Best Carrot Cake with Orange Zest Cream Cheese Frosting! Recipe

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Best Carrot Cake with Orange Zest Cream Cheese Frosting!
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Ingredients
19
Count
Nutrition
6085
Calories
Total time
65
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350F. You’ll need one large bowl and one medium bowl. (Large bowl for the wet ingredients and the small one for the dry ingredients.)
  2. Grease two 9 inch cake pans WELL with 2 tablespoons of butter (1tbsp for each pan.) Add one tablespoon of flour to one of the pans and tip the pan so the butter is lightly coated with the flour. Dump the excess flour into the next pan and repeat. Lightly tap the excess off.
  3. Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, mace, nutmeg, and salt together in medium bowl until well incorporated.
  4. Mix the room temp eggs, honey, buttermilk, brown sugar/coconut sugar, vanilla, and butter together in large bowl. Add the dry ingredients into your wet ingredients and stir well. Fold in grated carrots.
  5. Pour batter evenly into both pans. It looks like there is barely any batter in the pans but it will rise, believe me. Cook for 35-40 minutes. Stick a butter knife into the center and see if it comes out cleanly. LET REST FOR ATLEAST 30 MINUTES, otherwise frosting will just melt and you’ll have a mess.
  6. While the cake is resting prepare the frosting. Add the cream cheese, butter, vanilla extract, the zest of the outside of the orange, the juice of 1/2 of the orange, and the powdered sugar into a bowl. Beat together until the frosting is fluffy and incorporated.
  7. Find some wax paper or parchment paper. Cut a piece about the size of the plate in half. Lay them on the plate. Take one of the cakes out of the pan and lay it on its rounded side, so the flat side is facing up. Put a good size glob of your frosting on the top and spread it evenly. (Use however much you want) Add the second cake layer this time with the rounded side up. Add most of the frosting to the top of the cake and spread it down the sides. I use to parchment paper so when you are finished frosting your can pull each side out and have a clean plate! Enjoy!
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 6084.68 Kcal (25475 kJ)
Calories from fat 3487.05 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 387.45g 596%
Cholesterol 1668.68mg 556%
Sodium 4882.88mg 203%
Potassium 3575.72mg 76%
Total Carbs 563.94g 188%
Sugars 280.87g 1123%
Dietary Fiber 20.28g 81%
Protein 102.03g 204%
Vitamin C 17.1mg 29%
Vitamin A 4.5mg 149%
Iron 10.7mg 60%
Calcium 1435.5mg 144%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 302.54 Kcal (1267 kJ)
Calories from fat 173.38 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 19.26g 596%
Cholesterol 82.97mg 556%
Sodium 242.79mg 203%
Potassium 177.79mg 76%
Total Carbs 28.04g 188%
Sugars 13.97g 1123%
Dietary Fiber 1.01g 81%
Protein 5.07g 204%
Vitamin C 0.9mg 29%
Vitamin A 0.2mg 149%
Iron 0.5mg 60%
Calcium 71.4mg 144%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 153.2
    Points
  • 169
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar,
  • High in Total Fat

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