Pumpkin Pie Cake

By CookingLight.com, CookingLight.com

Published January 03, 2017

(CookingLight.com)

If you like pumpkin pie, you'll love this cake's subtle spice flavors and velvety cream cheese frosting. The slightly sweet and mild pecans add a pleasant crunch to the smooth frosting. Pumpkin-pie spice is a combination of warm spices: cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, and mace. Use it to enliven applesauce, vanilla ice cream, or tea.

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Servings: 16

Ingredients:

Cooking Spray

2 tablespoon all-purpose flour

1 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1/4 cup canola oil

1/2 cup egg substitute

2 large eggs

1 (15-Ounce) can unsweetened pumpkin

2 cup all-purpose flour (about 9 ounces)

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoon pumpkin-pie spice

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoon butter, softened

1 (8-Ounce) package 1/3-less-fat cream cheese

3 cup powedered sugar

2 teaspoon fresh orange juice

1/4 cup chopped pecans, toasted

Orange slices (optional)

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350°.

To prepare cake, coat 2 (8-inch) round cake pans with cooking spray. Dust pans evenly with 2 tablespoons flour.

Combine 1 cup granulated sugar, brown sugar, and oil in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed 2 minutes or until well blended. Add egg substitute and eggs; beat until well blended. Add pumpkin, beating until blended.

Lightly spoon 2 cups flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour, baking powder, and next 3 ingredients (through salt) in a medium bowl. Gradually add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture, beating just until blended. Spoon batter into prepared pans. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes on a wire rack. Remove cake from pans; cool completely on wire rack.

To prepare frosting, beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating until blended (do not overbeat). Add juice, stirring until blended.

Place 1 cake layer on a serving plate. Spread 1 cup frosting over layer, and top with remaining cake layer. Spread remaining frosting over top of cake. Sprinkle with pecans, and garnish with orange slices, if desired.

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