Pumpkin Spice Latte Cake
Ingredients
Cake:
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ cup dark brown sugar packed
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Simple Coffee Buttercream:
- 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter softened
- 2-3 tablespoons instant espresso powder
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 ½ tablespoons heavy cream plus more if necessary
- 4 cups confectioners’ sugar sifted only if lumpy
Simple Caramel Sauce:
- ½ recipe Chef Gail’s Simple Caramel Sauce for drizzling over the finished cake
Instructions
Make the Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Spray a 13 X 9 inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Line the bottom and up 2 of the sides of the pan with parchment paper so that it extends up and over the long sides by approximately 1 inch.
- In a large bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and pumpkin pie spice until well combined. Set aside.
- In another bowl, whisk together the pumpkin, oil, both sugars, eggs and vanilla extract.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and using a rubber spatula mix the batter just until combined.
- Pour the batter into the pan and bake for approximately 25-30 minutes or until a small knife inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool in the pan.
Make the Frosting:
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, using the whip attachment, beat the butter until light and fluffy.
- In a small bowl, dissolve espresso powder and the vanilla into the cream until dissolved.
- Add espresso and cream mixture into butter and beat until combined.
- On low speed, beat in confectioners’ sugar until mixture is of spreadable consistency, adding some more cream, if the frosting is too thick.
- The cooled cake can be transferred to a serving platter or left in the pan that it was baked in.
Assembly:
- Fill the pastry bag fitted with a medium to large star tip with buttercream, and pipe the buttercream in rows over the cake, decoratively.
- If caramel sauce is too thick, place in a microwavable container and heat just until slightly fluid. Do not heat it or it will melt the buttercream. Drizzle caramel sauce over buttercream.
Notes
Makes 1 13X9 inch rectangular cake