Pumpkin Spice Walnut Cake Recipes

PUMPKIN WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
• In a large bowl, mix pumpkin puree, evaporated milk, eggs, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and salt. Transfer mixture to the prepared pan. Pour dry yellow cake mix over the mixture, sprinkle with walnuts, and drizzle with melted margarine.
• Bake 35 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce heat to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C), and continue baking 15 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

WALNUT SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolk; beat well. Stir in vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg. Combine milk and vinegar. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Fold in walnuts., In a small bowl with clean beaters, beat egg white on medium speed until soft peaks form. Gradually fold into batter. Transfer to two 6-in. baking pans coated with cooking spray and dusted with flour. Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. , For frosting, in a small saucepan, combine flour and milk until smooth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until thickened. Cover; cool to room temperature., In a small bowl, cream butter and shortening. Gradually beat in sugar. Gradually add cooled milk mixture and beat for 4 minutes or until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and salt; beat well. Spread between layers and over top and sides of cake.

PUMPKIN SPICED WALNUTS

Steps:

• Line cookie sheet with cooking parchment paper.
• In 10-inch skillet, stir together all ingredients except walnuts. Cook over medium heat, stirring until honey is dissolved. Add walnuts. Increase heat; cook about 3 minutes, stirring constantly, until liquid boils. Walnuts should be completely coated.
• Turn walnuts out onto paper-lined cookie sheet. With fork, break up mixture into individual nuts. Cool completely before serving, about 30 minutes. Store in airtight container.

PUMPKIN-WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Liberally butter a 10-inch bundt pan and dust with flour. Tap out the excess flour. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt into a bowl and set aside. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, combine the eggs and sugar and whisk on medium speed until well combined and lightened in color, about 2 minutes. Reduce the speed to low, slowly drizzle in the oil, and whisk until combined, then whisk on high speed for 1 minute to emulsify. Switch to the paddle attachment. Add the pumpkin puree to the egg mixture and mix on medium speed just until combined. Add the dry ingredients in 3 additions, mixing just until combined after each addition, approximately 5 seconds each time. Remove the bowl from the mixer and scrape down the sides with a rubber spatula. Fold in the walnuts by hand. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake until the cake springs back when touched and a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes. Transfer to wire racks and cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Run an offset spatula around the edges of the pans, then invert the cakes onto the racks and let cool for about 20 minutes longer. Serve right away, or wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate until you are ready to serve and up to 3 days. To freeze, wrap tightly in a second layer of plastic wrap and store in the freezer for up to 2 months. Serve at room temperature. Note: To make your own pumpkin puree, preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Scrub a small (about 4 pounds) sugar pumpkin well and wipe dry. Cut the pumpkin in half and place the halves, flesh-side down, on a greased cookie sheet and bake until very soft, about 1 hour. Let the pumpkin cool. Scrape out the seeds and stringy fibers and discard. Scoop out the flesh of the pumpkin and process until smooth in a food processor or pass through a food mill to make a puree. Makes about 2 1/2 cups puree.
• Chocolate Ganache: We make 20 gallons of chocolate ganache every week at Miette as it is used in or on many of the things we make. Miette's recipe for this exquisite, velvety ganache is based on a recipe by Robert Linxe in the cookbook from La Maison du Chocolat in Paris, La Maison du Chocolat: Transcendent Desserts by the Legendary Chocolatier, which is why we call it the "MDC" in the bakery. We use chocolate with 62 percent cacao. Guittard and Scharffen Berger are our preferred brands, but feel free to try any chocolate to your taste. Makes about 3 cups 10 ounces 62 percent cacao chocolate, chopped 2/3 cup (2 1/2 ounces) sifted powdered sugar 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon heavy cream 2 large egg yolks 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature Combine the chocolate and powdered sugar in a heatproof bowl. In a saucepan over medium heat, bring the cream to a gentle simmer. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Nest the bowl over a pan of simmering water to make a bain-marie. Heat, stirring, until all of the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth. Remove the bowl from the heat. Whisk the egg yolks together in a small heatproof bowl. Pour about 1/2 cup of the melted chocolate mixture into the yolks while whisking, to temper them. Pour the tempered mixture back into the pan of chocolate and whisk to combine. Add the butter and stir until smooth. Pour the hot ganache through a fine-mesh sieve into a clean heatproof bowl. Use the ganache immediately, or transfer to an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 2 weeks. Ganache does not freeze well. Next, microwave on 50 percent power for 10-second intervals, stirring between each, until the ganache reaches the desired consistency. You will usually need to add 1 or 2 tablespoons of hot water to loosen a cold ganache. For a glossy shine, it needs to return to the mixer for beating. For more specific instructions, see individual recipes.

