Showing posts with label dessert recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dessert recipes. Show all posts

Sunday, September 25, 2022

Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes

These dark chocolate pumpkin cupcakes are made with special dark cocoa and canned pumpkin, then topped with buttercream frosting and pumpkin candy for a delightful seasonal treat.

Food Lust People Love: These dark chocolate pumpkin cupcakes are made with special dark cocoa and canned pumpkin, then topped with buttercream frosting and pumpkin candy for a delightful seasonal treat.

Who remembers Pick-A-Mix? Back in the good old days, Brach’s candies were displayed in an open case in many stores with a big Pick-A-Mix sign. You helped yourself to a bag and filled it with your choice of candies, paying by the weight. Often these candy cases were near the front of the store, just by the lines for the cashiers. 

My grandmother was a real character and, while she had a generous heart where her grandchildren were concerned, she did not tolerate laziness or ineptitude well, even in us. If the store had long lines at the cashier and only one or two lanes open, Gram would instruct us each to choose a candy from the Pick-A-Mix. 

She considered that well-deserved compensation for a lengthy wait in line. As a child I was mortified to comply, but one did not argue with my grandmother! My favorites were the cinnamon or the butterscotch hard candies. 

Nowadays it’s a rare store that still has a Pick-A-Mix case, but one can buy those Brach’s candies in bags, some with seasonal variations like the autumn mix, the party mix and the old-fashioned holiday mix with red, white and green hard candies.

Can I confess that I’m not a huge fan of the autumn candy mix for eating? I do love them for decorating though! Nothing cheers up a cake, cookie or cupcake like a few candy corns or tiny pumpkins scattered about. Those instantly say autumn to me. Halloween is not far off AND Thanksgiving is coming just behind it! 

With that in mind, I’ve baked you some chocolate pumpkin cupcakes, topped with the little Autumn mix pumpkins I have on hand. Wouldn’t they be perfect as one of the desserts for your Halloween party or Thanksgiving table? 

Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes 

This recipe makes 18 cupcakes and plenty of buttercream frosting.  Using special dark cocoa ensures maximum chocolate flavor but if you don't have it, normal cocoa can be substituted. The addition of pumpkin adds a very subtle background taste even pumpkin haters might not discern, but it gives 
these cupcakes super moisture and creates a tender crumb. 

Ingredients
For the cupcake batter – makes 18:
2 1/2 cups or 315g all-purpose flour
1/4 cup or 30g extra dark special cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 cups or 355g canned pumpkin – not pie filling
1 1/2 cups or 300g granulated sugar
1/2 cup or 120ml whole milk
1/4 cup or 57g butter, melted and cooled
2 eggs

For the vanilla buttercream frosting - makes about 3-3/4 cups:
1 1/2 lbs or 675g confectioners’ sugar
1 cup or 226g butter, softened
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
6-8 tablespoons milk

To decorate – optional 
Ground cinnamon
Sparkly sugar
Candy pumpkins or candy corn
Shavings of chocolate candy

Method
Preheat oven to 350°F or 180°C and prepare your cupcakes pans by greasing them with butter or lining them with paper cupcake liners. 

Sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and baking soda in a large bowl. Set aside. 


Using your stand mixer or electric beaters, beat together the pumpkin, sugar, milk and butter. 


Add eggs in one by one, mixing well with each addition. 


Slowly add dry ingredients to wet as you mix. Mix until well combined. 


Spoon batter into your prepared cupcake cups.


Bake 20 to 25 minutes. Cupcakes are done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. 


Let cool completely before you top them with frosting. 

To make the frosting:
In large bowl, with mixer at medium-low speed, beat confectioners’ sugar, butter, vanilla, and 6 tablespoons milk until smooth and blended. 

Increase speed to medium-high; beat until frosting is light and fluffy, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. Beat in additional milk as needed for easy spreading consistency.

Use a piping bag and a large tip to decorate the cooled cupcakes with frosting. 

From high above the cupcakes, sprinkle a small pinch of cinnamon on each cupcake, along with some sparkly sugar, if desired. Top each with a tiny pumpkin or other seasonal candy.

Food Lust People Love: These dark chocolate pumpkin cupcakes are made with special dark cocoa and canned pumpkin, then topped with buttercream frosting and pumpkin candy for a delightful seasonal treat.

Enjoy!  

