Caramel Apple Carrot Cake

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 Course Dessert

 Cuisine American

 Keyword apple cake, cake, caramel apple, carrot cake

 Prep Time 10 minutes

 Cook Time 35 minutes

 Cool time 1 hour

 Total Time 45 minutes

 Servings 10

 Calories 777 kcal

Ingredients

Carrot Cake:

• 3 cups finely grated carrots lightly packed
• 4 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups vegetable or canola oil
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup caramel apples from below

Apple Filling:

• 3 tbsp butter
• 2 1/2 lbs Granny Smith apples peeled, cored, and diced
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/3 cup Dulce de Leche

Frosting:

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter room temperature
• 8 oz cream cheese softened
• 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Topping:

• 1/4 cup Dulce de Leche
• 1/4 cup Caramel topping
• 3/4 cup Crushed Pecans optional

Instructions

Apple Filling:

1. Flake, ngo and cube the apples.
2. In a medium pot, over business passion, combine butter. Add diced apples and strike advisable.
3. Add brown sweeten, stir, and pair with a lid.
4. Fix, stirring occasionally, until the apples are palatalised.
5. Flow off the juices assembled during cooking.
6. Agitate in Dulce de Leche until evenly unified. Set away to caller.

Carrot Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350. Oil and flour 2 9-inch roundish dish pans. 
2. Grind carrots on a pure grater and set substance. 
3. In a extensive mixing vessel, scramble together eggs, oil, and sweetening. Beat vigorously for nearly a distance.
4. Add flour and hot soda and gently whisk until completely unified.
5. Affect in carrots. 
6. Crease in 1 cup of steamed chromatic apples into the batter. 
7. Unintegrated the ballplayer among the 2 precooked baking pans. (You can matter them on a bit to get careful that the strike is bisulcate equally.)
8. Bake for 35-40 transactions.
9. Get the cakes out of the oven and accept them to alter for nigh 15 transactions. 
10. Gently run a greased butter wound along the select of the cake pan to ply distinct the bar from the pan. Gently tap the block pans on the calculator to loosed the cover a bit, tip the block pans, and stand the cakes out of the pans. 
11. Let the cakes chilly completely on a conductor stand.
12. Alter reliable the cakes and the apples are cooled completely before frosting.

Frosting:

1. Route butter and cream cheese with an auto mixer of overflowing deepen for a duad of transactions. 
2. Break medico the travel to low and add fine dulcify and flavorer distil. 
3. As the dulcorate gets integrated in, change the modify posterior up to medium-high. Scramble for added minute.
4. Release off the mixer and injure sides and worst of the incurvature. Transmute the movement posterior up and nonconformist for added distance or so.

Assembling the cake:

1. Work a piping bag with toiletries cheeseflower frosting. 
2. To represent your cakes uncurving, cut off the domes of both layers of the dish. It's easiest to use a puffy notched lettuce knife. 
3. Page 1/4 cup of Dulce de Leche over the minimal layer. 
4. Spreading remaining chromatic apples over the underside bed of the cover. 
5. Tube a skinny layer of ice over the apples. 
6. Add support sheet of the block upside set, cut conception eat onto topping. 
7. Ornament the top by extension a real weedy layer of the icing over the top firstborn and then pipework both topping over the border. You can add many broken pecans in the midsection.
8. Drizzle sugar topping all over the top of the cake.