Caramel Pumpkin Bundt Cake Recipes

CARAMEL PUMPKIN BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°. Prepare a 9-inch or 10-inch bundt pan by spraying liberally with cooking spray. Set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer, or a mixing bowl with handheld blender, add the sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla, pumpkin, and sour cream. Beat together until combined.
• Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Beat together until just combined and no flour pockets remain.
• Pour into the prepared bundt cake pan and cook for 45-50 minutes. * Check with a toothpick to make sure it's cooked. A toothpick should come out with moist crumbs or dry. If it comes out with wet batter then it needs to cook longer. * I like to loosley lay a piece of foil over the bundt cake during the last 20 minutes so that it does not over brown.
• Let cool in the bundt pan for 20 minutes and then invert the bundt cake onto a cooling rack. Cool completely before frosting.
• Combine butter, brown sugar, heavy cream, and salt in a small saucepan over medium-high heat.
• Bring the mixture to a boil. Once boiling turn heat to low and let simmer for 3 minutes. Do not stir during the 3 minute cook time.
• Pour the caramel into a mixing bowl and let sit at room temperature for 10-15 minutes so it can cool to lukewarm.
• Add the vanilla and powdered sugar, beat together until combined and frosting-like consistency. If it is too thick/crumbly, add more heavy cream, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the desired frosting is reached. I usually have to add 2 additional tablespoons of cream.
• Immediately drizzle or pipe the frosting over the cooled pumpkin cake. The caramel frosting hardens up rather quickly so be ready to spread it over the cake right when it's done. Don't start making the frositng until the cake is cooled completely. You can pour the frosting over the cake, drizzle it, spread it with a knife, use a piping bag with a 1A tip and pipe it on OR put the frosting into a gallon-sized Ziploc bag and snip the corner of it to pipe it on the cake.

PUMPKIN BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F with a rack in the center of the oven.
• In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, spices, and salt. Set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or a large bowl with a hand mixer), beat butter, oil, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until combined. Add the eggs, beat until combined. Add the pumpkin puree and vanilla, beating until combined and scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl as needed. Add the flour mixture and beat until no streaks of flour remain, scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl as needed.
• Thoroughly grease a 12-cup bundt pan (I use nonstick baking spray with flour). Pour the batter into the pan and spread it into an even layer. Bake for 40-50 minutes, until a long toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Place the pan on a wire rack to cool for 10 minutes, then carefully remove the cake from the pan and place the cake directly on the wire rack to cool completely.
• Using a hand mixer or stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth and combined. Add powdered sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla, beating on low speed then increasing to high (scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl as needed). Once well combined, begin adding milk 1 tablespoon at a time until you reach your desired consistency. I used between 2-3 tablespoons, I wanted the frosting thin enough to drizzle. To frost the cake as I did, add the frosting to a piping bag with the edge snipped off (I did not use a tip). Beginning on the interior of the bundt, squeeze the frosting while bringing the bag up the cake and over the side, then back up again (in a back and forth-zigzag type of pattern). Store in the fridge or at cool room temp.