Your best Tgiving cake recipe

[becca]

I want to make a cake, not a pie. What is your best, disappears every time, people beg you to make, Thanksgiving cake?

[azure]

Thanksgiving... cake? This does not compute.

[tobymom04]

How about Baklava?

[becca]

Nov 18, 2016 20:10:24 GMT -5 tobymom04 said:

Baklava

For Thanksgiving?

I am thinking gingerbread, spice, maple, cranberry, etc.

[MonkeyTwirl]

Pumpkin Invention

1 - 16oz can of pumpkin
1 can Pet Evaporated Milk
1 C. Brown Sugar
1 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. nutmeg
dash of ground cloves
3 eggs

1. Mix all ingredients above and pour into greased 13 x 9 cake pan.

2. Crumble a cake mix* (a yellow, spice or carrot cake mix - Duncan Hines) on top of the pumpkin mix/

3. Sprinkle with 2 C. chopped pecans or walnuts on top.

4. Pour 2 sticks of melted butter over the top of the cake.

5. Bake for 50 - 60 minutes @ 350 degrees.


*Instead of a cake mix, I used:
2 c. sugar
2 ½ c. cake flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
3 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger

Notes:

When I had the original made with cake mix, it was like a custardy, very moist cake.
When I made it with my homemade ingredients, it was like a pumpkin pie on the bottom with a pecan pie on top.
Great warm or room temperature or refrigerated.
Serve with whipped cream flavored with brandy and sugar.

[MonkeyTwirl]

PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE

Serves 12

2 pounds cream cheese, softened
3 Tbsp. butter, softened
1 c. sugar
1 can (16 oz.) pumpkin puree (do not use pumpkin pie filling)
6 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1 c. heavy cream
2 ½ tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp. nutmeg

Place 9x13-inch baking pan filled with hot water on lower rack in oven so that cake bakes in moist heat. Preheat over to 325. Butter a 9-inch springform pan. In a large food processor (or in a large bowl with an electric mixer) combine cream cheese, butter & sugar; process until just smooth, about 40 seconds, scraping sides twice. Add pumpkin, eggs, vanilla & spices; process about 15 seconds, scraping once. DO NOT OVERMIX. Remove to large bowl. Stir in cream. Pour into prepared springform plan. Place pan on middle rack in oven, above pan of water. Bake 1.5 hours without opening door (top of cake will be set, but middle will be very soft). Turn off oven; let cake stand in over ½ hour. Remove from oven & immediately run a knife around sides of pan. Let stand at room temperature about 1 hour. Cover lightly; refrigerate about 6 hours or overnight. Drizzle each slice with about 2 TBSP. ginger sauce. Garnish with roasted salted pecans & whipped cream, if desired.

GINGER SAUCE

Makes about 1.5 cups

½ c. butter
½ c. sugar
¼ c. minced fresh ginger (Indian markets sell jars)
1 c. heavy cream
1 tsp. vanilla

In a small pan, melt butter over medium heat. Stir in sugar & ginger. Add cream; cook uncovered, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Stir in vanilla. (You can also do it in a big bowl in the microwave, stirring every minute.) Strain sauce. Cover & chill.

[jan0105]

Ice box cake. Chocolate wafers + whipped cream = amazingness

[becca]

Nov 18, 2016 20:13:41 GMT -5 MonkeyTwirl said:

PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE

No cheesecake because it needs to be non-dairy (I didn't mention that because I can sub for almost anything. But you just can't with cheesecake). This looks great, though.

[ssd]

www.canadianliving.com/food/recipe/maple-spice-cake-with-butterscotch-maple-sauce-and-sugared-pecans

[MonkeyTwirl]

Spice Cake

1 c. melted unsalted butter
2 c. sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
12 oz. sweet potato baby food
2 ½ c. flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
3 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger
12 oz. crushed pineapple in its own juice
2 c. chopped walnuts

Mix dry ingredients separately. Mix first 5 ingredients. Add dry ingredients. Add pineapple and nuts. Grease pan.

9x13 pan: 45 minutes, 325
Cupcakes: 20 minutes, 400


Lemon Frosting

½ c. unsalted butter
4 c. powdered sugar
¼ c. lemon juice
lemon rind as desired
4 T. milk or cream if needed (add 1 T. at a time)

[ssd]

My bad - should I put the actual recipe?

[shcallen]

Make that turducken cake thingy. The pies baked inside a layer cake

[becca]

Nov 18, 2016 20:19:54 GMT -5 ssd said:

My bad - should I put the actual recipe?

