Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake

fenway
fenway @Fenway

This cake is decorated for fall, or Halloween or Thanksgiving with its orange frosting. The frosting is a buttercream cream cheese frosting flavored with Cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice. I colored it orange but it can be colored any color or left white for any occasion. The pumpkin flavor is subtle but it makes the cake very moist as well!

Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake

This cake is decorated for fall, or Halloween or Thanksgiving with its orange frosting. The frosting is a buttercream cream cheese frosting flavored with Cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice. I colored it orange but it can be colored any color or left white for any occasion. The pumpkin flavor is subtle but it makes the cake very moist as well!

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Ingredients

1 hour
10 servings
  1. THE CAKE
  2. 2 1/2 cupall-purpose flour
  3. 1 cupunseetenedcocoa powder
  4. 1 tbspbaking powder
  5. 1 1/2 tspbaking soda
  6. 1/4 tspsalt
  7. 2 tspground cinnamon
  8. 4 tspground coffee instant granules
  9. 1/2 cupbuttermilk
  10. 1/4 cupsour cream
  11. 115 ounce can pumpkin puree, pure unflavored
  12. 1 1/2 tspvanilla extract
  13. 10 ozunsalted butter, at room temperature. ( 2 1/4 sticks )
  14. 1 1/2 cupLight brown sugar
  15. 1 1/2 cupgranulated sugar
  16. 5large eggs
  17. CREAM CHEESE BUTTERCREAM PUMPKIN SPICEFROSTING
  18. 4 ozsaltedbutter, at room temperature
  19. 28 ounce packages of cream cheese, at room temperature
  20. 2 cupconfectioner's sugar
  21. 1 tsppumpkin pie spice
  22. 1/2 tspground cinnamon
  23. 1 tspvanilla extract
  24. drops of orange food color
  25. CHOCOLATE GANACHE GLAZE4
  26. 4 ozsemi sweet chocolate, chopped or chips
  27. 1/4 cupheavy whipping cream
  28. GARNISH
  29. 1/4 cuporange and black sprinkles

Cooking Instructions

1 hour
  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350. Spray 3 8- imch cake pans well with bakers spray

  2. 2

    In a bowl whisk together, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt cinnamon and coffee granules, set aside

  3. 3

    In another bowl whisk togeth r r the buttermilk, sour cream, pumpkin puree and vanilla, set aside

  4. 4

    In a large bowl beat butter and b both sugars until light and fluffy

  5. 5

    Add eggs one at a time, beating in after each egg then alternate adding flour mixture with buttermilk / pumpkin mixture in three additions mixing well but not overmixing

  6. 6

    Dividebatter evenly between prepared pans, smoothing tops.Cook for 30 to 35 minutes until toothpick comes out just clean, cool in pans on rack 10 minutes then run a knife around edges and remove from pans to cool completely

  7. 7

    MAKEFROSTING

  8. 8

    Beat together in a large bow, cream cheese and butter until smooth

  9. 9

    Beat in confectioner's sugar, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon and vanilla until light andcreamy, add drops of orange food color to make it as orange as you want

  10. 10

    FROST CAKE, place one cooled cake layer on serving plate, bottom up and add some frosting

  11. 11

    Add second layer, bottom up and frost

  12. 12

    Add third layer, also bottom up and frost entire cake. Refigerate cake at least 1 hour before glazing

  13. 13

    MAKE GLAZE. Heat cream until hot but not boiling , pour over chopped chocolate in a bowl and stir until smooth

  14. 14

    . Let glaze sit until it thickens to a spoon able glaze, about 35 minutes. Spoon over cake allowing chocolate to slide down sides of cake. Garnish with sprinkles while the chocolate is wet so they will stick. Refigerate to set chocolate at least an hour before cutting cake

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“Fenway” passed away on 2/3/2021. For the last year she tried to teach her husband of 42 years how to cook like her. Although I will never be as good of a cook as her she did pass on her passion for cooking. Therefore, I will attempt to carry on her legacy and maintain/update her site. My wife was a Registered Nurse, a licensed deep water aerobics instructor, a mother to our 2 children and a fantastic cook. We grew up in New England but have been fortunate to live all over the US. I am now retired, missing her terribly, but thankful for all the years we had together and all her cooking lessons.
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Slickgaming Mckenzie
Slickgaming Mckenzie @cook_2904873
Taste soo good i love it gonna cook it thanksgiving and for my son's birthday

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