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Pumpkin Cake

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Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

Cake
  • 2 cups pureed pumpkin
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 cup oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 cups All Purpose Flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½  teaspoon ground cloves
  • ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Cream Cheese Frosting
  • 16 oz cream cheese softened
  • 1.5 lbs powdered sugar
  • 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 1/4 tsp salt
Caramel sauce
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup cold water
  • 1/2 heavy cream
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp unsalted butter
Salted Pecans
  • 1.5 cups chopped pecans
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • sea salt

Method
 

Pumpkin Cake
  1. Cream pumpkin, sugar, oil, and eggs together.
  2. Add dry ingredients to the pumpkin mixture. Mix until ingredients are moistened, and then beat on medium speed for 3 minutes.
  3. Preheat oven to 350F.
  4. Prepare two 9" pans by greasing and flouring.
  5. Divide the pumpkin mixture equally between pans. 
  6. Bake for approximately 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cool for 10 minutes before turning out. Cool completely.
Cream Cheese Frosting
  1. Cream the cream cheese and butter until smooth.
  2. Slowly add the powdered sugar.
  3. Add vanilla and salt.
  4. Beat until fluffy. 
Caramel Sauce
  1. In a heavy sauce pan bring sugar and water to boil over medium heat. Do not stir.
  2. While the sugar mixture is boiling until amber in color (10-12 minutes), warm the cream.
  3. When the mixture reaches desired color, slowly whisk in warmed cream (BE CAREFUL!).
  4. Continue to whisk over heat until smooth. Pull from heat and whisk in butter and salt. 
Salted Pecans
  1. Over medium heat begin melting butter. Add pecans and stir until covered and toasted. Salt to taste. 
Cake Assembly
  1. Begin assembling cake. I split my cake layers in half to have four layers.
  2. Cake, cream frosting, salted pecans. REPEAT until the final layer.
  3. Frost the top smooth.
  4. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes. Then pour caramel on top - might need to thin with more cream - let drip over the edges. 
  5. Use pecans as garnish