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Triple Layer Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake is one of my favorite desserts.  My grandmother always made a wonderful Triple Layer Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting adding her own little twist to it… She says the secret is in the maple syrup and ginger.

We just made my grandmother’s wonderful Carrot Cake this weekend, I thought I would share her recipe with you.

 

 

Triple Layer Carrot Cake

Triple Layer Carrot Cake

Cake Ingredients:

  • 4 Eggs

  • 1 1/4 Canola oil

  • 1/2 cup pure Maple syrup

  • 1 cup granulated sugar

  • 1 cup light brown sugar

  • 3 cups peeled, graded and well-drained carrots (I have played around with this and put 3 1/2 cups)

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour

  • pinch of salt

  • 1/2 tsp ground ginger

  • 2 tsp baking powder

  • 2 tsp baking soda

  • 1 Tbsp cinnamon

  • 1 1/2 tsp allspice

  • 1 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

  • 1 cup chopped pecans

  • 1/3 cup raisins (I use very little since one of my children doesn’t like raisins, you can add more for your liking)

Frosting Ingredients:

  • 32 oz or 3 8 oz packages of cream cheese (set out in advance so it’s soft before making frosting)

  • 1/2 cup salted butter/ 1 stick (also set out so that it is soft)

  • 2 cups powdered sugar

  • 1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract

 Triple Layer Carrot Cake

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.  Take 3 round cake pans 8″ or 9″and lightly grease.  Use parchment paper or wax paper and line the bottom of each pan then lightly grease the paper.  I use butter to coat the parchment paper.

Add eggs, oil and maple syrup into a large mixing bowl.  Beat for a couple of minutes then gradually add in both sugars, continue beating for 3-4 minutes.  Add carrots until thoroughly mixed, then set to the side.

In another bowl place the rest of the cake ingredients, stirring together until combined well.

Add dry ingredients slowly into the oil, maple syrup, carrot and sugars mixture beat together until well mixed.

Pour batter into the cake pans equally so that your layers will look as even as possible.  Place in the oven and cook for about 45 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.  You’ll notice cakes will just begin to pull away from the sides.

Remove from oven and let cakes cool in the pans on wire rack.  After 20 minutes remove cakes from pans and parchment paper and let cool for another 1-2 hours.  If you have enough room you can lightly wrap the cakes and place in your refrigerator. This will really help when putting the frosting on.

Just before you are ready to ice the cakes place all of your frosting ingredients together in a medium bowl.  Beat for just a few minutes making sure they are combined nicely together.

Take one of the cakes and place it on a cake plate or a large plate top down.  Frost the cake to the thickness you like (if you like a lot of frosting you may need to make more icing).  Repeat this step with the next 2 cakes.  I usually put more on the top layer and down the sides.  Yummy!  Keep refrigerated and enjoy 🙂

If you would prefer to only make 2 layers instead of a Triple Layer Carrot Cake just cut the ingredients back by 1/3.

Do you like Triple Layer Carrot Cake?  What kind of frosting do you like to use?

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Comments

  4. OH MY GOSH this looks incredible! I love Carrot Cake but this looks way more decadent than mine, saving this recipe! 🙂 Thanks!

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  6. Carrot cake is my favorite kind of cake! This recipe looks and sounds delicious! Thank you for sharing your family recipe!

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  17. Yummmmm!!!! This looks and sounds delicious! Thanks so much for sharing your recipe and I will try my hand at it too! I will let you know and Thanks again for sharing!

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  23. This looks fantastic and I’m excited about using maple syrup, I think that’s going to make a really nice difference.

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  24. thats an awesome recipe. and i love that i can use nutmeg as i have never got a way to use it and i love the taste of it too.

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  30. If only I could get pure Maple syrup locally – but it’s not available and I refuse to buy the artificial stuff – oh well just need to keep the recipe until I find some

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  31. Carrot cake is one of my favorites and this one looks really good….except for those raising…they would have to go lol. Thanks for sharing.

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  32. I love Carrot cake!! I remembered my mom always making these when she was in her best mood. She had diabetes. So it was always hard for her to be stricted by food she loved. I love your recipe!! I might just make this this weekend when I go grocery shopping! Thank you!