Food Lust People Love: These dark chocolate pumpkin cupcakes are made with special dark cocoa and canned pumpkin, then topped with buttercream frosting and pumpkin candy for a delightful seasonal treat.

It’s Sunday FunDay and today we are sharing recipes with pumpkin! Many thanks to our host, Renu of Renu Cooks. Check out all the pumpkin recipes below. 

We are a group of food bloggers who believe that Sunday should be a family fun day, so every Sunday we share recipes that will help you to enjoy your day. If you're a blogger interested in joining us, just visit our Facebook group and request to join. 



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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

German Applesauce Cake #BundtBakers

The tender crumb on this German Applesauce Cake reminds me of a buttery pound cake, but with raisins and pecans, making it perfect with a cup of tea. 

Food Lust People Love: The tender crumb on this German Applesauce Cake reminds me of a buttery pound cake, but with raisins and pecans, making it perfect with a cup of tea.

Whenever I see jars of applesauce on the grocery store shelves, I must confess that I wonder who is buying it. After all, applesauce has got to be the easy thing in the world to make. Just peel the apples, core, chop and cook down with a splash of lemon juice or water. Literally, that is the whole recipe and it doesn’t even take very long. 

The chopped apples turn to sauce in a matter of about 10 minutes or so. You can speed up the process by mashing them with a potato masher once they soften, if you are really in a hurry.  

Applesauce is a family favorite with roast pork at our house and sometimes even pork chops. The tart but naturally sweet applesauce complements the savory pork wonderful. If you haven’t tried that combination, please do! When we are in the UK, I use Bramley apples which are great for baking and cooking. If I am elsewhere, I use Granny Smiths.  

German Applesauce Cake

I made this cake using Simple Truth Organic Plant Based Egg Replacer. It’s a powder made from chia seeds and chickpeas aka garbanzo beans, specifically for recipes when eggs are a binding agent, for instance, baked goods and quick breads like pancakes or waffles. It's available from Kroger or online, if you are in the States. This recipe is adapted from one on My Patchwork Quilt

Ingredients
For the cake batter:
3/4 cup or 150g sugar 
1/3 cup + 1 tablespoon or 78g shortening plus extra for the pan
2 medium eggs (or equivalent amount egg replacer)
1 1/8 cups or 290g homemade or store-bought applesauce
3/4 cup or 110g raisins
1/2 cup or 60g chopped pecans
1 1/2 cups or 187g flour, plus extra for the pan and raisins
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda dissolved in 1 tablespoon water

For the cinnamon glaze:
1/3 cup or 41g powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 – 1  1/2 teaspoons water

Method 
Preheat oven to 350°F or 180°C. Grease and flour a 10-cup Bundt pan.

With electric beaters or in the bowl of your stand mixer, cream shortening and sugar together until light and fluffy.


Add the eggs (or egg replacement) and beat until light.


In a small mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon and salt.


Add applesauce and dissolved baking soda alternately with dry ingredients.


Toss the raisins with a sprinkle of flour then fold in the raisins and chopped pecans.


Spoon batter into your prepared pan.


Bake for 40-45 minutes, or until golden and a wooden skewer comes out clean. If it starts browning too much before it's baked through, you can cover the top lightly with foil. 


Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes then turn the cake out to cool completely before glazing. 


To make the glaze, mix the powdered sugar and cinnamon. Add water gradually till you reach drizzling consistency. 

Drizzle the cake with the cinnamon glaze. I also gave mine an extra pinch of cinnamon sprinkled on top. Because apples and cinnamon are best friends. 

Food Lust People Love: The tender crumb on this German Applesauce Cake reminds me of a buttery pound cake, but with raisins and pecans, making it perfect with a cup of tea.

Slice to serve.

Food Lust People Love: The tender crumb on this German Applesauce Cake reminds me of a buttery pound cake, but with raisins and pecans, making it perfect with a cup of tea.

Enjoy!

Amazingly, it’s already the third Thursday of the month – this summer is zipping by! – so it’s time for my Bundt Baker friends to share their recipes. Today’s theme is applesauce! Many thanks to Sneha of Sneha’s Recipe for the theme and our host, Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm for her behind the scenes work. Check out the recipes links below.


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#BundtBakers is a group of Bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake Bundts with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all of our lovely Bundts by following our Pinterest board. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. Updated links for all of our past events and more information about BundtBakers, can be found on our home page.



