 ½ c semi sweet chocolate chips
  • Frosting:
  • 16 oz cream cheese 452g, room temp
  • 12 oz butter 340g, room temp
  • 1 tsp vanilla 5mL
  • 1 ¾ lb confectioners sugar 800g
Directions:
  1. preheat the oven to 350° F.
  2. Add butter and parchment paper to a sheet cake pan.
  3. Beat the sugar, oil, eggs, sour cream, apple sauce, and vanilla together in a large bowl.
  4. In another bowl, sift together dry ingredients and whisk together.
  5. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mix together until just combined and scrape the bowl down.
  6. Toss the toasted pecans with 1 tablespoon of the dry mixture.
  7. Fold the carrots and walnuts and chocolate chips into the batter.
  8. Divide the batter evenly into a three buttered 8" pans lined with parchment paper.
  9. Bake for about 40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  10. Allow the layers to cool completely in the pan. Set over a wire rack.
  11. For the Cream Cheese Frosting:
  12. Cream the butter and cream cheese in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment.
  13. Mix in the vanilla until well combined, scrape the bowl down then add the confectioners sugar and mix until smooth.
  14. For the Assembly
  15. Pipe a thick layer of the cream cheese frosting onto the first cooled layer, add the second then repeat the process until the cake is built.
  16. Because cream cheese frosting tends to be soft it's best to chill the cake for a bit so it stabilizes.
  17. Cover the cake in cream cheese frosting then smooth the side and top.
  18. Press the chopped toasted pecans onto the lower part of the side.


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