Carrot Cake with Buttermilk Glaze – delicious carrot cake with pineapple, coconut, and nuts! It’s drizzled with a buttermilk glaze and topped with cream cheese frosting!
If you love carrot cake as much as I do, try Carrot Cake Whoopie Pies and Carrot Cake Pancakes!
I promise there’s a reason this looks like the biggest hot mess of a carrot cake ever.
And that reason is because it’s the world’s best carrot cake.
You’ve got your typical carrot cake recipe with lots of carrots, coconut, pineapple, nuts and then when you pull it out of the oven, you drizzle a buttermilk glaze over it and it all seeps in and makes the cake extra delicious.
And then after it cools you cover it in cream cheese frosting which makes it extra, extra delicious.
Like I said, best carrot cake ever.
Ingredients
- All-purpose flour
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Ground cinnamon
- Eggs
- Brown sugar
- Vegetable oil
- Buttermilk
- Vanilla
- Grated carrot
- Crushed pineapple
- Sweetened flaked coconut
- Pecans
- Powdered sugar
- Butter
- Light corn syrup
- Cream cheese
- Milk
Instructions
- Line 3 (9-inch) round cakepans with wax paper; lightly grease and flour wax paper. Set pans aside.
- Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon until no lumps remain.
- In a separate bowl, beat eggs, brown sugar, vegetable oil, buttermilk, and vanilla at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth.
- Add flour mixture slowly, beating at low speed until combined.
- Fold in grated carrot, crushed pineapple, coconut, and pecans.
- Pour into prepared pans.
- Bake at 350F for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- While the cakes are baking, make the buttermilk glaze by bringing the powdered sugar, baking soda, buttermilk, and butter to a boil over medium-high heat. Boil for 4 minutes, stirring often. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
- Pour over cakes when they are done baking and out of the oven. Let cool completely before frosting.
- To make the cream cheese frosting, beat all ingredients until no lumps remain.
- To frost the cake, gently remove layers from pans one at a time and place on your serving plate. Spread a generous amount of frosting on top of each layer.
- Repeat with remaining cake layers and frosting.
How Long Is It Good For?
Carrot cake is good for about 5 days in the fridge. Make sure to store it in an airtight cake container to keep it fresh for as long as possible.
I recommend letting the cake sit at room temperature for 15 minutes or so before serving so the cake can soften up a bit.
Can You Freeze It?
You can freeze this carrot cake for up to 3 months. I recommend freezing the cake unfrosted – wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and then transfer to a freezer ziploc bag.
If you need to freeze the already frosted cake, I would slice into individual slices and then freeze them on a baking sheet (leaving plenty of space so they don’t stick together). After an hour or so, the frosting will be freezer and you can wrap them tightly in plastic wrap and then transfer to a freezer ziploc bag.
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Carrot Cake with Buttermilk Glaze
Carrot Cake with Buttermilk Glaze - delicious carrot cake with pineapple, coconut, and nuts! It's drizzled with a buttermilk glaze and topped with cream cheese frosting!
Ingredients
For the cake:
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 3 large eggs
- 2 cups brown sugar
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- ¾ cup buttermilk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 cups grated carrot
- 1 8-ounce can crushed pineapple, drained
- 1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
- 1 cup pecans, coarsely chopped
For the buttermilk glaze:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
- ½ cup buttermilk
- ½ cup 1 stick butter
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
For the cream cheese frosting:
- ½ cup 1 stick butter, softened
- 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
- 3 cups sifted powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 - 2 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Line 3 (9-inch) round cakepans with wax paper; lightly grease and flour wax paper. Set pans aside.
- Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon until no lumps remain.
- In a separate bowl, beat eggs, brown sugar, vegetable oil, buttermilk, and vanilla at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Add flour mixture slowly, beating at low speed until combined. Fold in grated carrot, crushed pineapple, coconut, and pecans. Pour into prepared pans.
- Bake at 350F for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- While the cakes are baking, make the buttermilk glaze by bringing the powdered sugar, baking soda, buttermilk, and butter to a boil over medium-high heat. Boil for 4 minutes, stirring often. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Pour over cakes when they are done baking and out of the oven.
- Let cool completely before frosting.
- To make the cream cheese frosting, beat all ingredients until no lumps remain.
- To frost the cake, gently remove layers from pans one at a time and place on your serving plate. Spread a generous amount of frosting on top of each layer. Repeat with remaining cake layers and frosting.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 410Total Fat: 23gSaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 12gCholesterol: 54mgSodium: 370mgCarbohydrates: 50gFiber: 2gSugar: 40gProtein: 4g
Jean High says
The carrot cake recipe calls for 2 cups granulated sugar but the instructions say C&H pourable brown sugar. Which one goes in the cake?? White or brown sugar
Amanda Livesay says
It should be brown sugar. Sorry and thanks for catching that! I hope you love the cake if you try it!
jessica says
I like to put brown sugar on cream of wheat.
Cynthia Knisely says
Love the carrot cake glaze recipe. My husband would love it too. Thank you for the recipe.
Whitney Bellows says
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