Pumpkin Orange Cake Food

ORANGE PUMPKIN LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• Cut orange into wedges, and remove seeds. Place orange, peel and all, in a food processor. Pulse until finely chopped; set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the pumpkin, water, and the ground orange. Mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and cloves. Stir into batter just until moistened. Stir in nuts and raisins. Spoon into the prepared loaf pan.
• Bake for 1 hour in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Let stand 10 minutes, then remove from pan, and cool on a wire rack.

PUMPKIN ORANGE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. In another bowl, beat pumpkin, orange juice, milk and orange zest. Combine dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with pumpkin mixture, beating well after each addition. Fold in nuts., Pour into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack., For frosting, in a large bowl, beat butter and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Beat in the milk, orange juice and zest. Frost cake. Garnish with candied peel if desired.

PUMPKIN & CARAMEL CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line the bases of two 23cm cake tins. In a big bowl, beat the oil, cake mix, pumpkin purée, milk, eggs and spice mixture until smooth. Pour the mixture into the cake tins and bake for 22-25 mins until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in the tins while you make the filling.
• Beat the cream cheese briefly in a medium bowl until fluffy, then add the icing sugar, spice and pumpkin purée and beat until smooth. Be careful not to overbeat or it will go runny. In another bowl, whip the cream and fold it gently into the cream cheese mixture.
• When the cakes are cool, cut each one in half horizontally so you have four thin sponges. Put the bottom layer on a plate, spread with 1 tbsp dulce de leche, then smooth over a quarter of the filling. Add the next layer and repeat until you have an amazing tower of pumpkin, cake, caramel and cream, then sprinkle the pecans on top. Boom.

GREAT PUMPKIN CAKE

Steps:

• Prepare cake batter and bake in 12-cup fluted tube pan as directed on package. Cool in pan 10 min. Invert cake onto wire rack; remove pan. Cool cake completely.
• Meanwhile, beat cream cheese and butter in medium bowl with mixer until blended. Gradually beat in sugar. Spoon 1/2 cup frosting into small bowl; stir in green food coloring. Spread half the green frosting onto outside of ice cream cone; set aside. Reserve remaining frosting for later use.
• Add red and yellow food colorings to remaining white frosting to tint it orange. Spread onto cake. Invert ice cream cone in hole in top of cake for the pumpkin's stem. Pipe the reserved green frosting in vertical lines down side of cake to resemble pumpkin.

HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line a 30 x 20cm baking or small roasting tin with baking parchment. Put the flour, sugar, spice, bicarbonate of soda, sultanas and salt into a large bowl and stir to combine. Beat the eggs into the melted butter, stir in the orange zest and juice, then mix with the dry ingredients till combined. Stir in the pumpkin. Pour the batter into the tin and bake for 30 mins, or until golden and springy to the touch.
• To make the frosting, beat together the cheese, butter, icing sugar, orange zest and 1 tsp of the juice till smooth and creamy, then set aside in the fridge. When the cake is done, cool for 5 mins then turn it onto a cooling rack. Prick it all over with a skewer and drizzle with the rest of the orange juice while still warm. Leave to cool completely.
• If you like, trim the edges of the cake. Give the frosting a quick beat to loosen, then, using a palette knife, spread over the top of the cake in peaks and swirls. If you're making the cake ahead, keep it in the fridge then take out as many pieces as you want 30 mins or so before serving. Will keep, covered, for up to 3 days in the fridge.

FOUR-LAYER PUMPKIN CAKE WITH ORANGE-CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• For cake:
• Position rack in bottom third of oven; preheat to 350°F. Spray two 9-inch cake pans with 1 1/2-inch sides with nonstick spray. Line bottoms with parchment; spray parchment.
• Whisk flour and next 4 ingredients in large bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter in another large bowl until smooth. Beat in brown sugar. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating to blend between additions. Beat in pumpkin. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture in 3 additions alternately with milk in 2 additions, beating to blend between additions. Divide batter between pans.
• Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Cool in pans on rack 15 minutes. Run knife around cakes to loosen. Invert cakes onto racks. Remove parchment. Using tart pan bottom as aid, turn cakes over onto racks, top sides up, and cool completely. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap cakes in plastic and store at room temperature.
• For frosting:
• Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until smooth. Add cream cheese and orange peel; beat until smooth. Add powdered sugar and beat on low speed until smooth.
• Trim rounded tops from cakes. Using long serrated knife, cut each cake horizontally in half. Place 1 cake layer, cut side up, on large platter. Spoon 2/3 cup frosting atop cake in dollops; spread to edges. Repeat 2 more times with cake and frosting; top with remaining cake layer, cut side down. Spread remaining frosting over top and sides of cake (layer will be thin). DO AHEAD: Can be made 2 days ahead. Cover with cake dome; chill. Let stand at room temperature 1 hour before serving.
• Decorate cake with walnuts and serve.
• A spice blend that usually contains ground fennel seeds, Szechuan peppercorns, cinnamon, star anise, and cloves; available in the spice section of most supermarkets.

