Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Caramel Icing has a rich spicy moist crumb and is topped with an easily cooked icing that has a hint of molasses.
Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Caramel Icing
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Caramel Icing is my recipe of the day with the blogging group Bundt Bakers. We get together once per month to bakeup sweet treats in our Bundt pans.
This month we have baked up our favorite pumpkin Bundt cakes. I decided to do a nice moist cake sans any raisins or nuts. Since I make my pumpkin quick breads that way a lot. Instead, I have drenched the outside of my cake with a caramel icing .
The icing is easy to make on the stove top with just a few simple ingredients. Then just drizzle over and it sets up nicely with an incredible caramel flavor.
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Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Caramel Icing
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Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Caramel Icing

Pumpkin Bundt Cake (with Caramel Icing)
Equipment
- 10-inch Bundt pan
Ingredients
Cake Ingredients:
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 15 ounce can pumpkin puree (not pie mix)
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup cooled melted butter
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
Caramel Icing:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (1 stick)
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk (divided)
- 2 tablespoons light molasses
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups sifted powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
Prepare Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Spray a 10-inch nonstick Bundt pan with Baker's Release spray.
- Combine wet ingredients for cake in an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and mix well.
- Sift together the dry ingredients and add gradually to form a smooth batter.
- Pour cake batter into the prepared Bundt pan.
- Bake for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick tests without wet batter sticking to it.
- Cool cake 20 minutes in the pan, then turn out and finish cooling on a wire rack.
Prepare Icing:
- Whisk together the butter, brown sugar, 1/4 cup of the condensed milk, molasses and salt in a saucepan over low heat until butter melts and mixes in.
- Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and continue to simmer for three minutes without stirring whatsoever then remove from heat and cool twenty minutes.
- Meanwhile, sift the sugar into a mixing bowl.
- After twenty minutes, tilt the pan and pour the caramel into the powdered sugar.
- Add the vanilla and the remaining condensed milk and stir until smooth and of drizzling consistency.
- Drizzle over cake with a drip pan below the rack to catch any runoff.
- Allow cake to set up and dry, about half an hour.
Notes
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Oooh, pumpkin with caramel! A true taste of autumn!
That looks so moist and delicious. I wish I could stick my fork right through my monitor to your kitchen, Sue. I’m so thrilled that I found this baking group. What fun.
I recall joining to pad out my amount of cakes on the blog and am glad I did. I have to watch how much sugar I eat, so I don’t make many sweets for myself. But it has been a ton of fun making desserts for everyone else!
As you know, I am not an icing fan, but this thin layer of caramel has me drooling.
I know what you mean! It has just that right amount to add caramel flavor. Without having to scrape a bunch off.
Beautiful Bundt cake, Sue, and absolutely divine looking caramel icing!
Oh my goodness the texture of that cake looks absolutely perfect – and that gorgeous caramel icing takes this one over the top!
Oh my the caramel icing is so tempting! Beautiful Cake!
Ohhh,,I love caramel!!!
Delicious recipe, is that pumpkin is a great ingredient.