Fluffy Pumpkin Honey Frosting Recipes

PUMPKIN SPICE CAKE WITH HONEY FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-inch square baking pan.
• In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin-pie spice. In a large bowl, whisk eggs, sugar, butter, and pumpkin puree until combined. Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture, and mix gently until smooth.
• Turn batter into prepared pan, and smooth top. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out with just a few moist crumbs attached, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool cake 10 minutes in pan, then turn out of pan, and cool completely, right side up, on a rack.
• Make Honey Frosting: In a medium bowl, whisk butter, cream cheese, and honey until smooth.
• Spread top of cooled cake with honey frosting. Cut cake into squares to serve.

PUMPKIN FLUFF

Steps:

• Mix pumpkin, whipped topping, pudding mix, sugar, pumpkin pie spice, and vanilla extract together until blended.

HONEY FROSTING

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, whisk all ingredients until smooth.

PUMPKIN FROSTING DELUXE

Steps:

• Beat cream in a chilled glass or metal bowl with an electric mixer until soft peaks form.
• Beat confectioners' sugar, butter, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves together in a chilled bowl with an electric mixer until smooth and glossy. Fold whipped whipping cream into the butter mixture until the color is consistent. Lightly fold pumpkin puree through the cream mixture. Stir water into the frosting to thin to your desired, spreadable consistency.

HONEY-DATE PUMPKIN COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in honey and egg. Add pumpkin and milk; mix well. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in the dates, pecans and poppy seeds., Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto parchment lined baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool completely., For frosting, in a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in cream and vanilla until smooth. Frost cookies. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

PUMPKIN-HONEY CAKE

Steps:

• Make cake:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1-inch jelly roll pan with foil, leaving overhang on short sides; butter and flour foil. Sift 2 1/4 cups flour and next 5 ingredients into medium bowl. Whisk pumpkin, sour cream, honey and vanilla in small bowl to blend. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until fluffy. Gradually beat in sugar. Beat in eggs 1 at a time. Beat dry ingredients into butter mixture alternately with pumpkin mixture.
• Spread batter evenly in prepared pan. Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool in pan on rack.
• Make frosting:
• Beat cream cheese, powdered sugar, 1/3 cup pumpkin, honey and allspice in large bowl until fluffy. Beat whipping cream in medium bowl until stiff peaks form. Fold whipped cream into cream cheese mixture in 2 additions. Spoon 1 1/2 cups frosting into small bowl to use for decorating; cover and refrigerate.
• Using foil as aid, lift cake onto work surface. Cut cake crosswise into three 10 x 4-inch rectangles (reserve remaining cake for another use). Slide spatula under 1 rectangle; transfer cake to platter. Spread with 3/4 cup frosting. Top with second cake. Spread with 3/4 cup frosting. Top with third cake. Spread 1 cup frosting in thin layer over top and sides of cake to anchor crumbs. Chill 1 hour.
• Spread remaining frosting from large bowl decoratively onto sides of cake. Spoon 3/4 cup reserved frosting from small bowl into pastry bag fitted with medium star tip. Pipe frosting in diagonal lines on top of cake, spacing about 3/4 inch apart. Squeeze frosting from pastry bag back into small bowl of frosting. Mix in remaining 1/4 cup pumpkin. Spoon pumpkin frosting into pastry bag and pipe lines of shells or rosettes between frosting lines on cake. Refrigerate until frosting sets, about 2 hours. (Can be prepared 2 days ahead. Cover with foil dome and keep refrigerated. Let stand 2 hours at room temperature before serving.)

BIT-O-HONEY PUMPKIN CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease a 9x13 pan.
• Freeze the Bit-O-Honey Bars for 10 minutes.
• In a food processor, chop candy bars coursely. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer, combine oil and eggs, mix for 30 seconds on high.
• Add pumpkin, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, ginger, nutmeg and salt.
• Mix on medium 1 minute, scraping down sides of the bowl.
• Add baking powder, baking soda and flour and mix on low 30 seconds.
• Fold in chopped candy bars.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Cool before frosting.
• For the Cream Cheese Frosting:.
• In a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer, beat together the cream cheese and butter until smooth and fluffy (about 3 minutes).
• Mix in the vanilla.
• Add the confectioners' sugar and beat until thoroughly incorporated.
• Spread the frosting evenly over the top of the cooled pumpkin bars.
• Cut into 2-by-3 inch squares.

FLUFFY PUMPKIN-HONEY FROSTING

Steps:

• In a medium bowl beat cream cheese with icing sugar, 1/3 cup plus 1/4 cup pumpkin puree, honey and allspice until light and fluffy (about 3-4 minutes).
• In another bowl beat the whipping cream until stiff peaks form.
• Fold the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture in 2 additions.
• Refrigerate any unused frosting, also refrigerate cake after frosing.