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

Steps:

• Cut the styrofoam sphere in half and glue it to a the cardboard base. Put the cardboard round on top of the sphere.
• Take piece of plastic wrap and put it over the half sphere and cardboard, ensuring that none of the styrofoam touches any of the cake.
• Grease the top and side of the half sphere with shortening. Wrap the greased half sphere with plastic wrap. Add a little more shortening to the plastic wrap.
• Put the cardboard cake round on flat top of plastic wrap.
• Add 1 cake round to the styrofoam sphere, cutting off a bit of the top. Frost the top of the first cake round with buttercream. Add second cake round and cut off a bit of the top. Frost the top of the second cake round with buttercream. Top with the third cake round.
• Begin carving the cake, slowly carving it down until it's the shape of a sphere. When close to the shape of sphere, start carving away some of the hard edges. Make sure the bottom edge of the cakes line up with the styrofoam sphere half. If your sphere is too tall, cut off some of the top. Exfoliate the cake, peeling off excess crumbs until you get a nice gradual curve. Discard excess cake.
• Transfer the cake/sphere to a round cake stand.
• Frost the cake and plastic covering the styrofoam using an offset spatula, pressing relatively firmly. Remove the excess buttercream. Put the cake into the refrigerator to let the buttercream harden.
• When the buttercream is hard remove the cake from the refrigerator and set aside.
• Dust a workspace with cornstarch. Using a rolling pin, flatten the orange fondant into a large round big enough to cover the cake/sphere.
• Wrap the fondant over the rolling pin or a wooden rod. Brush the excess starch off the fondant with a towel.
• Unravel the fondant over the sphere to cover it. By hand smooth out the wrinkles on orange fondant. Cut off the excess fondant at the base of the sphere. Smooth out the fondant.
• Using the clay tool, draw in pumpkin lines in the orange fondant covering. Run over lines with your finger to make sure they are nice and prominent.
• Roll out dark brown and light brown fondant for vine to wrap around sphere. Wrap the vine around base of the sphere. Push vine up to cover the broken parts of the orange fondant. Roll out extra orange fondant. Use water to attach it to the orange sphere, covering the holes you have in the orange fondant.
• Roll out more fondant, and place on base of sphere
• Roll out more dark brown and light brown fondant. Twist the dark and light brown fondant together until it starts to tear. Reserve for the base of the pumpkin.
• Fill the airbrush with red orange food coloring, and spray the creased sections of fondant first, then the entire cake. Rinse out the airbrush.
• Add the gum paste leaves to the base of the cake.
• Before you make the pumpkin's face, decide which side is going to be the front.
• Get out a nice sharp blade and a duster brush.
• Roll out enough black fondant to make the face, using cornstarch so fondant does not stick to work area. Brush excess cornstarch off the rolled out fondant.
• Use a knife to cut out the shape of the pumpkin's grin and eyes. Cut out teeth for pumpkin's grin. Use water to attach the grin to the pumpkin. Brush off the grin once it is attached to the cake.
• Use small round cutters to cut out "eyes" from fondant eyes of the pumpkin. Attach eyes to cake and brush off eyes.
• From the pieces you cut out from the eyes, use a larger round cutter to cut out crescent moons. Attach the moons to the top of the eyes as the eyebrows, and brush off the eyebrows.
• Arrange the reserved fondant twists on the base of the pumpkin.
• Take the empty airbrush and blow out some of the extra cornstarch onto the pumpkin for the effect.

ORANGE PUMPKIN CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream shortening and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in pumpkin and orange juice concentrate. Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg and allspice; add to the creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition., Pour into two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° for 28-32 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., For filling, in a large bowl, beat cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add confectioners' sugar and pie spice; beat until smooth. Fold in whipped topping and pumpkin., Cut each cake horizontally into two layers. Place bottom layer on a serving plate; spread with a fourth of the filling. Repeat layers three times. Sprinkle with pecans; drizzle with caramel topping. Store in the refrigerator.