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Food Lust People Love: The tender crumb on this German Applesauce Cake reminds me of a buttery pound cake, but with raisins and pecans, making it perfect with a cup of tea.

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Thursday, July 21, 2022

Peach Blueberry Pound Cake #BundtBakers

This peach blueberry pound cake batter is made with pureed peach, and blueberries folded through, before baking to a rich, buttery finish. Top it with peach puree glaze and more blueberries for a wonderful seasonal dessert everyone will love. 

Food Lust People Love: This peach blueberry pound cake batter is made with pureed peach, and blueberries folded through, before baking to a rich, buttery finish. Top it with peach puree glaze and more blueberries for a wonderful seasonal dessert everyone will love.

Sometimes food holidays don’t make a bit of sense - I’m looking at you, National Cherry Month in February when there are NO CHERRIES in any US stores, never mind farmer’s markets, unless they are imported from far afield. 

Who chooses these national month celebrations anyway? If you know, please do enlighten me!

Sometimes they do get it right though. According to some food holiday lists, it’s National Blueberry Month right now and that seems appropriate since it’s actually blueberry season. Since peaches are also ripe and juicy, I decided to combine the two. 

Peach Blueberry Pound Cake

If you can’t get nice peaches, nectarines or apricots could be substituted here. I recommend freezing your blueberries until right before you mix them in. (I simply measure them out earlier in the day and put the measuring cup full in the freezer.) This helps them stay suspended in the batter. This recipe makes one 6-cup Bundt. I use my Nordic Ware 6-cup Anniversary Bundt Pan < affiliate link.

Ingredients
2/3 cup or 150g unsalted butter, melted and cooled to room temperature, plus more for greasing the pan
1 medium ripe peach, pitted
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
2 large eggs
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 2/3 cups or 208g all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting the pan 
1 cup or 200g sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
1/2 cup or 70g blueberries, plus extra for decoration, if desired

For the glaze:
2/3 cup or 83g powdered sugar

Method
Heat your oven to 325°F or 163°C. Generously butter and flour a 6-cup Bundt pan and set aside.

Add the pitted peach and the lemon juice to a food processor or blender, and blend on high until completely puréed. 

Peach puree in a small food processor

Measure out a leveled 1/2  cup of the purée - leaving the balance in the food processor - and transfer it to a mixing bowl along with the melted butter, eggs and vanilla. Whisk to combine and set aside.


In a large mixing bowl, add the flour, granulated sugar, baking powder and salt, and whisk to combine. 

Pour the flour mixture into the peach mixture, and whisk well until the batter is thoroughly combined.


Fold in the blueberries.


Spoon the batter into the prepared Bundt pan and smooth it out with your spatula.


Bake until golden brown on the top and a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean, about 55-50 minutes. Turn the cake carefully around about three-quarters of the way through baking to insure it bakes more evenly. 

Aside: I don't know if everyone has this issue but when I want to rotate my Bundt pans, they get caught on the baking shelf bars and don't turn smoothly. I avoid this problem by setting my Bundt pan on a flat pan to bake. Smooth turning! If you've got a round pizza pan, it's ideal for this purpose. 

While the cake bakes, make the glaze. Completely scrape down the sides of the food processor then add the powdered sugar.


Blend on high until combined. Cover and set aside until it’s time to glaze the cake.


Remove the Bundt from the oven.  


Allow to cool for 10 minutes before turning it out onto the wire rack. Cool completely before glazing. 


When the cake is cool, put it on a serving plate then spoon the glaze over the top. 


Decorate with more blueberries, if desired. (Hint: more blueberries are always desired, especially this month.)

Food Lust People Love: This peach blueberry pound cake batter is made with pureed peach, and blueberries folded through, before baking to a rich, buttery finish. Top it with peach puree glaze and more blueberries for a wonderful seasonal dessert everyone will love.

Enjoy! Freshly baked, I packed up this li'l cake and took it to the beach with my husband, sister, mom, and two teenage nieces. Thumbs up, all 'round. So, I'd like to add that it travels well. 

Food Lust People Love: This peach blueberry pound cake batter is made with pureed peach, and blueberries folded through, before baking to a rich, buttery finish. Top it with peach puree glaze and more blueberries for a wonderful seasonal dessert everyone will love.

