welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen um so it's september
it's getting to be pumpkin pie spice
time
and so
i made a cake uh last week or a couple
of weeks ago
on the channel anyway
it appeared on the channel last week or
a couple of weeks ago whenever this
video is going to come out i'm not sure
and i made a brown butter icing for that
cake it was a chocolate cake the icing
was amazing
and i didn't use all of the icing on the
cake so i had some left over and i
my thought process is i think that icing
will go really nicely on this pumpkin
pie spice cake or pumpkin cake
so i'm going to give it a go i'm going
to see what happens
you never know until you try and we're
going to find out together whether that
icing goes on this cake so
basic cake method same cake method that
you know most of us use
i'm gonna cream some butter in the stand
mixer and once i get it nice light and
fluffy i'll put in the brown sugar
let's move on to the dry ingredients
i've got flour here
to that i'm going to add baking powder
and baking soda
salt
pretty basic at this point and then we
get into what are considered pumpkin pie
spices
and those spices are fairly loosely
defined but usually you're going to find
these five in some combination so i have
dried ginger
dried cinnamon
this is
clove
this is mace
allspice
and we'll grate in some nutmeg
and like i said different spice mixes if
you're buying it at the grocery store
will often change those up a little bit
they'll leave one or two of them out
usually what i see at the grocery store
doesn't include mace
and sometimes they leave out clothes
so really what it comes down to is
take that as sort of the base or watch
our video on making it yourself the mix
yourself and the beauty of using the
mixers or making the mix yourself or
doing it this way you're just putting in
a little bit at each time instead of
using the one you buy the grocery store
is that you can tailor it to your taste
you can up the spice that you like and
decrease the one that you don't like and
you might find that you really like mace
so the butter is is good here so i'm
gonna put in the brown sugar and i'm
gonna continue to cream that together
while that's creaming together i'll just
mix this up a little bit here
see if i can keep most of it in the bowl
so i've got that all stirred together
let's
crack the eggs in here one at a time
and i'll put in the last egg
at this point it's time for the pumpkin
now
the pumpkin
uh i'm using canned pumpkin today
i didn't have time to
go out and uh and roast a
pumpkin on my own and normally when i
when i make anything that's pumpkin i'm
actually using another squash i don't
find pumpkin even pie pumpkin even the
little tiny little pie pumpkins
to have the flavor that i associate with
pumpkin pie
and i usually use butternut squash
i'm
i'm almost certain
that this pure pumpkin uh puree that i
got out of the can today
is mostly butternut squash butternut
squash seems to make up a lot of what is
considered pumpkin in north america
canada of the united states
because
legally
both pumpkin what we think of as a
pumpkin that that orange gourd
and butternut squash
legally are considered the same thing
under labeling laws
okay the squash is in the mixture
separates as soon as you put the squash
in and that's okay
let's just scrape down the sides and
make sure that we get it all mixed
together really well
and at this point
we can start spooning in the flour
okay so you just want to mix that until
the flour is
mixed in incorporated in don't over mix
it
um jerry's still out on that but yeah
don't over mix it so
let's get this into the pans i'm gonna
cook this in two
nine inch cake pans i have buttered them
and i've put a parchment disk in the
bottom so
let's get this cleaned off
and of course it goes without saying
that you want to divide the batter
equally between the two pans
how equally is equal to you i mean some
people would put this on a scale and
make sure and if that's you go right
ahead if you're someone who just
eyeballs things like i do
do your best
smooth out the top the oven is preheated
to 350 degrees fahrenheit
and these will cook
i'm going to say somewhere between 30
and 40 minutes in my oven
your oven will be
different of course so
into the oven they go
so this is the brown butter frosting
that i made for that chocolate cake
and
i put a whole lot more than that in the
fridge someone's been snacking on it
when i wasn't looking or maybe someone
was snacking on it while i was looking
i know i dipped into it a couple times
myself so i probably don't have enough
to completely cover the cake
which is fine because i actually kind of
like a cake that's only partially
iced so i'm going to get this on in
between the layers
and on the top and we'll get julie in
for a tasting when she gets home from
work
okay
look at that
that hey glenn that's a good looking
cake hey friends is a pumpkin spice cake
pumpkin spice cake a pumpkin pumpkin
spice cake
so it's not just not just pumpkin spice
but there's actually pumpkin in the
pumpkin spice cake
and that's the browned butter icing oh i
like the brown butter icing
i thought there was more in the in the
container that was in the fridge i did
not touch any of it no no did you touch
it i guess i was the only one snacking
on it
i thought i could blame you for snacking
on it no i did not have any
well that's why only the top and the
middle layer
is
moist rich pumpkin pumpkin spice cake
i just giggled because of course
that whole
it's fall it's time for pumpkin spice
flavor you're like totally jumping in on
that good for you well get there early
i like that cake that's a nice cake it's
got a nice it's got a nice here i'm
already going in going in for more um
the pumpkin
keeps it nice and moist nice and moist
yeah it does and then the spice adds
that spice flavor that everybody
associates with pumpkin
i like the brown butter icing on it
um
so if you're looking for the brown
butter icing recipe it will be in the
description box down below with the cake
and i will try to remember to put a
time-stamped link to the video where i
actually make it it's easy it's super
easy
obviously julie likes the cake
thanks for stopping by see you again
soon
okay
that's gonna be good
mm-hmm that's gonna be real good