Maple Carrot Cake with Maple Butter Icing

This is a recipe we found in the Spring 2011 edition of Food and Drink Magazine from the LCBO. Instead of making a traditional chocolate birthday cake, we decided to do something different. This cake has four layers of rich maple butter icing in between each layer of moist carrot cake with a hint of nutmeg. We garnished it with maple cookies and maple flakes. It was a huge success.