Mini Pumpkin Spice Cakes With Orange Glaze 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.

PUMPKIN CAKE WITH ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease a 12 cup Bundt pan.
• Combine brown sugar and shortening in large bowl.
• Beat on low speed until creamy.
• Add the eggs one a time, beating well after each addition.
• Stir in the pumpkin and water.
• Combine the flour, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, and the salt in a medium bowl.
• Add to the pumpkin mixture, beating at low speed until well blended.
• Beat for 2 minutes at medium speed.
• Fold in the 1/2 cup of walnuts and raisins.
• Spoon into the pan.
• Bake for 55-60 minutes.
• Cool for 10 minutes before removing from the pan.
• Place cake on serving plate.
• For the glaze, combine the sugar, orange peel and orange juice.
• Stir with a spoon until well blended.
• Spoon over top of the cake, letting the excess glaze run down the sides of the cake.
• Sprinkle with additional nuts before the glaze hardens.

MINI PUMPKIN CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Cut the tops from the pumpkins and set aside. Hollow out the centers of each pumpkin and place the pumpkins onto one of the prepared baking sheets. Prepare the cake mix according to the package instructions, stirring in 1/4 cup of the pumpkin seeds at the end. Pour some cake batter into each pumpkin, filling halfway. Sprinkle the top of each with the remaining 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds.
• Lightly brush the cut side of each pumpkin top with vegetable oil and sprinkle with sugar. Place the pumpkin tops cut-side down on the other baking sheet.
• Put both baking sheets in the oven. Bake the pumpkin tops for about 25 minutes, and then set aside to cool. Bake the batter-filled pumpkins until a wooden toothpick inserted in the centers comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool completely on a cooling rack.
• Put a pumpkin top on each pumpkin cake and serve with maple syrup.

PUMPKIN BREAD WITH AN ORANGE SPICE GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• Grease 2 8"x4" loaf pans.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream together oil, eggs, pumpkin and sugar.
• Stir In orange juice.
• In another mixing bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Combine both mixtures and mix well.
• Spoon batter into pans and bake for 50-60 minutes.
• Cool in pans for 10 minutes and turn onto wire racks to finish cooling.
• Combine glaze ingredients and brush on warm, but not hot, bread.

DONNELL'S ORANGE-PUMPKIN SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a nonstick 10-inch tube pan; set aside.
• In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and continue mixing for 3 minutes. Add vanilla and zest; beat to combine. Add flour mixture, alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with the flour. Add pumpkin and mix until incorporated.
• Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Drizzle with orange glaze.