Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake
Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chocolate pumpkin layer cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chocolate pumpkin layer cake using 29 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake:
  1. Take THE CAKE
  2. Make ready 2 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  3. Prepare 1 cup unseetenedcocoa powder
  4. Prepare 1 tbsp baking powder
  5. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  6. Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
  7. Prepare 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  8. Prepare 4 tsp ground coffee instant granules
  9. Get 1/2 cup buttermilk
  10. Get 1/4 cup sour cream
  11. Get 1 15 ounce can pumpkin puree, pure unflavored
  12. Get 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  13. Get 10 oz unsalted butter, at room temperature. ( 2 1/4 sticks )
  14. Prepare 1 1/2 cup Light brown sugar
  15. Prepare 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  16. Take 5 large eggs
  17. Prepare CREAM CHEESE BUTTERCREAM PUMPKIN SPICEFROSTING
  18. Take 4 oz saltedbutter, at room temperature
  19. Take 2 8 ounce packages of cream cheese, at room temperature
  20. Make ready 2 cup confectioner's sugar
  21. Prepare 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
  22. Take 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  23. Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
  24. Prepare drops of orange food color
  25. Prepare CHOCOLATE GANACHE GLAZE4
  26. Make ready 4 oz semi sweet chocolate, chopped or chips
  27. Prepare 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
  28. Make ready GARNISH
  29. Get 1/4 cup orange and black sprinkles

Chocolate chips and chopped pecans are added to the pumpkin batter for extra sweetness and a bit of welcome crunch. For those who like to plan ahead, it can be made and frozen - iced and all. Just put the entire finished cake on a plate or a baking sheet, unwrapped, and. So in celebration of All Hallows 'Eve, and the epic Halloween party at the Slovak Home, I baked you these teensy- weensy Chocolate and Pumpkin Pie Layer Cakes.

Instructions to make Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 350. Spray 3 8- imch cake pans well with bakers spray
  2. In a bowl whisk together, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt cinnamon and coffee granules, set aside
  3. In another bowl whisk togeth r r the buttermilk, sour cream, pumpkin puree and vanilla, set aside
  4. In a large bowl beat butter and b both sugars until light and fluffy
  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. 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. MAKEFROSTING
  8. Beat together in a large bow, cream cheese and butter until smooth
  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. FROST CAKE, place one cooled cake layer on serving plate, bottom up and add some frosting
  11. Add second layer, bottom up and frost
  12. Add third layer, also bottom up and frost entire cake. Refigerate cake at least 1 hour before glazing
  13. MAKE GLAZE. Heat cream until hot but not boiling , pour over chopped chocolate in a bowl and stir until smooth
  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

This recipe is part of a big, bad, awesome #virtualpumpkinparty hosted by Sara from Cake Over Steak and Amy from Twigg Studios. This is quite the shindig (almost as epic as the party at the Slovak Home. A doctored up box cake mix starts off this chocolate pumpkin cake… but the pumpkin cream cheese frosting and pumpkin spice cake mix make it over the top! This easy layer cake is perfect for Thanksgiving dessert. Make the batter: Sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a large bowl and set aside.

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