I asked my cousin Jill to do a guest post featuring her Thanksgiving dessert. Jill is the baker in the family. She prepares some kind of special dessert for every holiday. I’m always excited to see what she’ll create! Since I’m not going to be home for Thanksgiving this year, I asked Jill to chronicle her baking for me, and maybe I’ll get some leftovers after Turkey Day.
Jill (center) with her sisters and Plut0!
(Jill, you didn’t submit a picture of yourself. I was tempted to use the facebook picture of you sticking a Twizzler up your nose!)
Jill adapted a recipe from Woman’s World:
Pumpkin- Praline Cake with Maple Frosting
Ingredients:
- 1 package of yellow cake mix
- 1 can of pumpkin
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup of water
- 1 ½ cups of room-temperature butter
- 1 tablespoon of pumpkin pie spice
- 1 package of confectioners’ sugar
- 1/3 cup of maple syrup
- ½ teaspoon of maple extract
- Cute candies and sprinkles for decorations…whatever inspires your Thanksgiving spirit!
The Baking Process:
Jill preheated the oven to 350 degrees and coated her bundt pan with cooking spray. She used a mixer at a low speed to combine the cake mix, pumpkin, eggs, 1/2 cup of water, 1/4 cup of butter, and the pumpkin pie spice for about 30 seconds. Then she beat the mixture on high speed for about 2 minutes until it was fluffy.
Jill filled her bundt pan and then baked it for about 35/40 minutes.
Jill let her bundt cake cool for 10 minutes before she transferred the cake from the pan to a rack to let it finish cooling completely.
Jill set her mixer to medium speed and beat the remaining butter until it became fluffy. She slowly beat in the sugar, maple syrup, and extract. It took another 2 minutes for the new mixture to become fluffy.
Jill cut her bundt cake in half.
She spread the homemade icing onto the bottom piece before adding the top layer.
Jill then spread the remaining frosting over the entire bundt cake.
Jill used black sprinkles, Indian corn, and what appear to be Candy Corn-esque Hershey Kisses. (Jill, where did you get those? I MUST try some ASAP!)
Happy Pre-Thanksgiving to All….hope it’s full of cooking successes!
COMMENTS
8 Comments
1. Jon
November 23rd, 2009 12:02 PM
The cake looks delicious. Can’t wait to have a piece.
2. MelissaNibbles
November 23rd, 2009 01:46 PM
That looks yummy! I love candy corns.
Where are you going for Thanksgiving this year Melissa?
3. Melinda
November 23rd, 2009 02:21 PM
Thanks for your comments on my blog and thanks for stopping by. Love the candy corn on the cake. Too cute!
4. Julie
November 23rd, 2009 02:38 PM
That looks really good. I keep seeing all these amazing recipes I want to make for thanksgiving but I won’t have time to make them all!!
5. Kasondra
November 23rd, 2009 06:08 PM
looks like a great cake. I have to make 2 cheese cakes tomorrow!
6. Erin
November 23rd, 2009 06:35 PM
Ooo Jill, delicious! That looks so good. Now I really want to bake, ha, again.
7. Kim
November 23rd, 2009 08:33 PM
Jill that looks great. Can’t wait to try some. I will bring the rice krispy squares as usual. I have to participate in a cookie swap. Any suggestions…
8. Sklar Frederich
November 27th, 2009 12:00 AM
Wow everyone, it’s Thanksgiving Day! I’m happy with my extra day off, and I am planning to doing something fun that will probably involve a moto trip and seeing something new in McGregor I haven’t seen yet.
You write something new at Thanksgiving?