Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake
Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake

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Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chocolate pumpkin layer cake using 29 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake:
  1. Prepare THE CAKE
  2. Get 2 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  3. Make ready 1 cup unseetenedcocoa powder
  4. Take 1 tbsp baking powder
  5. Get 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  6. Take 1/4 tsp salt
  7. Make ready 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  8. Get 4 tsp ground coffee instant granules
  9. Make ready 1/2 cup buttermilk
  10. Make ready 1/4 cup sour cream
  11. Make ready 1 15 ounce can pumpkin puree, pure unflavored
  12. Take 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  13. Make ready 10 oz unsalted butter, at room temperature. ( 2 1/4 sticks )
  14. Prepare 1 1/2 cup Light brown sugar
  15. Prepare 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  16. Take 5 large eggs
  17. Make ready CREAM CHEESE BUTTERCREAM PUMPKIN SPICEFROSTING
  18. Make ready 4 oz saltedbutter, at room temperature
  19. Make ready 2 8 ounce packages of cream cheese, at room temperature
  20. Prepare 2 cup confectioner's sugar
  21. Make ready 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
  22. Take 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  23. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
  24. Make ready drops of orange food color
  25. Take CHOCOLATE GANACHE GLAZE4
  26. Get 4 oz semi sweet chocolate, chopped or chips
  27. Make ready 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
  28. Get GARNISH
  29. Get 1/4 cup orange and black sprinkles

Sprinkle half of the chopped cherries on top of the frosting and lightly push down into the frosting. This rich and decadent spiced pumpkin cake is just the thing to serve for an autumn celebration, Thanksgiving or otherwise. Chocolate chips and chopped pecans are added to the pumpkin batter for extra sweetness and a bit of welcome crunch. For those who like to plan ahead, it can be made and frozen - iced and all.

Instructions to make Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 350. Spray 3 8- imch cake pans well with bakers spray
  2. In a bowl whisk together, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt cinnamon and coffee granules, set aside
  3. In another bowl whisk togeth r r the buttermilk, sour cream, pumpkin puree and vanilla, set aside
  4. In a large bowl beat butter and b both sugars until light and fluffy
  5. Add eggs one at a time, beating in after each egg then alternate adding flour mixture with buttermilk / pumpkin mixture in three additions mixing well but not overmixing
  6. Dividebatter evenly between prepared pans, smoothing tops.Cook for 30 to 35 minutes until toothpick comes out just clean, cool in pans on rack 10 minutes then run a knife around edges and remove from pans to cool completely
  7. MAKEFROSTING
  8. Beat together in a large bow, cream cheese and butter until smooth
  9. Beat in confectioner's sugar, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon and vanilla until light andcreamy, add drops of orange food color to make it as orange as you want
  10. FROST CAKE, place one cooled cake layer on serving plate, bottom up and add some frosting
  11. Add second layer, bottom up and frost
  12. Add third layer, also bottom up and frost entire cake. Refigerate cake at least 1 hour before glazing
  13. MAKE GLAZE. Heat cream until hot but not boiling , pour over chopped chocolate in a bowl and stir until smooth
  14. . Let glaze sit until it thickens to a spoon able glaze, about 35 minutes. Spoon over cake allowing chocolate to slide down sides of cake. Garnish with sprinkles while the chocolate is wet so they will stick. Refigerate to set chocolate at least an hour before cutting cake

Top the cake with the third layer and frost the top and outside of the cake with the remaining chocolate frosting. So in celebration of All Hallows 'Eve, and the epic Halloween party at the Slovak Home, I baked you these teensy- weensy Chocolate and Pumpkin Pie Layer Cakes. This recipe is part of a big, bad, awesome #virtualpumpkinparty hosted by Sara from Cake Over Steak and Amy from Twigg Studios. This is quite the shindig (almost as epic as the party at the Slovak Home. Every girl knows that pumpkins are magical, but this cake proves it!

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