Vegan Pumpkin Spice Cake With Vanilla Maple Frosting And Spiced Food

CREAMY MAPLE FROSTING

Steps:

• Combine butter, salt, syrup, vanilla, and 1 cup of the sugar.
• Add milk and remaining sugar, alternately.
• Mix until smooth & creamy.

CHUNKY APPLE SPICE CAKE WITH VANILLA BUTTER SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F degrees.
• Beat butter and brown sugar for 5 minutes in a mixer bowl.
• Beat in eggs and vanilla just until blended.
• Set aside.
• Mix flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, allspice and salt.
• Gradually add to sugar mixture; beating until well blended.
• Stir in apples, nuts, and raisins, if desired.
• Pour into one greased 9-inch baking pan; bake 35-40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool on wire rack 10 minutes.
• Serve warm with Vanilla Butter Sauce.
• Vanilla Butter Sauce:.
• Combine butter and whipping cream with brown sugar.
• Bring to boil over medium heat.
• Reduce heat; simmer 10 minutes or until slightly thickened.
• Remove from heat; stir in vanilla.
• Serve warm.
• Do-ahead Suggestion: The cake and sauce can be prepared and refrigerated separately the day before.
• Warm the cake, in the oven, and the sauce, on top of the stove, before serving.

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.

PUMPKIN SPICE CAKE WITH MAPLE ICING

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Add pumpkin,eggs and vanilla,beat until smooth.
• Combine dry ingredients in medium bowl.
• Add one cup at a time to creamed mixture,stirring until well blended.
• Stir in nuts and raisins.
• Spoon into greased bundt pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 55-65 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan 10 minutes,then invert onto serving plate and cool completely.
• For icing: melt butter in heavy medium saucepan over medium-high heat.
• Stir in sugar,evaporated milk,and syrup.
• Bring to boil,stirring constantly,boil 6 minutes.
• Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
• Pour into medium bowl and cool 10 minutes.
• Beat for 8-10 minutes or until thick and creamy.
• Spread over top of cake.

PUMPKIN & CRANBERRY SPICE CAKE (VEGAN OR NOT)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two round baking pans.
• Combine pumpkin, spices, sugar, melted butter, soy milk and orange juice.
• Mix in flour, baking soda and powder, and salt.
• Cut cranberries in half and then add to mixture, mixing until well combined.
• Pour mixture into the two prepared baking pans and bake for approximately 35 minutes at 350 degrees.
• To make vegan buttercream frosting, mix 1 cup (1 stick) Earth Balance butter with 2 cups powdered sugar, 1/2 teaspoons vanilla, and 1/8 to 1/4 cup orange juice.
• Frost when cake is cool.

VEGAN SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and spices in a mixing bowl.
• Add vinegar, vanilla, oil, and ginger ale to the dry ingredients - stirring until just mixed.
• Fold in raisins.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 8x8 cake pan.
• Bake at 350F for 30-40 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean.

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.