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Pumpkin Bundt Cake

Brooke Homec
This pumpkin bundt cake with brown butter glaze is a moist and warmly spiced pumpkin cake drizzled with a cinnamon brown butter glaze. It's an easy to make cake with no mixer required.
5 from 4 votes
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
cooling 1 hour
Total Time 2 hours
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 12
Calories 479 kcal

Ingredients
 

Pumpkin Bundt Cake

  • 1 cup (236.59 ml) oil any neutral oil works great
  • cups (200 g) granulated sugar
  • ¾ cup (165 g) brown sugar
  • 4 large eggs room temperature
  • 15 oz can pumpkin puree
  • cups (315 g) all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon cloves
  • 1 teaspoon ginger
  • ½ teaspoon (0.5 teaspoon) nutmeg
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon (0.5 teaspoon) salt

Brown Butter Glaze

  • 4 tablespoons salted butter browned and cooled
  • ½ teaspoon (0.5 teaspoon) cinnamon
  • 1 cup (120 g) powdered sugar
  • 2-3 tablespoons (2 tablespoons) milk warmed to room temperature

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 F. Spray a 10-12 cup bundt cake pan with cooking spray.
  • In a large bowl whisk together oil and sugars until mixed. Add eggs and pumpkin and mix all together.
  • In a medium bowl whisk together flour, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Slowly whisk in to wet batter.
  • Pour batter into prepared bundt pan. Bake for 45-55 minutes or until the edges are a golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Set aside and allow to cool before flipping and glazing.
  • While cake is baking and cooling prepare the glaze. Start by browning the butter. You'll take ¼ cup of butter (half of a stick) and melt in a medium saucepan, and then continue to cook past the point of boiling. You will do this over medium heat, past the point of the butter foaming, until it turns a nice golden brown, and has a nutty smell. Make sure you are stirring and watching it, because it will turn from perfectly brown to burnt fairly quickly. Once finished browning, pour all of it into a bowl and allow to cool.
  • Once butter is cooled down add in cinnamon, powdered sugar and milk and whisk until completely smooth. Add a bit more powered sugar or milk to get desired consistency.
  • Once cake is completely cooled drizzle the glaze over the top.

Notes

Adding 1 cup of chocolate chips, white chocolate chips or cinnamon chips would be a great addition to this cake.
Cake will give best results with room temperature ingredients. Allow them to sit out before you begin.
I have given both cups and grams as measurements. Grams will be more precise, especially when measuring flour. If you don’t have a kitchen scale, no problem! Just lightly spoon flour into your measuring cup to insure its not packed in there. Light and fluffy is the key. 

Nutrition

Calories: 479kcalCarbohydrates: 62gProtein: 5gFat: 25gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 6gMonounsaturated Fat: 13gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 72mgSodium: 320mgPotassium: 149mgFiber: 2gSugar: 41gVitamin A: 5727IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 82mgIron: 2mg
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