The Cheesecake Factory Carrot Cake
This carrot cake contains 1,560 calories. The average adult needs about 2,000 calories in an entire day.
The Factory's Black Out, Amy's Fudge, and Fabulous Chocolate Mousse cakes are in the same ballpark. A slice of each has approximately 1,400 calories. That makes a slice of the Original Cheesecake, at "only" 710 calories, look like a bargain.
It's not just the ingredients that make these cakes hip-huggers. The corn oil, cream cheese, eggs, butter, palm kernel oil, butterfat, and hydrogenated palm oil explain why a slice of the Carrot Cake has 84 grams of fat, 23 of them saturated. (That's more than a day's worth of saturated fat.)
It is also the sheer size of the cakes that makes them stick to your ribs (and thighs, abs, and hips). A slice of each six-inch-high layer cake weighs almost a pound!