No, a link is fine, thanks. This looks great! Have you made it?

[becca]

Nov 18, 2016 20:21:21 GMT -5 shcallen said:

Make that turducken cake thingy. The pies baked inside a layer cake

Piecaken.

[MonkeyTwirl]

No dairy - then you won't be needing the version of the spice cake that is bundt cake with with a cream cheese tunnel.

For pumpkin invention, I don't know what the sub would be for evaporated milk. It's a pretty butter-dependent dessert.

I finally found a good butter sub - Miyako's cultured vegan butter. It's great on food, good in truffles, but I have not baked with it yet. I'm optimistic.

The spice cake recipe is really great - something different, and better, than the usual pumpkin or carrot cake. I don't know what to do about the frosting, though.

I'll email you my maple cake recipe. It's in a pdf. Sorry it's upside down. I suck at scanning.

All these recipes are tried and true.

[ssd]

Nov 18, 2016 20:21:50 GMT -5 becca said:

Nov 18, 2016 20:19:54 GMT -5 ssd said:

My bad - should I put the actual recipe?

No, a link is fine. This looks great! Have you made it?

I have. It is yummy. 

I have also made a more traditional maple-pecan (or maybe it was walnuts?) cake, with icing/frosting. Also excellent - but that is in a recipe book somewhere. 


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[becca]

Thanks, all.

[shcallen]

I like that chocolate cake of cowboys. The blog she got it from is what Megan's making I think

[lita]

Becca I don't have a cake recipe,  do have a cookie recipe that has dried cranberries, crushed macadamia nuts and white chocolate chips. It comes out like a shortbread cookie, so tender and good.  

Hope you find what you are looking for.

[Deleted]

Nov 18, 2016 20:14:22 GMT -5 jan0105 said:

Ice box cake. Chocolate wafers + whipped cream = amazingness

Same concept.  I've always wanted to make this one:  www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/mocha-chocolate-icebox-cake-recipe.html.

[Walking60]

Not cake... and I don't know if you can do this without dairy, but this is gone every year before I get to it...

Brownie trifle:
Layer brownies, chocolate pudding, cool whip & heath bar crumbles in a trifle dish, twice. Commence drooling.

[MonkeyTwirl]

I have great pumpkin muffins that can be dairy free and even vegan, which is how I like them best. However, they are not pretty and crowds think they look healthy and won't eat them. Boy, I'm not really selling these, am I? Also, I don't know if they would convert well to cake pans. They are very tender and other variations of the basic muffin recipe convert to crumbly cake.

As a consolation, here is a decadent pumpkin loaf recipe. You can call it a loaf cake.

MONKEY’S PUMPKIN FRUIT BREAD

2 c. sugar
1 c. oil
3 eggs
1- 16 oz. can cooked pumpkin
3 c. flour
1 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
1/2 t. baking powder
1 t. cinnamon
3/4 t. cloves
1/2 t. nutmeg
1 c. chopped nuts (opt.)
1 c. raisins (opt., golden raisins soaked in brandy are best)
1 c. chopped dates (opt., I never add this)

Optional but wonderful glaze:
1/2 c. brandy
1/2 c. sugar
(you can use half this amount if you're modest)



Cream oil & sugar, mix in the eggs and pumpkin 'til smooth.

Sift the dry ingredients. Add them to the wet ingredients 'til just mixed.

Add nuts, etc.

Grease pans.

2- 9x5 loaf pans, 350 degrees, 60-70 min.
or
3- 8x4 loaf pans, 350 degrees, 50 minutes.

Bake 'til a toothpick stuck in the top comes out clean, then bake 5 minutes more.

Prepare glaze: Mix brandy & sugar over heat 'til sugar dissolves.

Poke holes in hot loaf, pour on glaze. Leave loaves in pan 10 minutes before removing. Cool on wire rack.

[becca]

Nov 18, 2016 20:39:08 GMT -5 MonkeyTwirl said:

MONKEY’S PUMPKIN FRUIT BREAD

My family will never eat this, but maybe someday.

[PhoenixCruiser]

I was just going to suggest Pumpkin Cheesecake.

[michgirl80]

My sister made this Pumpkin crunch cake for our fall birthday party, and it was great!

These Cranberry bars are nice. Not too sweet.

I haven't made thisChocolate pumpkin cake, but it looks like a delicious thanksgiving cake option.