Maple Carrot Cheese Cake
This ultra moist carrot cake is perfectly connected by the best maple cheese filling
that will answer to your plate by name
Maple Carrot Cheese Cake.
O Canada...it is the perfect carrot cake.
Ingredients
- Moist Carrot Cake
- 3/4 cup butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 TBSP vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 + 1/8 cups flour
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp + 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup + 1 TBSP maple syrup
- 1/4 + 1/8 cup milk (2%)
- 3 cups grated carrots
- 1 cup walnuts (toasted and chopped)
- Maple Cheese Filling
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 2/3 cup butter
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 6 3/4 cups icing sugar
- 1/8 cup maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
Use 3 6-inch round cake pans, line the bottoms with parchment paper.
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Making the moist carrot cake
In a medium size bowl whisk flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
For your next step you will need to use the best mixer you have.
Beat the butter until creamy, add brown sugar and keep beating until fluffy.
After that add one egg, mix, add second egg, mix, add third egg and mix.
IMPORTANT: Don't worry if the mixture look curdled.
Your almost the final step is to add flour mixture to the egg mixture.
This is how it will happen:
Add 1/3 of flour mixture and mix. Then add maple syrup. Mix.
Your next step is to add 1/3 cup of flour mixture, whisk again and add milk.
Finally end with the flour mixture.
What else is left to do?
Just add 3 cups grated carrots and 1 cup chopped walnuts.
Mix all ingredients with spatula or wooden spoon.
Divide the batter among 3 pans.
I used 1 1/2 cups + 1/8 cup of cake mixture per each baking pan.
Bake at 350 F for about 36 minutes or until done. (use a tester to insert into the center of the cake)
Cool it.
IMPORTANT: At this point you can wrap the carrot cake layers and freeze for about 6 weeks.
Thaw before making maple cheese filling.
Let me repeat the most challenging part of recipe:
add 1/3 of flour mixture
maple syrup
another 1/3 of flour mixture
milk
last 1/3 of flour mixture
How to make the best maple cheese filling?
In a medium bowl, mix cream cheese until smooth.
Add butter and keep beating until smooth.
Add icing sugar and keep mixing.
Then add maple sugar, vanilla extract and mix all ingredients together. Set aside.
In a separate bowl mix heavy cream.
Add mixed heavy cream to cream cheese mixture and mix quickly
You are done. You just made the best maple cheese filling for the best moist carrot cake called
Maple Carrot Cheese Cake.
ASSEMBLE
1 carrot cake layer
Cheese filling
2 cake layer
Cheese filling
3 cake layer
Top with the final cheese filling and smooth.
Optional: Decoration with chopped walnuts.
Refrigerate for a few hours or overnight before serving.
Enjoy and share.