Pumpkin Cake with Pecan Pie Glaze
This moist and flavorful pumpkin bundt cake is topped with a pecan pie glaze. Have the best of both worlds in one dessert!
There is something so comforting about the aromas. Because really, on a cool, crisp day, one where you are running around in your favorite pair of jeans and knee-high boots, what could be better than coming home to a kitchen that smells of cinnamon and a freshly baked Autumn dessert?
For me, the pumpkin cake can truly stand alone. It’s moist and flavorful and completely fulfilling sans topping. However, I wanted to bring something different to the table than the traditional pumpkin bundt cake. So I thought about other fall desserts and what people love to eat and my head went to Thanksgiving. No one can deny that pecan pie is a Thanksgiving crowd pleaser. So I brought the two together!
The pecan pie glaze is just like a traditional pecan pie filling; sweet and goopy, full of pecan chunks. Pour it over the pumpkin cake and you add an extra sweetness and crunchy texture to the dessert. Plus, a the bundt cake dripping with pecan pie glaze will look beautiful set up on a cake stand on your dessert table.
Pumpkin Cake with Pecan Pie Glaze
Yield: 16-20 servings
Ingredients:
- 240g (~2 1/4 cups) cake flour
- 7 ½g (1 ½ teaspoons) baking soda
- 5g (1 teaspoon) baking powder
- 2g (1 teaspoon) ground cinnamon
- 1/2g (½ teaspoon) ground cloves
- 2 ½g (½ teaspoon) salt
- 170g (12 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
- 122g (½ cup) unsweetened applesauce
- 234g (~1 cup packed) brown sugar
- 213g (~1 cup) granulated sugar
- 200g (2 large) whole eggs at room temperature
- 425gs (~2 cups) canned pumpkin (NOT pumpkin pie filling)
- 10 milliliters / 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Grease and flour a 12 or 14 cup bundt pan; set aside
3. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves and salt; set aside
4. In the large bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter, applesauce and sugars in large bowl on medium speed until light and fluffy; scrape sides and bottom of bowl with a rubber spatula
5. Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating on medium speed after each addition; beat in pumpkin and vanilla
6. Gradually add flour with mixer on low speed just until combined; do not overmix
7. Pour batter into prepared cake pan and bake 46-50 minutes until a knife inserted into cake comes out clean
8. Allow to cool for 15 minutes before inverting onto a cooling rack; set aside to cool while preparing pecan pie glaze
Notes: Adapted from an Autumn Day’s Cake in an old Gold Medal magazine
Cake can be made day before serving, just wait to make the glaze until that day. Store leftovers tightly wrapped with seran or in an airtight container up to five days. Cake can also be made and frozen in advance but glaze should be made day of serving in that case as well.
