APPLE-PECAN CARROT CAKE
Southern Living Magazine recipe. This cake has Mascarpone Frosting piled on top and Apple Cider Caramel Sauce in between layers and salty-sweet spiced pecans scattered about. The photo alone looks good enough to eat.
Provided by Pat Duran
Categories Other Sauces
Time 1h5m
Number Of Ingredients 23
Steps:
- 1. Heat oven to 350^. Butter well 2 parchment covered 9-inch cake pans. Sprinkle with 1 1/3 cups of toasted pecans. Shake pan to coat bottoms and sides of pans with the nuts.
- 2. Stir together the flour,soda,salt and apple pie spice. Stir eggs,sugar vegetable oil, buttermilk and vanilla in a large bowl until well blended. Fold in apples, carrots and remaining 1 cup of pecans. Pour batter evenly into prepared pans.Bake for 30-35 minutes until toothpick test comes out clean. Cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove pans and cool completely, about 1 hour.
- 3. Place 1 cake layer, pecan side down, on serving plate. Spread top of cake layer with 2/3 cup of the Cider Caramel Sauce; top with remaining cake layer, pecan side down. Spread Mascarpone Frosting over top of cake. Drizzle some of the caramel sauce over frosting, and swirl sauce into frosting. Serve immediately. Refrigerate any left over cake.
- 4. APPLE-CIDER-CARAMEL-SAUCE: (make this the day before) Cook cider in a 3 qt saucepan over medium heat, stirring often, 10 minutes or until reduced to 1/4 cup. Stir in remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly; boil 2 minutes. Remove from heat and cool completely. Refrigerate up to 1 week. To reheat, microwave at high 10 to 15 seconds or just until warm; stir until smooth.
- 5. MASCARPONE FROSTING: Stir mascarpone cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla in a medium bowl just until blended. Beat cream at low speed with mixer until foamy; increase speed to medium-high, beating until stiff peaks form. Gently fold whipped cream mixture into mascarpone cheese..Use immediately.
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Puspha Raj
r-puspha@yahoo.comThis was my favorite cake ever. Can't wait to make this again!
Abdul Rauf Khan Baloch
a.b4@gmail.comI made this cake for a party and it was a huge hit!
Papa Ka pyara
p_p@gmail.comThis cake was delicious! I made it for my husband's birthday.
Kisa FIFI
f@gmail.comI love this cake! It's so moist and flavorful. I've made it several times now.
Malik Sharoz
msharoz@gmail.comThis cake was so easy to make and it turned out so well!
Leah Pentolfe
leahpentolfe37@hotmail.frI made this cake for a party and it was a huge hit! Everyone loved it and asked for the recipe.
Mylee Tittle
m.t15@gmail.comThis cake was delicious! I made it for my husband's birthday and he loved it. The cake was moist and flavorful, and the frosting was the perfect sweetness. I will definitely be making this again.
James Brown
bjames@yahoo.comI love this cake! It's so moist and flavorful, and the cream cheese frosting is the perfect complement. I've made it several times now, and it's always a hit.
Alina Butnariuc
b_alina56@yahoo.comThis cake was so easy to make and it turned out so well! I used a bundt pan and it came out perfectly. The cake was moist and flavorful, and the frosting was the perfect sweetness. I will definitely be making this again.
Brandon Mweene
mweene-brandon@yahoo.comI made this cake for a party and it was a huge hit! Everyone loved it and asked for the recipe. I will definitely be making this again.
nazha Mostafa moon
n@hotmail.comThis cake was delicious! I made it for my husband's birthday and he loved it. The cake was moist and flavorful, and the frosting was the perfect sweetness. I will definitely be making this again.
Siamisang gaetshwane
siamisang.gaetshwane@gmail.comI love this cake! It's so moist and flavorful, and the cream cheese frosting is the perfect complement. I've made it several times now, and it's always a hit.
Rubab Kiran
k@aol.comThis cake was so easy to make and it turned out so well! I used a bundt pan and it came out perfectly. The cake was moist and flavorful, and the frosting was the perfect sweetness. I will definitely be making this again.
Bhupinder Singh
singhb@gmail.comI made this cake for a potluck and it was a huge success! Everyone loved it and asked for the recipe. I will definitely be making this again.
Love Diary
diary-love39@hotmail.comThis cake was a hit with my family! It was moist and flavorful, and the cream cheese frosting was the perfect complement. I will definitely be making this again.