Pumpkin Cake With Honey Frosting Food

PUMPKIN SPICE CAKE WITH HONEY FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-inch square baking pan.
• In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin-pie spice. In a large bowl, whisk eggs, sugar, butter, and pumpkin puree until combined. Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture, and mix gently until smooth.
• Turn batter into prepared pan, and smooth top. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out with just a few moist crumbs attached, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool cake 10 minutes in pan, then turn out of pan, and cool completely, right side up, on a rack.
• Make Honey Frosting: In a medium bowl, whisk butter, cream cheese, and honey until smooth.
• Spread top of cooled cake with honey frosting. Cut cake into squares to serve.

PUMPKIN-HONEY CAKE

Steps:

• Make cake:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1-inch jelly roll pan with foil, leaving overhang on short sides; butter and flour foil. Sift 2 1/4 cups flour and next 5 ingredients into medium bowl. Whisk pumpkin, sour cream, honey and vanilla in small bowl to blend. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until fluffy. Gradually beat in sugar. Beat in eggs 1 at a time. Beat dry ingredients into butter mixture alternately with pumpkin mixture.
• Spread batter evenly in prepared pan. Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool in pan on rack.
• Make frosting:
• Beat cream cheese, powdered sugar, 1/3 cup pumpkin, honey and allspice in large bowl until fluffy. Beat whipping cream in medium bowl until stiff peaks form. Fold whipped cream into cream cheese mixture in 2 additions. Spoon 1 1/2 cups frosting into small bowl to use for decorating; cover and refrigerate.
• Using foil as aid, lift cake onto work surface. Cut cake crosswise into three 10 x 4-inch rectangles (reserve remaining cake for another use). Slide spatula under 1 rectangle; transfer cake to platter. Spread with 3/4 cup frosting. Top with second cake. Spread with 3/4 cup frosting. Top with third cake. Spread 1 cup frosting in thin layer over top and sides of cake to anchor crumbs. Chill 1 hour.
• Spread remaining frosting from large bowl decoratively onto sides of cake. Spoon 3/4 cup reserved frosting from small bowl into pastry bag fitted with medium star tip. Pipe frosting in diagonal lines on top of cake, spacing about 3/4 inch apart. Squeeze frosting from pastry bag back into small bowl of frosting. Mix in remaining 1/4 cup pumpkin. Spoon pumpkin frosting into pastry bag and pipe lines of shells or rosettes between frosting lines on cake. Refrigerate until frosting sets, about 2 hours. (Can be prepared 2 days ahead. Cover with foil dome and keep refrigerated. Let stand 2 hours at room temperature before serving.)

BIT-O-HONEY PUMPKIN CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease a 9x13 pan.
• Freeze the Bit-O-Honey Bars for 10 minutes.
• In a food processor, chop candy bars coursely. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer, combine oil and eggs, mix for 30 seconds on high.
• Add pumpkin, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, ginger, nutmeg and salt.
• Mix on medium 1 minute, scraping down sides of the bowl.
• Add baking powder, baking soda and flour and mix on low 30 seconds.
• Fold in chopped candy bars.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Cool before frosting.
• For the Cream Cheese Frosting:.
• In a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer, beat together the cream cheese and butter until smooth and fluffy (about 3 minutes).
• Mix in the vanilla.
• Add the confectioners' sugar and beat until thoroughly incorporated.
• Spread the frosting evenly over the top of the cooled pumpkin bars.
• Cut into 2-by-3 inch squares.

PUMPKIN CAKE WITH BROWN BUTTER ICING

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-by-2-inch round cake pan. Line pan with parchment, and butter the parchment. Coat pan with flour, and tap out any excess.
• In a large bowl, sift together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, salt, baking powder, and baking soda; set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat sugar and butter together until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add eggs, and beat until combined. Add pumpkin puree and milk; beat until combined. Add reserved flour mixture; beat on low speed until just combined.
• Pour batter into prepared pan, and bake until a cake tester inserted into the middle comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Transfer the cake to a wire rack to cool. Let cake rest 20 minutes.
• Unmold cake. Using an offset spatula, spread icing over top of cake, and decorate with caramelized walnut halves.

PUMPKIN SKILLET CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Make the cake: Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 10-inch oven-safe skillet with butter. In a large bowl, whisk the oil and light brown sugar until well combined (you may need to switch to a rubber spatula after a bit). Add the eggs one at a time and mix after each addition until well incorporated. Mix in the vanilla extract.
• Add the flour, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, baking powder, baking soda and salt and mix well to combine. Add the pumpkin purée and mix until the batter is homogeneous. Pour the batter into the prepared skillet and spread into an even layer with a spatula.
• Bake the cake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean (or with just a few moist crumbs), 30 to 35 minutes. Cool completely.
• While the cake cools, make the frosting: In a medium bowl, using a rubber spatula or electric mixer, mix the butter and cream cheese until combined. Add the confectioners' sugar about 1/2 cup/60 grams at a time, mixing well to incorporate between additions. Add the vanilla and salt and mix to combine.
• Frost the cooled cake with the cream cheese frosting in an even layer. If using, sprinkle the pecans evenly over the frosting.