Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake With Buttermilk Icing Best Recipes

SPICY PUMPKIN BUNDT CAKE

Ingredients:

• Nonstick cooking spray, for pan
• 4 cups cake flour (not self-rising), plus more for dusting
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan
• 2 1/2 cups packed light-brown sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 1/2 cups canned pumpkin puree
• Confectioners' sugar, for dusting

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 14-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray. Dust with flour, and tap out excess.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Set aside.
• Beat butter and brown sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, on medium speed until pale and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping down sides of bowl. Reduce speed to low. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with the buttermilk. Beat until just combined. Add pumpkin puree, and beat until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake cake until golden and a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Carefully turn cake onto rack too cool completely. Before serving, dust with confectioners' sugar.

PUMPKIN-SPICE BUNDT CAKE

Ingredients:

• 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 2 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups fresh pumpkin puree or 1 1/2 cups canned pumpkin puree
• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup margarine, softened
• 3 large egg whites
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• cooking spray
• 3 tablespoons dark brown sugar or 3 tablespoons light brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon dark rum
• 1 teaspoon skim milk
• 3 tablespoons powdered sugar

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Combine first 6 ingredients; set flour mixture aside.
• Combine pumpkin and applesauce; set aside.
• Beat granulated sugar and margarine in a large bowl at medium speed of a mixer until well-blended (about 5 minutes).
• Add egg whites and vanilla, beating well.
• Add flour mixture to sugar mixture alternately with pumpkin mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Pour batter into a 12-cup Bundt pan coated with cooking spray.
• Bake at 350° for 50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from pan.
• Combine brown sugar, rum, and milk in a small saucepan, and cook over low heat until brown sugar dissolves.
• Remove sugar mixture from heat, and add powdered sugar, stirring with a whisk.
• Spoon glaze over warm cake.