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Published: Dec 22, 2010 · Updated: Jul 28, 2021 by Carole Jones · 2 Comments

Triple Layer Carrot Cake

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I spent my whole day today making carrot cakes for a customer. He ordered them as business Christmas gifts. It was a great day except for one problem: I didn’t get to taste them. I so wanted to take a generous slice out of just one. Do you think he would have noticed??? Maybe cut a circle out of the middle, remove it to eat, fill the hole with paper towels and frost it smooth. (Any Cosby Show fans out there???)

Triple Layer Carrot CakeI decided today that cakes are my favorite item to bake. Yep, they are a lot of work, but I love stacking those three layers together and then decorating them. I took a couple Wilton classes years ago and they have certainly come in handy.

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Triple Layer Carrot Cake

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A triple layer of perfectly moist and delicious carrot cake that is topped with a brown sugar cream cheese frosting.

Ingredients



  • 2 C all purpose flour


  • 1 1/2 Tb cinnamon


  • 3/4 tsp baking soda


  • 1/4 tsp baking powder


  • 4 large eggs


  • 3/4 C canola oil


  • 2 C sugar


  • 1 tsp kosher salt


  • 1 pound freshly grated carrots


  • 3/4 c pecan or walnut pieces


Frosting



  • 1 1/2 C butter, room temperature


  • 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature


  • 1/4 C brown sugar


  • 1 t vanilla


  • 3 T milk


  • 5 C powdered sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease  and flour three 8″ cake pans
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder and cinnamon.
  3. In your mixer bowl fitted with whisk attachment, beat the eggs on high until light and fluffy.  Decrease the speed to medium, add the oil, sugar and salt.  Decrease speed to low and gradually add flour mixture.
  4. Remove bowl from the mixer and fold in the carrots and nuts with a rubber spatula.
  5. Divide batter evenly among the cake pans.  Bake for 38-40 minutes and cool for 5 minutes before removing them from the pans.  Allow to cool completely before frosting the cakes
  6.  Cream the butter and cream cheese together in an electric mixer.  Be sure they are room temp or your frosting will be lumpy.
  7. Add the brown sugar and vanilla.  Beat for 2 minutes.  Turn off the mixer and add 2 C of powdered sugar.  Turn the mixer of low speed and allow to incorporate.  Add milk and remaining powdered sugar.  If you want a thinner frosting, add more milk or thicker, add more powdered sugar.
  • Author: Carole Jones

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1/17th
  • Calories: 652
  • Sugar: 66g
  • Sodium: 192mg
  • Fat: 36g
  • Saturated Fat: 14g
  • Unsaturated Fat: 19g
  • Trans Fat: 0g
  • Carbohydrates: 79g
  • Fiber: 2g
  • Protein: 5g
  • Cholesterol: 100mg

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Categories: Desserts Tags: Cake, Frosting

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  1. ButterYum says

    June 27, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    Very lovely job.

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  2. Kristy says

    July 26, 2012 at 11:49 pm

    These look delish! And that is definitely my fav Cosby show! Every now and then I crave a yellow cake with chocolate frosting and then I am sooooo tempted to cut out the middle, stuff a paper towel inside and re ice it!!! So glad I found your delish blog! 😉

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