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Treat your guests or family to a delicious, festive pumpkin loaf cake with a surprise inside!
Peek-a-Boo Pumpkin Loaf Cake
Peek-a-Boo Pumpkin Loaf Cake
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Ingredients
Hidden Pumpkin Ingredients:
- 1 C unsalted butter, room temp
- 2 C flour
- 1 C sugar
- 4 eggs, room temp
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- orange gel food coloring
- pumpkin cookie cutter
Vanilla loaf Ingredients:
- 1 C unsalted butter, room temp
- 2 C flour
- 1 C sugar
- 4 eggs, room temp
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp salt
Royal Icing Ingredients:
- 2 egg whites
- 1 C powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Orange gel food coloring
Instructions
Hidden Pumpkin Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prep a loaf pan with baking spray.
- On high speed with an electric mixer beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat after adding each of the eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla, pumpkin pie spice, and salt.
- Gradually add the flour beating on low until all ingredients are combined.
- Add several drops of the orange gel food coloring.
- Pour the orange batter into the loaf pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 50 minutes ( loaf will not be completely baked) .
- Cool in pan 15 minutes.
- Flip the loaf onto a wire rack to cool.
- Turn upright to cool completely.
- With the cookie cutter in hand measure for the width of each slice.
- Cut each slice according to the above measurement.
- Using the cookie cutter, cut out the pumpkins. Set aside.
Vanilla Loaf Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prep a loaf pan with baking spray.
- Set each pumpkin slice into the loaf pan (these should reach from one end of the loaf pan to the other end of the loaf pan).
- On high speed with an electric mixer beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beating after adding each of the eggs into the bowl, one at a time. Stir in the vanilla and salt.
- Gradually add the flour beating on low until all ingredients are combined.
- Begin by filling in the batter on both sides and in between the pumpkin slices and lastly cover the top of the pumpkin as well with the batter.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 1 hour or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean .
- Cool in pan 15 minutes.
- Flip the loaf onto a wire rack to cool.
- Turn upright to cool completely.
Royal Icing Directions:
- In the first bowl of icing add several drops of orange gel food coloring. Mix well.
- Scoop the orange icing into a piping bag with a #2 tip.
- In the second bowl this icing remains white.
- Scoop the white icing into a piping bag with a #2 tip.
- Drizzle the orange and white icing on the top of the loaf cake.
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