Citrus Glazed Pumpkin Carrot Cake Food

SPICED PUMPKIN BUNDT CAKE WITH CITRUS GLAZE

Steps:

• Cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Butter and flour a 12-cup bundt cake pan. In a large mixing bowl, combine the eggs, oil, pie mix, water, and pumpkin pie spice. Beat until well blended. Add the cake mixes and stir to combine. Transfer the mixture to the prepared pan and bake for 50 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Invert the cake onto a cooling rack.
• Glaze: Combine 2 parts yellow food coloring with 4 parts red food coloring to make orange food coloring. Whisk the powdered sugar, orange juice, orange liqueur, and food coloring in a saucepan on low heat for 5 minutes or until the sugar melts. If the glaze seems too dry, add more water or orange juice to reach the right consistency. Drizzle the glaze over the cake.

CITRUS-GLAZED CARROTS

Steps:

• Combine carrots and 2 cups water in heavy large skillet. Add all remaining ingredients except parsley. If needed, add enough water to just cover carrots. Bring to boil, stirring until sugar dissolves. Boil just until carrots are crisp-tender, stirring occasionally, 8 to 9 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer carrots to medium bowl; cool. Boil cooking liquid in skillet until slightly reduced, about 5 minutes. Transfer to small bowl. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover carrots and cooking liquid separately; chill.
• Bring reserved cooking liquid to boil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add carrots and boil until just tender and liquid is thickened to light syrup consistency, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer to serving bowl. Sprinkle with parsley.

CARROT CAKE WITH BUTTERMILK GLAZE

Steps:

• Sift together flour, soda, cinnamon and salt; set aside. Beat eggs in bowl until lemon-colored; beat in the sugar, oil, buttermilk and vanilla. Stir in flour mixture; stir in the pineapple, carrots, nuts and coconut. Pour into lightly greased 13x9-in. baking pan. , Bake at 350° for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. , For frosting, combine all ingredients except vanilla in saucepan; bring to boil. Boil 5-6 minutes, until thick and syrupy; add vanilla. Poke holes in top of cake with toothpick or fork; pour glaze over top while cake is still warm. Serve warm or store in refrigerator.

CITRUS-GLAZED PUMPKIN-CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 14-cup angel-food cake pan. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and ginger. In another large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and brown sugar on medium-high until light and fluffy, 4 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at a time, scraping down bowl as needed. In a medium bowl, whisk together buttermilk and pumpkin puree. With mixer on low, add flour mixture to butter mixture in three additions, alternating with 2 additions pumpkin mixture. Scrape down bowl as needed. Fold in carrots and walnuts.
• Spread batter into pan, using a small spatula to fill any air pockets. Smooth top and firmly tap pan on a flat surface several times to remove air bubbles.
• Bake until a wooden skewer inserted in center of cake comes out clean, 70 to 75 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Remove cake from pan. To serve, spoon glaze over top.

CHAMPAGNE CITRUS CAKE GLAZE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, whisk together the confectioners' sugar, champagne and citrus zest until the mixture is smooth and without lumps.

CITRUS GLAZE FOR PUMPKIN-CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, stir together sugar, lemon and orange juices, and salt. Thin with additional juice if necessary (glaze should be consistency of heavy cream).

PUMPKIN-CITRUS TUBE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat the pumpkin, sugar, milk, eggs, orange juice, oil, maple flavoring and vanilla until well blended. Combine the flours, flaxseed, orange zest, baking powder, cornstarch, poppy seeds, pie spice, salt and baking soda; gradually beat into pumpkin mixture until blended., Transfer to a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 350° for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely., In a small bowl, whisk the confectioners' sugar, orange zest and enough juice to achieve desired consistency. Drizzle over cake.

PUMPKIN AND CARROT LOAF WITH LEMON GINGER GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 ( 175 C) degrees fahrenheit
• Lightly grease a 9" by 5" by 3" loaf pan and set aside
• In a medium size mixing bowl stir together flour, B. Powder, B. Soda, spice and salt until well mixed and smooth.
• Pour Canola oil into a large mixing bowl and add sugar stirring until oil has completely dissolved into the sugar and no lumps remain.
• Add eggs one at a time and beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and glossy.
• Slowly add flour to the mixture and beat until flour is totally incorporated
• Fold in the carrots, pumpkin and ginger and mix well
• Pour batter into loaf pan and set in preheated oven for 1 hour or until cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean
• Remove from oven and put on rack to cool for 10 minutes
• Gently slide a butter knife around the edges to loosen it from the loaf pan and then tap it on its side and place on wire rack to cool completely
• When cooled put glaze on with a spoon over the top of loaf.

CITRUS CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 320F
• Mix the margarine and sugar together and cream until light and fluffy.
• Then beat in the eggs, one at a time.
• Stir in the fruit juices and the flour and mix well. Pour the mixture into a cake tin measuring 8"x12"x1½" which has been lined with baking parchment and spread evenly.
• Bake in the pre-heated oven for roughly 35 minutes.
• Allow the cake to cool in the tin before removal and storage in an air-tight container.

CARROT LOAF CAKE WITH TANGY LEMON GLAZE

Steps:

• Make the cake: Heat the oven to 350 degrees and set a rack in the center. Oil a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan and line it with a strip of parchment paper that hangs over the two long sides. Oil the paper, too.
• Add the light brown sugar and eggs to a large bowl and whisk vigorously until pale in color, about 2 minutes. Add the oil, cinnamon, cardamom and salt. Whisk until well combined and smooth.
• Add the flour, baking powder and baking soda, and whisk, starting slowly to incorporate the flour without spilling it, until well combined and smooth, switching to a rubber spatula if necessary. Fold in the grated carrots. The batter will be very thick.
• Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Tap the pan on the counter a few times to remove any big air bubbles.
• Bake the cake until golden and puffed and a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. Set the pan on a rack to cool for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, use the parchment paper to lift the cake out of the pan and set on the rack over a baking sheet to cool completely.
• When the cake is cool, make the glaze: Finely zest the lemon into a medium bowl. Juice the lemon, and set aside lemon juice. Add the confectioners' sugar and finely grated carrot (if using) to the bowl with the zest, along with 4 teaspoons of the lemon juice. Whisk vigorously until smooth. Add more lemon juice as needed to make a thick but pourable glaze. Pour the glaze over the cooled cake and let it set for a few minutes before slicing. Store the cake well wrapped at room temperature for 3 to 4 days.