Cardamom Spiced Carrot Cake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing

Name: Cardamom Spiced Carrot Cake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters sliced almonds, toasted and coarsely chopped; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 237 milliliters buttermilk, at room temperature; 710 milliliters grated carrots (about 6 to 8 carrots); 1 liters confectioners sugar, sifted; 340 grams 1/2 packages cream cheese, at room temperature; 4 larges eggs, at room temperature; 1 teaspoon ground cardamom; 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 2 Tbsps heavy cream; 118 milliliters light brown sugar, packed; 177 milliliters toasted pecans, chopped; 118 milliliters drained crushed pineapple; 1 teaspoons salt; 591 milliliters unbleached all-purpose flour, plus 1 tablespoon; 177 milliliters (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 177 milliliters vegetable oil; 113 grams fine white chocolate, melted and cooled; 355 milliliters white sugar

Cardamom Spiced Carrot Cake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing requires about 2 hours from start to finish. This recipe covers 20% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 1201 calories, 14g of protein, and 62g of fat. This recipe serves 10. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Easter. A mixture of carrots, vanillan extract, heavy cream, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 3 (8-inch) round cake pans and line the bottom of the pans with parchment paper. Spray the paper and pans with baking spray. Set the pans aside until ready to use.

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Baking Spray

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Baking Paper

Oven

In the bowl of an electric mixer on medium speed, beat the oil and sugars together until combined.

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Cooking Oil

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Mix in the vanilla and add the eggs, 1 at a time, mixing well after each addition.

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Vanilla

Egg

Add the carrots and pineapple and mix until combined.

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Pineapple

Carrot

In a large bowl sift together the 2 1/2 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cardamom and cinnamon. With the mixer speed on low, add the flour mixture to the carrot mixture alternately with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with the flour.

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Baking Soda

Buttermilk

Cardamom

Cinnamon

Carrot

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Blender

Bowl

Mix until just combined. In a small bowl, toss the pecans with the remaining 1 tablespoon of flour. Fold the pecans into the batter.

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Pecans

All Purpose Flour

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Bowl

Pour the batter evenly into the prepared cake pans.

Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cakes comes out clean, about 35 to 45 minutes. Cool the cakes in the pans on wire racks for 15 minutes.

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Toothpicks

Oven

Remove the cakes from the pans and cool completely on the racks.

While the cakes are cooling, prepare the icing. In the bowl of an electric mixer on medium speed, beat the butter and cream cheese together until well combined. Reduce the speed to low and gradually add the confectioners' sugar.

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Powdered Sugar

Cream Cheese

Butter

Icing

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Hand Mixer

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Mix until combined.

Add the vanilla and white chocolate. Increase the speed to medium-high and beat until smooth, about 1 to 2 minutes. Set aside 1 cup of icing for decoration.

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White Chocolate

Vanilla

Icing

Add the heavy cream and beat until combined.

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Heavy Cream

To frost the cake, arrange 1 cake layer on a cake plate.

Spread the top with the cream cheese icing and top with a second and third cake layer, spreading the icing between each layer.

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Icing

Spread

Spread the icing on top and around the sides of the cake. Apply the almonds to the sides of the frosted cake. Fill a pastry bag, fitted with a star tip, with the reserved icing and pipe a border around the top of the cake.

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Almonds