PUMPKIN SPICE WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven at 350.
• In a medium bowl stir together the first 10 ingredients listed; set aside.
• beat softened butter and shortening on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.
• Add sugar and vanilla; beat until well combined.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Measure Buttermilk in a liquid measuring cup then stir in Pumpkin. Alternately add flour mixture and buttermilk mixture to butter mixture, beating on low speed after each addition just until combined.
• Pour into prepared pans, spreading evenly.
• Bake in a 350° oven for 30 to 35 minutes (for a 9inch only 25 min) or until a wooden toothpick inserted near centers comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove cake layers from pans. Cool thoroughly on wire racks.
• CREAM CHEESE FROSTING BELOW.
• 1 8oz pk cream cheese.
• 2 cups powdered sugar (or more if you want a thicker frosting).
• 4 TBSP unsalted butter.
• 1 TBSP cream (optional).
• Combine frosting in no particular order & use. Be sure to store the cake in the fridge due to the cream cheese in the frosting.

PUMPKIN CHIP CAKE WITH WALNUTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 10-in. fluted tube pan., In a large bowl, whisk the first 8 ingredients. In another bowl, whisk eggs, pumpkin, applesauce, oil and, if desired, flavoring until blended. Add to flour mixture; stir just until moistened. Fold in chocolate chips and walnuts. , Transfer to prepared pan. Bake 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar.

SKINNY PUMPKIN SPICE MUFFINS WITH WALNUT STREUSEL

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 12-cup muffin tins.
• Sift together whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl.
• Combine pumpkin puree, egg whites, and egg in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until combined. Mix in white sugar, brown sugar, olive oil, and vanilla extract. Slowly add flour mixture to the pumpkin mixture, stirring until just combined. Fill the prepared muffin cups a little more than 1/2 full with batter.
• Combine brown sugar, diced butter, oats, walnuts, and flour for the streusel in a small bowl. Use a fork or your hands to combine until mixture resembles rough crumbs. Divide crumbs evenly amongst the muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed, about 20 minutes.

PUMPKIN WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Grease bottom and side of 10 inch tube pan with removable bottom and tube; line bottom with parchment paper.
• Set aside.
• In bowl, beat butter with sugar until fluffy.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after eaach addition.
• Beat in vanilla.
• In a separate bowl, whisk tobether flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, cardamon, cloves and baking soda.
• Stir in walnuts.
• Alternately stir flour mixture and pumpkin puree into butter mixture making 3 additions of flour mixture and 2 pumpkin puree.
• Scrape batter into prepared pan.
• Streusel: In small bowl, stir together, flour, sugar and cinnamon.
• Using pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until mixture clumps together.
• Stir in walnuts.
• Sprinkle over batter in pan.
• Bake in centre of 325f degree oven until streusel is golden bown and cake tester inserted in centre comes oout clean, about 1 3/4 hours.
• Let cool in pan on rack for 15 minutes.
• Loosen side of cake with knife; holding onto centre tube, lift cake from pan.
• Let cool completely on rack.
• Run knife around tube.
• Using wide spatulas, gently lift out cake and peel off paper.
• Note: Wrap the cake in plastic wrap and store at room temperature for up to one week.
• Or overwrap in heavy duty foil and freeze for up to 2 weeks.

PUMPKIN-WALNUT CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly butter a 9-inch springform pan.
• Mix zwieback crumbs, 1/4 cup sugar, and melted butter in a medium bowl until well combined. Press firmly into the bottom and up the sides of the prepared pan. Place in the refrigerator to chill.
• Beat cream cheese in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Add 3/4 cup white sugar and brown sugar gradually, until well mixed. Beat in eggs one at a time until mixture is light and fluffy. Add pumpkin puree, cream, and pumpkin pie spice and beat on low speed until incorporated. Pour mixture on top of the chilled crust.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour and 35 minutes.
• While the cheesecake is baking, mix brown sugar, walnuts, and butter for topping together in a small bowl until crumbly.
• Remove cheesecake from the oven and sprinkle with walnut topping. Return to the oven and bake for an additional 10 minutes.
• Remove from the oven and let cool completely. Refrigerate before serving for several hours, or overnight.

PUMPKIN SPICE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar until fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Combine the dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with pumpkin, beating just until combined. , Pour into two greased and floured 9x5-in. loaf pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 65-70 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before removing form pans to wire racks to cool completely., For sauce, combine brown sugar, cream, corn syrup and butter in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Reduce heat; cook and stir 5 minutes longer. Remove from the heat; stir in walnuts and vanilla. Serve warm over the cake.