Vegan Pumpkin Walnut 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.

PUMPKIN-WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Liberally butter a 10-inch bundt pan and dust with flour. Tap out the excess flour. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt into a bowl and set aside. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, combine the eggs and sugar and whisk on medium speed until well combined and lightened in color, about 2 minutes. Reduce the speed to low, slowly drizzle in the oil, and whisk until combined, then whisk on high speed for 1 minute to emulsify. Switch to the paddle attachment. Add the pumpkin puree to the egg mixture and mix on medium speed just until combined. Add the dry ingredients in 3 additions, mixing just until combined after each addition, approximately 5 seconds each time. Remove the bowl from the mixer and scrape down the sides with a rubber spatula. Fold in the walnuts by hand. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake until the cake springs back when touched and a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes. Transfer to wire racks and cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Run an offset spatula around the edges of the pans, then invert the cakes onto the racks and let cool for about 20 minutes longer. Serve right away, or wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate until you are ready to serve and up to 3 days. To freeze, wrap tightly in a second layer of plastic wrap and store in the freezer for up to 2 months. Serve at room temperature. Note: To make your own pumpkin puree, preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Scrub a small (about 4 pounds) sugar pumpkin well and wipe dry. Cut the pumpkin in half and place the halves, flesh-side down, on a greased cookie sheet and bake until very soft, about 1 hour. Let the pumpkin cool. Scrape out the seeds and stringy fibers and discard. Scoop out the flesh of the pumpkin and process until smooth in a food processor or pass through a food mill to make a puree. Makes about 2 1/2 cups puree.
• Chocolate Ganache: We make 20 gallons of chocolate ganache every week at Miette as it is used in or on many of the things we make. Miette's recipe for this exquisite, velvety ganache is based on a recipe by Robert Linxe in the cookbook from La Maison du Chocolat in Paris, La Maison du Chocolat: Transcendent Desserts by the Legendary Chocolatier, which is why we call it the "MDC" in the bakery. We use chocolate with 62 percent cacao. Guittard and Scharffen Berger are our preferred brands, but feel free to try any chocolate to your taste. Makes about 3 cups 10 ounces 62 percent cacao chocolate, chopped 2/3 cup (2 1/2 ounces) sifted powdered sugar 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon heavy cream 2 large egg yolks 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature Combine the chocolate and powdered sugar in a heatproof bowl. In a saucepan over medium heat, bring the cream to a gentle simmer. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Nest the bowl over a pan of simmering water to make a bain-marie. Heat, stirring, until all of the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth. Remove the bowl from the heat. Whisk the egg yolks together in a small heatproof bowl. Pour about 1/2 cup of the melted chocolate mixture into the yolks while whisking, to temper them. Pour the tempered mixture back into the pan of chocolate and whisk to combine. Add the butter and stir until smooth. Pour the hot ganache through a fine-mesh sieve into a clean heatproof bowl. Use the ganache immediately, or transfer to an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 2 weeks. Ganache does not freeze well. Next, microwave on 50 percent power for 10-second intervals, stirring between each, until the ganache reaches the desired consistency. You will usually need to add 1 or 2 tablespoons of hot water to loosen a cold ganache. For a glossy shine, it needs to return to the mixer for beating. For more specific instructions, see individual recipes.

PUMPKIN WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
• In a large bowl, mix pumpkin puree, evaporated milk, eggs, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and salt. Transfer mixture to the prepared pan. Pour dry yellow cake mix over the mixture, sprinkle with walnuts, and drizzle with melted margarine.
• Bake 35 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce heat to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C), and continue baking 15 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

PUMPKIN WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Grease bottom and side of 10 inch tube pan with removable bottom and tube; line bottom with parchment paper.
• Set aside.
• In bowl, beat butter with sugar until fluffy.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after eaach addition.
• Beat in vanilla.
• In a separate bowl, whisk tobether flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, cardamon, cloves and baking soda.
• Stir in walnuts.
• Alternately stir flour mixture and pumpkin puree into butter mixture making 3 additions of flour mixture and 2 pumpkin puree.
• Scrape batter into prepared pan.
• Streusel: In small bowl, stir together, flour, sugar and cinnamon.
• Using pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until mixture clumps together.
• Stir in walnuts.
• Sprinkle over batter in pan.
• Bake in centre of 325f degree oven until streusel is golden bown and cake tester inserted in centre comes oout clean, about 1 3/4 hours.
• Let cool in pan on rack for 15 minutes.
• Loosen side of cake with knife; holding onto centre tube, lift cake from pan.
• Let cool completely on rack.
• Run knife around tube.
• Using wide spatulas, gently lift out cake and peel off paper.
• Note: Wrap the cake in plastic wrap and store at room temperature for up to one week.
• Or overwrap in heavy duty foil and freeze for up to 2 weeks.

PUMPKIN (WALNUT) CAKE

Steps:

• Take dry ingredients: flour,baking powder, baking soda, salt & cinnamon & sift together into a bowl & set aside.
• In large bowl beat eggs on high separately with mixer.
• Gradually add sugar until beaten yellow-colored.
• Continue beating as put in corn oil. Alternate sifted dry ingredients & pumpkin by blending into the egg/sugar/oil mixture & beat on low speed.
• Stir in nuts.
• Pour into ungreased bundt pan & bake at pre-heated 350 degree oven for approx 1 hour (mine is done in usually 55min).
• Place pan on wire rack & let cool completely. Empty cake out on plate & sift confectioners sugar on top. Enjoy!

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 APPLE WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Chop walnuts and dice apples.
• Preheat the oven to 350°F In a large bowl, combine the oil, sugar, egg substitute, and vanilla.
• In a separate bowl, sift the flour, baking soda, and salt.
• Add this to the oil-and-sugar mixture and stir by hand, approximately 200 strokes, until it is thoroughly mixed.
• Fold in the walnuts and diced apples. The batter will be a little stiff.
• Pour it into a greased and floured 10-inch tube or Bundt pan or use two bread pans.
• Bake the cake at 350°F for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

VEGAN PUMPKIN WALNUT CAKE - THERMOMIX VERSION

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F or 180°C Grease and flour a 9in square cake pan.
• Mix butter and sugars 10 seconds/speed 4 - or until combined.
• Add the egg replacer, soy milk, vanilla and pumpkin. Mix 10 seconds/speed 5. Scrape down. Mix 10 seconds/speed 5 again.
• Add the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Mix 10 seconds/speed 5. Scrape down. Mix 10 seconds/speed 5 again.
• Add the walnuts and stir in by hand - the Tmix will pulverize them!
• Spoon mixture into the prepared pan. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean.