Gingerbread Carrot Cake with Salted Maple Cream Cheese Icing | Publix Super Markets

Ingredients

• Nonstick cooking spray
• Parchment paper
• 2 (9-inch) round cake pans
• 4 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon Alessi Fine Sea Salt
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons McCormick Ground Ginger
• 2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons ground allspice
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cups canola oil
• 6 Pete & Gerry’s Free Range Organic Large Eggs
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 2 cups carrots, peeled & grated
• 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
• 1/2 cup pineapple rings, drained & diced
• …optional garnishes
• 1/4 cup finely ground walnuts
• 6 whole walnut halves
• 2 pineapple rings, cut into 6 pieces each
• 1/4 cup mint leaves
• 1 1/2 lb Philadelphia Cream Cheese, softened
• 1 1/2 lb Vermont Creamery Cultured Unsalted Butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup confectioner’s sugar
• 1/2 cup maple syrup