Went to a Halloween party last weekend. Wanted to try something out of a new Halloween cookbook. This is what I got. A little time consuming because I only have one bundt pan and you have to make two cakes, but not too bad and the pumpkin spice flavor with the delicious cream cheese frosting was scrumptious! I want some more right now thinking about it.
Also, you can't double the recipe. You have to make each batch separately. Not sure why. I just followed what the recipe said. I know, a pain, but worth it in the end.
For each cake:
3 c flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1/2 c butter, room temp.
1 c sugar
1 c packed brown sugar
4 eggs
1 Tbs. vanilla
1/2 c sour cream
1-15 oz. can pumpkin puree
Frosting:
1-8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, room temp.
1/2 c butter, room temp.
5 c powdered sugar
2-4 Tbs. milk
2 tsp. vanilla extract
green, red, and yellow food coloring gels
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 F
2. Combine dry ingredients (flour baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pp spice into bowl). Set aside
3. Cream butter and both sugars until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time. Blend in vanilla, sour cream, and pumpkin puree.
4. Add flour mixture in halves.
5. Scoop out 1/3 of batter and pour into paper-lined ramekin (you only need to do this for one of the batches). Pour remaining batter into greased bundt pan. Bake both pans for 15 minutes. Remove ramekin. Continue baking bundt pan for 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool slightly. Remove cake from pan and cool on wire rack.
6. Make second cake. Bake 45-50 minutes.
7. Make frosting. Beat cream cheese and butter. Slowly blend in powdered sugar. Add milk 1 Tbs. at a time until frosting is at spreadable consistency.
8. Remove a small amount of frosting into separate bowl for green (top). Add food coloring to other bowl to desired orange.
9. When both bundt cakes are entirely cool, assemble cakes, one on top of the other, using a good layer of frosting to adhere cakes together. Continue frosting until it's how you like.
10. Add chocolate chips to make jack-o-lantern face and voila!
3 comments:
That is adorable! I love it!
LOVE the cake. Looks beautiful and sounds yummy!
The cake was not only adorable, it was delicious too! My only recommendation is to make extra frosting so you don't have to swat anyone's hands away from the frosting bowl while you're frosting the cake. And so you can put extra frosting on your piece. Just sayin'...
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