As mentioned above, it’s National Blueberry Month so my fellow Bundt Baker friends are sharing recipes with those little orbs of fruity sweetness. Or sweet fruitiness. Your call. Many thanks to our host, Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm. Check out the links below. 

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#BundtBakers is a group of Bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake Bundts with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all of our lovely Bundts by following our Pinterest board. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. Updated links for all of our past events and more information about BundtBakers, can be found on our home page.


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Food Lust People Love: This peach blueberry pound cake batter is made with pureed peach, and blueberries folded through, before baking to a rich, buttery finish. Top it with peach puree glaze and more blueberries for a wonderful seasonal dessert everyone will love.

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Thursday, June 23, 2022

Passion Orange Guava Bundt Cake #BundtBakers

This Passion Orange Guava Bundt Cake is baked with the reduced juice of all three fruits for a tender, tropical cake with a delicate sponge. The glaze is optional but I highly recommend adding it for extra flavor and prettiness.

Food Lust People Love: This Passion Orange Guava Bundt Cake is baked with the reduced juice of all three fruits for a tender, tropical cake with a delicate sponge. The glaze is optional but I highly recommend adding it for extra flavor and prettiness.

This month our Bundt Bakers' host chose a prior event as our theme and asked that we recreate one of the Bundt cakes from June 2014. It was the first year of the Bundt Bakers group which we started in January after the prior group called Bundt-a-Month disbanded.

I was immediately attracted to the passion orange guava Bundt cake baked by my friend, Felice, from All That’s Left are the Crumbs. Felice and I have been baking/blogging friends for many, many years and I know that her cakes are always delicious. 

So I duly added my choice to our list and forgot all about it for a while. When it came time to bake the cake, I started searching for the juice Felice had used. It’s apparently a common combination in Hawaii where, according to Felice, it’s known as POG and Hawaiian Airlines even serve it as a welcome drink when you fly between the islands. 

Well, I’m here to tell you that I don’t think it’s being exported from Hawaii anymore. I came across lots of instances on the internet where people were asking where to get POG now. My search led me to various websites that Google told me mentioned it, but they were all out of stock. 

So I had to make my own. 

As I mentioned on my creamy avocado yogurt dip post, I brought this cake to a friend’s house for dessert, so please excuse the terrible lighting on the cut cake photo. 

Passion Orange Guava Bundt Cake

If you cannot get POG - passion orange guava juice - where you live, use 2/3 cup or 156ml of each juice to make the combo. This is probably going to leave you with three containers of juice to finish off but no worries because you can just mix them all together and pretend you are flying between the Hawaiian islands. Add some rum. I won’t tell. 

This recipe is adapted from All That’s Left are the Crumbs. Felice adapted hers from Cake Simple by Christie Matheson.

Ingredients
For the cake:
2 cups or 480ml passion-orange-guava juice (or see note above for sub amounts)
1 cup or 227g butter, at room temperature, plus extra for the Bundt pan
1 cup or 200g granulated sugar
1/2 cup, packed, or 100g light brown sugar
2 1/4 cups or 280g all-purpose flour, plus extra for the Bundt pan
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
3 eggs, at room temperature
1/2 cup or 120ml milk

For the glaze:
1 cup or 125g powdered sugar
3-4 teaspoons passion-orange-guava juice

Method
Pour the passion-orange-guava juice in a small saucepan and bring to a boil.  Lower heat and continue to cook until reduced to about half a cup. This thickens and darkens a bit as it cooks down.

Preheat the oven to 325°F and prepare your 10-cup Bundt pan by coating it generously with butter then flour. 

Whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl until thoroughly combined.


In the bowl of your stand mixer, beat the butter with the two sugars medium speed for 2 to 3 minutes, until light and fluffy.  Scrape down the bowl with a rubber spatula and add the first egg. 


Add next two eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition until incorporated. 


Beat in the reduced passion-orange-guava juice. 


With the mixer on low, add the flour mixture (in two increments) alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour and beating just until combined. 

Spoon the batter into the prepared pan, smooth the top and bake for about one hour, until a cake tester comes out clean.


Let the cake cool for about 15 minutes, then invert on to a cake rack and let it cool completely.


To make the glaze, mix 3 teaspoons juice with the powdered sugar. Add the last teaspoon of juice, if necessary, to get pouring consistency. 

When the cake is cool, drizzle or pour on the glaze.

