Vegan Pumpkin Cake Food

VEGAN PUMPKIN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Grease an 8x8 baking pan. Line the bottom with parchment paper.
• Place sugar, oil, syrup and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Whisk until sugar is dissolved.
• In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, spices and salt.
• In small alternating portions, add the flour mixture and pumpkin to the liquid ingredients. Begin and end with the flour mixture.
• Spread the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake 55 minutes to an hour.

VEGAN CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease two 9-inch round cake pans with coconut oil.
• For the cake layers: Place the walnuts on a small rimmed baking sheet and bake until golden brown, about 8 minutes. When the walnuts are completely cool, finely chop half and roughly chop the remaining half; keep separate.
• Meanwhile, whisk the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, ginger, nutmeg and salt in a medium bowl until combined and set aside. Whisk the 1/2 cup coconut oil, cane sugar, milk, applesauce and vanilla in a large bowl until smooth, then whisk in the carrots until thoroughly combined. Stir the dry mixture into the wet mixture until just combined; do not overmix. Fold in the finely chopped walnuts until just incorporated.
• Divide the batter between the prepared pans, then smooth the top into an even layer. Bake until golden brown, the edges start to pull away from the sides of the pans and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 25 to 28 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes, then turn the cakes out onto wire racks to completely cool, about 1 hour.
• For the cream cheese frosting: Beat the cream cheese and butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until smooth and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in the vanilla and salt until combined. Reduce the speed to low, then gradually add the confectioners' sugar followed by the cornstarch until combined and fluffy, scraping down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula as needed. Refrigerate until you're ready to assemble the cake.
• When the cakes are completely cool, trim the domes of each round with a large serrated knife so the tops are flat. Place 1 round, cut-side down, on a platter or cake stand. Spread 3/4 cup of the frosting evenly over top. Place the remaining round, cut-side down, on top. Frost the top and sides of the cake with 1 cup of the frosting and smooth completely to make an even crumb coat. (It's okay if some of the cake shows through. This is just the base layer of frosting.) Refrigerate for 30 minutes to let the frosting set.
• Spread the remaining frosting over the top and sides of the cake, swirling decoratively, if desired. Sprinkle the top edge of the cake with the roughly chopped walnuts. Refrigerate until the frosting is set, about 30 minutes.

SWEET AUTUMN PUMPKIN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Mix together dry ingredients for cake in bowl and set aside.
• Mix together oil, 1/2 cup maple syrup, and 1 cup sugar until well mixed.
• Add pumpkin and dry ingredients a little at a time, alternating each, but beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.
• Add maple flavoring while mixing.
• Pour batter into greased 8x8 or 9x11 pan. Make note that times given are for 8x8 so watch your cake closely.
• Bake at 375F for 25 minutes.
• For glaze, mix together all three ingredients until well mixed. If you have some powdered sugar lumps, pass the glaze through a small strainer.
• When 25 miutes is up for cake, drizzle glaze over top while it is still in the oven. Cook for five more mintes.
• Remove from oven and sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar. Cool on rack.

VEGAN PUMPKIN WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Position a rack in the center of the oven. Preheat to 350°F Grease and flour inside of a 9 inch square baking pan.
• Sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmet, and salt into a bowl. Whisk to combine well, and set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer with the whisk attachment, beat egg replacer and sugars at low speed about 2 minutes until pale. Add oil, pumpkin, milk, and vanilla and mix until blended.
• Add flour mixture at low speed in three additions, mixing just until blended. Remove bowl from mixer and stir in walnuts. Pour into pan and smooth top.
• Bake for 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on a wire rack.
• To serve, cut into squares; may frost with vanilla frosting if desired.

VEGAN PUMPKIN BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Butter & flour bundt pan (dip the corner of a paper towel in softened butter - rub all over inner surface of bundt and check to make sure it's shiny - turn on side, add 1/2 cup flour, roll around to coat, and shake out excess). Prepare buttermilk mixture by placing 2 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice or vinegar in a glass measuring cup, adding enough soymilk (~3/4 cup) in order to make a total of 3/4 cup, stir, and let stand 10 minutes.
• Combine all ingredients from flour through salt in a bowl. In a second bowl, whisk together pumpkin, buttermilk mixture, and vanilla.
• Beat softened butter and sugar at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3-5 minutes. Add the egg replacer, along with 1/2 cup water, and beat one minute. Reduce speed to low and add flour and pumpkin mixtures a little at a time, alternating each time, beginning AND ending with the flour mixture, until all mixtures are combined and the resulting batter is just smooth.
• Spoon the batter into bundt pan and shake to remove any bumps. Bake until a pick inserted in the center comes out clean, around 45-50 minutes.
• Cool in the pan for 15 minutes before inverting over a cookie rack to cool further.

VEGAN PUMPKIN SPICE CAKE WITH VANILLA MAPLE FROSTING AND SPICED

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and position rack in center of oven. Line two six-inch-diameter cake pans with 2-inch-high sides with parchment paper. Coat parchment paper and pan sides with nonstick spray. Whisk flour, baking soda, spices, salt, and sugar in a large bowl to blend well. Whisk pumpkin, oil, maple extract, vanilla extract, and cider together in small bowl to blend well, then whisk into the flour mixture until well blended. Whisk in cider vinegar and stir quickly (pale swirls will be in the batter, which is the baking soda reacting with the vinegar, which allows the cake to rise since there are no eggs). Transfer cake batter to prepared pan and bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 25-30 minutes. Cool cake completely in pan on rack, about 1 hour. Cut around sides of pan to loosen. Turn cake out onto platter; peel off parchment paper. Let cool completely, then place in the fridge to chill until very cold to make slicing easier (since cakes with no eggs crumble easier). When chilled, slice cakes horizontally in half so that you have 4 layers.
• To make spiced pepitas, heat oven to 375, line a baking sheet with foil, and spray with non-stick spray. Toss seeds with agave nectar, sugar, spices, and sea salt and mix until well combined. Spread out on prepared sheet, and bake for 10-15 minutes until seeds are fragrant and toasted. Remove pan from oven and let cool completley. Set aside until finished frosting the cake. You will only need some of these for the cake decorations, so you can snack on the rest!
• To make frosting, beat cream cheese in a large bowl until very fluffy and smooth, Then beat in remaining ingredients until well blended. To assemble cake, place a layer of cake on a plate, and spoon a heaping 1/2 cup frosting over, almost to the sides, then top with another layer and repeat. Top with another cake layer, another frosting layer, then the top cake layer. Spread the frosting over the top and the sides of the cake, and press spiced pepitas decoratively around the top of the cake, and a couple in the middle on the top. Place around the bottom of the cake as well. If you have leftover frosting, you can also pipe some of it decoratively on top of the cake. Chill the cake at least a few hours to set filling before serving.
• *if you would like a 4 layer 9 inch cake, double this entire recipe and bake in two 9 inch cake pans.