Brown Butter Carrot Cake
Two layers, cream cheese frosting, Fogato candied walnuts in the middle and cinnamon on top.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter
- 2 cups All-purpose flour
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 2 tsp Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 cup Brown sugar
- ½ cup Sugar
- 4 Eggs
- 3 cups grated Carrots
- 1½ cups, toasted and chopped Fogato candied walnuts
- 16 oz, soft Cream cheese
- ½ cup, for the frosting Butter, soft
- 3 cups Powdered sugar
- 2 tsp Vanilla extract
Steps
- Brown 1 cup butter until it smells nutty and the bits are deep golden, then cool.
- Heat the oven to 350°F and line two 9-inch pans.
- Whisk the brown butter with both sugars and the eggs, then fold in the flour, leaveners, cinnamon and salt, then the carrots.
- Bake until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely.
- Beat the cream cheese, soft butter, powdered sugar and vanilla into frosting.
- Layer with frosting and half the Fogato candied walnuts, frost, then top with the rest of the Fogato candied walnuts and a dusting of cinnamon.
Keep it in the fridge.
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