Food Lust People Love: This Passion Orange Guava Bundt Cake is baked with the reduced juice of all three fruits for a tender, tropical cake with a delicate sponge. The glaze is optional but I highly recommend adding it for extra flavor and prettiness.

Enjoy! 

Food Lust People Love: This Passion Orange Guava Bundt Cake is baked with the reduced juice of all three fruits for a tender, tropical cake with a delicate sponge. The glaze is optional but I highly recommend adding it for extra flavor and prettiness.

Check out all the tropical Bundts my Bundt Bakers are sharing today. Many thanks to our host, Patricia of Patyco Candybar and to Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm for her behind-the-scenes assistance.

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#BundtBakers is a group of Bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake Bundts with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all of our lovely Bundts by following our Pinterest board. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. Updated links for all of our past events and more information about BundtBakers, can be found on our home page.


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Food Lust People Love: This Passion Orange Guava Bundt Cake is baked with the reduced juice of all three fruits for a tender, tropical cake with a delicate sponge. The glaze is optional but I highly recommend adding it for extra flavor and prettiness.

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Sunday, June 12, 2022

Classic Eton Mess

A Classic Eton Mess has three essential ingredients, beautifully ripe strawberries, meringue and whipped cream. It can easily be made with store-bought meringues, for a simple yet lovely dessert, pretty enough for company.

Food Lust People Love: A Classic Eton Mess has three essential ingredients, beautifully ripe strawberries, meringue and whipped cream. It can easily be made with store-bought meringues, for a simple yet lovely dessert, pretty enough for company.

The folklore behind the quintessential English dessert, Eton Mess, is that it was created when a group of Etonians, students at that famous school, were headed out for a picnic, a meringue topped with whipped cream and berries stashed in the car. The story goes that one of their dogs stepped on the dessert, crushing the meringue and generally making a mess of it. They ate it anyway and declared it delicious.

But if Wikipedia is to be believed, the truth is rather less romantic. The classic Eton mess was first mentioned in print back in 1893. To quote that source, “Eton mess was served in the 1930s in the school’s ‘sock shop’ (tuck shop), and was originally made with either strawberries or bananas mixed with ice-cream or cream. Meringue was a later addition. An Eton mess can be made with many other types of summer fruit, but strawberries are regarded as more traditional.”

Classic Eton Mess

This can be made in one big bowl from which you will serve with a spoon or in six individual bowls. The pistachios are not traditional but they add a lovely pop of green to the Classic Eton Mess. If you are making your own meringues, start one day ahead of assembling and serving this dessert to leave plenty of time for the meringues to dry out and get crunchy. 

Ingredients
1 1/2 lbs or 680g ripe strawberries
1/2 cup or 100g sugar
Pinch salt
1­-2 tablespoons orange liqueur (e.g. Triple Sec, Cointreau or Grand Marnier)
1 1⁄2 cups or 360ml whipping cream 
18 small meringues­ - homemade or store-bought 
2 tablespoons pistachio slivers, optional

Method
Hull and chop the strawberries roughly.


Put half of the chopped strawberries in a small pot with the sugar, a good pinch of salt and a tablespoon of water. 


Cook over a medium heat for about 3­-4 minutes, crushing the strawberries lightly with a fork or potato masher when they start to soften. Cook at a low boil for another 3­-4 minutes, until the strawberries and syrup that is created have thickened somewhat.


Put the hot strawberries in a heatproof bowl, stir in the orange liqueur and leave to cool. 


Stir in the rest of the strawberries. Cover with cling film and refrigerate until completely chilled.


Once the strawberries are cold, whip the cream into stiff peaks. Divide it in half and fold one quarter of the strawberries into half of the cream.

To serve, make small layers from the bottom: 
1. strawberries 
2. pink cream (with strawberries)
3. 2 small meringues, crumbled roughly 
4. white cream (plain)
5. strawberries 
6. slivered pistachios (if desired) and a whole mini meringue on top.

Food Lust People Love: A Classic Eton Mess has three essential ingredients, beautifully ripe strawberries, meringue and whipped cream. It can easily be made with store-bought meringues, for a simple yet lovely dessert, pretty enough for company.

Enjoy! 

Food Lust People Love: A Classic Eton Mess has three essential ingredients, beautifully ripe strawberries, meringue and whipped cream. It can easily be made with store-bought meringues, for a simple yet lovely dessert, pretty enough for company.