ORANGE-CRANBERRY-DATE PUMPKIN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Grease a loaf pan.
• In a large bowl, beat together pumpkin, eggs, oil, vanilla, sugars, orange zest and grated ginger. Be sure to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl.
• In a small bowl, whisk dry ingredients together. Beat into wet mixture until well combined. Be sure to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl.
• Stir in cranberries, dates, and pecans, if desired.
• Pour into greased loaf pan and bake for 60-70 minutes, until tests clean.
• Let cool in pan for 10 minutes and then loosen edges with a butter knife and turn out onto a cooling rack.
• To serve: Dust cooled cake with powdered sugar or frost with frosting or drizzle with icing.
• Optional Frosting: Cream neufchatel and butter together. Beat in vanilla, orange zest and nutmeg. Beat in confectioner's sugar until right consistency is reached. Add orange juice if it becomes too thick. Frost cake with frosting and sprinkle pecans over the frosting, if desired. You can also cut the loaf in half and frost in between layers.
• Optional Icing: In a 1-2 cup pyrex, melt butter and white chocolate chips in the microwave for 60 seconds. Stir until smooth with a fork. Stir in nutmeg and orange zest. Stir in milk and confectioner's sugar until smooth. Drizzle over cake.
• Wrap cooled loaf with plastic wrap or foil and store at room temperature or refrigerate. Refrigerate if frosted or iced.
• To freeze: Wrap cooled loaf tightly with plastic wrap or foil and place in a Ziploc bag and freeze it for gift giving at a later date. If you frost or ice it, you can put it on a cookie sheet and freeze it until firm, then wrap it and place in a Ziploc bag.

PUMPKIN AND CORNMEAL CAKE

Steps:

• Position oven rack in middle of oven, preheat to 350 degrees.
• Butter a 9-inch bundt pan.
• With a mixer and paddle attachment, beat butter, zest and sugar until light and fluffy- about 3 minutes.
• One at a time, add egg and egg yolks, beating well and scraping sides of bowl after each addition.
• Beat in pumpkin and vanilla.
• Sift together flour, baking powder and salt, stir in cornmeal.
• Add dry mixture to pumpkin batter in 3 staqges, stirring gently but thoroughly with rubber spatula after each addition.
• Do not overwork batter.
• In a clean bowl, whip egg whites to soft peaks.
• Gently fold whites into batter with spatula until there are no longer any white streaks.
• Scrape batter into pan, smooth surface.
• Bake until top is springy when lightly touched, the sides should be pulling away from the pan and a wooden skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean- about 40-50 minutes.
• Let cool for 20 minutes and then invert cake onto a rack to cool completely.
• Dust with powdered sugar if you like.
• For Orange Syrup: In a small saucepan over low heat, combine orange juice and sugar, stirring until sugar has dissolved.
• Boil without stirring for 2 minutes.
• Serve each slice with a drizzle of warm syrup accompanied by yougurt or vanilla ice cream.

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.

PUMPKIN CAKE WITH ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Thoroughly coat a bundt pan with non-stick spray.
• In a large bowl, mix together the softened butter, sugar and brown sugar until completely blended.
• Add the eggs one at a time mixing well. Add the vanilla, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, baking powder, and the salt. Mix until well blended.
• Start adding the buttermilk, and flour, alternating back and forth between the two, and mix until thoroughly combined.
• Pour the cake batter into the bundt pan. Bake the cake for about 45 - 55 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
• Cool the cake on a rack for about 10 minutes and then remove the cake from the pan and let it cool completely.
• Mix the powdered sugar and orange juice to make a glaze. You can make the glaze as thick or as thin as you like.

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.

MINI PUMPKIN SPICE CAKES WITH ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• Cake Preparation:
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Oil and flour 8 mini bundt pans. Combine cake mix, water, oil, and eggs in large bowl. Beat for 2 minutes, or until well blended. Divide batter equally among prepared pans. Bake for 20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted near center of cakes comes out clean. Cool cakes in pans on cooling racks for 15 minutes. Invert cakes onto wire rack and cool completely.
• For the Orange Glaze:
• Heat cream in small saucepan over medium heat until just simmering; remove from heat. Add white morsels and stir until melted and smooth. Stir in food colorings, 1 drop at a time, until desired color is achieved. Drizzle glaze over cakes. Refrigerate cakes for 10 minutes, or until glaze is firm. Cover and reserve any remaining glaze.
• For the Marzipan Stems and Leaves:
• Place marzipan in medium bowl. Using latex gloves, knead food coloring, 1 drop at a time, into marzipan until desired color is achieved. Divide marzipan into 2 equal pieces. Roll 1 marzipan piece into a 12-inch-long log. Cut log crosswise into 8 equal pieces; set aside to use as stems. Flatten remaining marzipan piece, then place between 2 sheets of plastic wrap. Using rolling pin, roll out marzipan to 1/4-inch thickness. Using a leaf-shaped cookie cutter or small sharp knife, cut out 24 leaves. Decorate cakes with marzipan stems and leaves. Reheat reserved glaze. Serve cakes, passing glaze alongside.