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  34. CARROT CAKE IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE CAKES. I HAVE NEVER SEEN MAPLE SYRUP USED IN A CARROT CAKE RECIPE BEFORE. I AM GOING TO TRY YOUR RECIPE FOR SURE. I THINK THIS WILL BE GOOD FOR DESSERT ON NEW YEARS DAY.

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  35. In college, a friend in my apartment complex made wonderful carrot at least once a week. We always jokingly called it “cannibal” carrot cake. She used her grandmother’s exact recipe and grated the carrot using a box grater. The problem was she always grated her knuckles, too.

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  37. That looks amazing! I’ve always loved carrot cake. When I was a little kid, my family regularly went to a local restaurant that served carrot cake. I was known as the Carrot Cake Kid, because I (almost) always ordered it for dessert.

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  38. Carrot cake is my fav! but i never heard of adding maple syrup! I HAVE to make and try this, TY for sharing…my hips don’t thank you though lol Merry Christmas!

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  50. I was trying to think of a dessert to serve for a dinner I was hosting. This is the perfect recipe. I know my guests will love it. Many thanks!

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  52. I’ve always loved carrot cake, but so many recipes are pretty much the same thing over and over. This one looks amazing. I’m getting hungry just looking at the photo and reading the recipe. I’m definitely going to have to make this recipe.

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  56. I Absolutely LOVE Carrot Cake! However, I’ve never tried making it myself. I love the idea of a triple layered Carrot Cake! It looks absolutely Devine!!! I’m the only one in our family that likes Carrot Cake and if I were to make one, I’d be the one eating it all! That would be wonderful, however, no good for me! Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful recipe with all of us! Thanks again, Michele 🙂

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  59. Carrot cake has always been a favorite of mine, but have never attempted to make it on my own. This recipe sounds delicious.

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  61. Not only does this look easy to make, it looks awesome. My mom LOVES carrot cake so I’m saving this recipe for her birthday!

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  62. Carrot cake is a family favorite and this recipe looks fantastic. I look forward to making this very soon.

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  63. amazing recipe. i love carrots as its my favorite vegetable i can have when im hungry and its great to know that i can make an awesome cake with it in no time.

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  64. OMG, this carrot cake looks so delicious. We love carrot cake and this recipe will be easy to make. I don’t put as much nutmeg as it calls for since we aren’t too fond of nutmeg.

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  66. This carrot cake looks absolutely delicious! My husband’s favorite dessert is carrot cake and he’s always begging me to make it for him. It looks like I’ll have to now! This would also be a great dessert to bring along to Thanksgiving! Yum! Thanks for sharing 🙂

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  73. Family recipes are always the best!! Carrot cake is one of my favs too!! I can’t wait to try it!! Thanks so so much for letting out the secret 😉

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  74. This sounds so good. I love carrot cake and I haven’t made it in a long time. I will definitely try out this recipe. Thank you so much for sharing

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  80. YUM!! This looks Heavenly 🙂 It’s been way too long since I’ve had Carrots Cake, and will be making this as soon as possible!! Thanks for this recipe!!

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  82. (Triple Layer Carrot Cake) I am going to make this good cake recipe for our upcoming easter family get together this year.

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  83. I love carrot cake! I haven’t tried making it myself,it’s too easy to buy it at the store.This is definitely one I will be making using the recipe

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  84. I love Carrot cake .This looks like it would taste awesome.have to see if my wife will try this recipe thanks for the chance .

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  85. This carrot cake is delicious. Your grandmother had a great recipe here. Thank you for sharing

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  93. I love extras like raisins and walnuts in my carrot cake. I never used maple syrup so I have to try it this fall!

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  94. This sounds so good. I love carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and haven’t made one in ages! I’d love to try this, maple syrup and ginger are new ingredients to me for this cake. I love recipes from grandmothers!

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  105. We love carrot cake. We grow a ton of carrots in our garden so having good carrot recipes is really nice. This one looks fantastic. I love all the spices.

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  107. I love carrot cake. This recipe is so moist and so tasty. Great dessert. Thank you again for sharing this great recipe. God Bless

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