It’s Sunday FunDay and what could be more fun than some great dessert recipes. Check them all out below. Many thanks to our host, Sneha of Sneha’s Recipe

 
We are a group of food bloggers who believe that Sunday should be a family fun day, so every Sunday we share recipes that will help you to enjoy your day. If you're a blogger interested in joining us, just visit our Facebook group and request to join.


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Food Lust People Love: A Classic Eton Mess has three essential ingredients, beautifully ripe strawberries, meringue and whipped cream. It can easily be made with store-bought meringues, for a simple yet lovely dessert, pretty enough for company.




Thursday, May 19, 2022

Orange Marmalade Carrot Cake #BundtBakers

This orange marmalade carrot cake is a riff on my more traditional carrot cake recipe. The marmalade adds enormous flavor and creates a more-ish sticky glaze as well.
  
Food Lust People Love: This orange marmalade carrot cake is a riff on my more traditional carrot cake recipe. The marmalade adds enormous flavor and a sticky glaze as well.

Many years ago my mom went through a juicing phase and her refrigerator drawer was always filled with big bags of carrots. She may correct me here but I recall that her favorite was to juice a bunch of carrots and then some oranges. It was a delightful combination with the orange juice enhancing the sweetness of the carrot juice. 

For this Bundt Bakers challenge, that great flavor partnership came to mind and I decided to recreate it in cake form. The batter is a modified version of our family favorite, David’s Carrot Cake and, instead of cream cheese icing, I used more marmalade for an extra boost of orange.

Orange Marmalade Carrot Cake

I baked this cake in a 12-cup Nordic Ware anniversary Bundt pan but it would no doubt fit in a 10-cup one as well. The marmalade adds extra stickiness to the cake, which is delicious, but also means you really need to grease and flour the pan well so it comes out neatly. You have been warned!

Ingredients
2 eggs at room temperature
1 1/2 cups or 300g sugar
3/4 cup or 190 ml canola or other light oil, plus extra for greasing pan
12 oz or 340g carrots
1/2 cup or 155g orange marmalade
2 cups or 250g flour, plus extra for the pan
2 teaspoons baking powder 
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon 
½ teaspoon salt

For the glaze:
1/4 cup or 78g orange marmalade
Splash (or two) water

Method
Peel and cut the stem ends off of your carrots. Cover them with water in a medium sized pot and cook until very fork tender.  


Drain the water off and mash the carrots with a potato masher until there aren’t any lumps. Transfer the mashed carrots to a bowl and leave to cool.


When your carrots are cool and you are ready to start making the batter, preheat your oven to 350°F or 180°C and prepare your 10 or 12-cup Bundt pan by brushing it with oil (or butter) and flouring it.

Add all the ingredients to a large mixing bowl, including the cooled carrots and mix well. 
 

Scrape the bowl down with a rubber spatula and beat for about two more minutes on high.

Pour into your prepared pan.


Bake for about 45-50 minutes or until a wooden skewer inserted comes out clean. Set on a wire rack to cool for about 10 minutes. 


Use a wooden skewer or toothpick to loosen the edges of the cake and invert it on the wire rack. Leave to cool while you make the glaze. As you can see, my cake stuck in a couple of places. Let this be a reminder to you to grease and flour your pan generously!


Gently warm the marmalade in a small pot over a low heat or in a bowl in the microwave. Add small splashes of water, stirring well, until you reach a good brushing or pouring consistency. Spoon or brush the glaze on the warm cake. 


Cool completely before slicing to serve.
 
Food Lust People Love: This orange marmalade carrot cake is a riff on my more traditional carrot cake recipe. The marmalade adds enormous flavor and a sticky glaze as well.

Enjoy!

Food Lust People Love: This orange marmalade carrot cake is a riff on my more traditional carrot cake recipe. The marmalade adds enormous flavor and a sticky glaze as well.

It’s time for my Bundt Baker friends to share cake recipes again! This month our chosen ingredient is jams, preserves or marmalades, incorporated in the batter or used as a swirl. Check out all the lovely recipes we have for you below: 

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#BundtBakers is a group of Bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake Bundts with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all of our lovely Bundts by following our Pinterest board. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. Updated links for all of our past events and more information about BundtBakers, can be found on our home page.


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Food Lust People Love: This orange marmalade carrot cake is a riff on my more traditional carrot cake recipe. The marmalade adds enormous flavor and a sticky glaze as well.

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