PUMPKIN ORANGE CAKE ROLL

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 15 x 10-inch jelly roll pan with foil, your foil should be above the rim of the pan by about an inch. Sprinkle the foil with powdered sugar. Prepare the cake mix according to package directions adding 1 teaspoon of orange peel at the end of the mixing. Spread into the jelly roll pan.
• Bake for 30 minutes until the top of the cake springs back when you tough it. Immediately turn the cake out onto a prepared towel. Carefully peel the foil off. Roll the cake and the towel together starting with narrow end. Cool on a wire rack.
• Combine the pumpkin, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla extract, and remaining orange peel in a medium bowl. Carefully unroll the cake, remove towel, and spread the pumpkin mixture over the cake. Reroll cake. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup of powdered sugar. You may drizzle the jelly over the cake if desired. Serve immediately or REFRIGERATE until serving time.

PUMPKIN ORANGE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a standard loaf tin.
• Cut the orange into chunky wedges and remove the seeds. Add the orange wedges (peel left on) to a food processor and blend until very finely chopped but not pureed.
• Beat the butter and sugar together in a large bowl.
• One by one beat in the eggs.
• Add the pumpkin, chopped orange and water and stir into the batter.
• In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, spices, and salt.
• Slowly add the flour mixture to the batter until just combined.
• Mix the raisins and nuts in until well combined. Pour the batter into the greased tin.
• Bake for an hour. To test if it's cooked, insert a toothpick into the center of the cake. If cooked, it should come out clean.
• Leave the cake to stand in the tin for 10 minutes, then tip out onto a wire rack and leave to cool completely.

PUMPKIN AND ORANGE BREAKFAST CAKE WITH A FRESH ORANGE SYRUP

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9-inch fluted tube pan and set it aside. Cream the butter, sugar, and orange zest together until light and fluffy. Add the whole egg and the two egg yolks, one at a time, beating well and scraping down the sides of the bowl between each addition. Beat in the pumpkin puree.
• Sift together the flours, baking powder, and salt. Add to the pumpkin batter in three or four stages, blending gently but thoroughly after each. Stir in the final addition of dry ingredients by hand if you have been using a mixer, so as not to overwork the batter. In a clean small bowl, whip the egg whites until they hold soft peaks. Fold into the batter, then scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the surface. Bake in the center of the oven for 50 to 60 minutes, or until the top of the cake is springy when lightly touched, the sides are beginning to pull away from the sides of the pan and a wooden skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then invert onto a wire rack and cool completely. This cake keeps very well for several days, well wrapped, and it freezes beautifully for up to 2 months.
• For the syrup, combine the orange juice and sugar in a small saucepan over low heat and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Increase the heat, bringing the syrup to a boil. Boil without stirring for 2 minutes, then use immediately, or allow to cool and refrigerate for up to 3 days (reheat gently).
• To serve, place one slice of the pumpkin orange cake on each plate. Spoon a few tablespoons of the warm syrup over each piece, and accompany with a scoop of thick vanilla yogurt (for breakfast) or ice cream (for dessert).

PUMPKIN SPICE CAKE WITH ORANGE SAUCE

Steps:

• Beat margarine at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy.
• Gradually add sugar, beating well.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition.
• Stir in pumpkin and vanilla.
• Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; gradually add to sugar mixture, beating at low speed until blended after each addition.
• Pour into a greased and floured 9-inch round cakepan.
• Bake at 350F degrees 20 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan, and cool on a wire rack.
• Place a paper doily over cake; sift powdered sugar through a wire-mesh strainer over doily.
• Remove doily, and serve with Orange Sauce.
• To make the Orange Sauce----------.
• Whisk together all ingredients in a heavy saucepan until blended.
• Bring mixture to a boil over medium heat, whisking constantly; boil, whisking constantly, 1 minute.

ORANGE PUMPKIN POPPY SEED CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease and flour as 12-cup bundt pan.
• Combine cake mix, pumpkin, eggs and orange juice in a large mixer bowl.
• Beat on low speed until moistened and then beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
• Add poppy seeds and mix until blended.
• Pour into prepared bundt pan.
• Bake for 35-40 minutes or until pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes and then remove to wire rack to cool completely.
• *****FOR GLAZE****.
• Sift the powdered sugar until fine.
• Mix the powdered sugar with 2-3 tbls of orange juice in a small bowl and stir until smooth.
• Drizzle glaze over cooled cake and allow to set up before serving.