Carrot-Apple Spice Cake with Browned-Butter Glaze

Name: Carrot-Apple Spice Cake with Browned-Butter Glaze
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters grated peeled Honeycrisp apple (or any sweet-tart apple); 2 Tbsps bourbon; 59 milliliters butter; 59 milliliters canola oil; 237 milliliters grated carrot; 3 larges eggs; 2 Tbsps 2% reduced-fat milk; 118 milliliters nonfat buttermilk; 59 milliliters chopped pecans, toasted; 473 milliliters powdered sugar, divided; 1 Dash salt; 517 grams box spice cake mix (such as Duncan Hines); 1 teaspoons vanilla extract; 59 milliliters water

Carrot-Apple Spice Cake with Browned-Butter Glaze requires roughly 1 hour and 30 minutes from start to finish. This recipe makes 16 servings with 301 calories, 3g of protein, and 13g of fat each. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up spice cake mix, canolan oil, powdered sugar, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 35

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Oven

To prepare cake, combine first 5 ingredients in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at low speed for 1 minute or until well combined.

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Blender

Bowl

Add cake mix to buttermilk mixture; beat at medium speed 1 minute or until well blended. Stir in carrot and apple until just combined. Divide batter evenly among 3 (8-inch) round cake pans coated with baking spray.

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Baking Spray

Buttermilk

Cake Mix

Carrot

Apple

Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool cakes in pans on a wire rack 10 minutes.

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Wire Rack

Oven

Remove cakes from pans; cool completely on wire rack.

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Wire Rack

To prepare glaze, melt butter in a small saucepan over medium-low heat; cook 6 minutes or until lightly browned, stirring frequently. Cool slightly.

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Butter

Glaze

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Sauce Pan

Combine browned butter, 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, cream cheese, milk, vanilla, and salt in a medium bowl; beat with a mixer at low speed 2 minutes or until smooth.

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Powdered Sugar

Cream Cheese

Vanilla

Butter

Milk

Salt

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Blender

Bowl

To assemble cake, place 1 cake layer on a plate; spread 1/4 cup glaze over cake layer. Top with second layer and spread with 1/4 cup glaze. Top with third layer. Stir the remaining 1/2 cup powdered sugar into remaining glaze.

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Powdered Sugar

Glaze

Spread remaining glaze over top of cake.

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Glaze

Sprinkle with chopped pecans.

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Pecan Pieces