Outrageously Proficient Caramel Pumpkin Snack Cake

Complete alongside a layer of ooey-gooey caramel hidden within moist as well as tender pumpkin cake, this Caramel Pumpkin Snack Cake is outrageously good!

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it's topped alongside a fluffy buttercream frosting as well as caramel drizzle.

There's only i word. Mmmmmmmmmm. Yep, that's all that's needed to beak nearly this cake.

Okay, as well as thence mmmmmmmmmm's non a existent word. But it notwithstanding perfectly describes this outrageously practiced cake.

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Simply opened upward the package, tegument dorsum the parchment newspaper foursquare from the caramel disc, as well as lay the canvas of caramel into your baked good. Easy peasy! After baking, your process volition receive got a wonderful layer of ooey-gooey, melty caramel.

Like inwards this Caramel Pumpkin Snack Cake.

See that yummy looking stripe of caramel inwards the middle of the cake? Gorgeous, isn't it?

Oh, as well as howdy ... you lot tin melt the caramel discs to do a caramel drizzle, too! Pretty cool.

So I drizzled some caramel drizzle over the cake's frosting. To hand it an extra jounce of caramel flavor. And to become far extra pretty.

But if you lot prefer your cake without frosting ... which I sometimes do {I know! I know! ... Hard to believe, but I'm genuinely non the biggest fan of frosting} ... residuum assured it's only every bit outrageously delicious without the buttercream.

Just a uncomplicated drizzle of caramel over the exceed does the trick, too!

Oh. My. Doesn't that look, good ... outrageously good??

Oh, believe me. It is.

So for a tasty afternoon snack ... or breakfast sugariness process ... or dessert ... or indulgent dinner {hey, I won't judge}, whip upward this outrageously practiced cake. Today. Like now. ... Seriously.

Caramel Pumpkin Snack Cake

Source: A Tracey creation
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

Cake:

1/2 c. unsalted butter, softened
1 c. granulated sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 c. 100% pure pumpkin puree (one fifteen oz. can)
1 3/4 c. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/8 tsp. ground allspice
1 package Concord Foods Caramel Apple Wraps (5 caramel discs)

Frosting:

12 T. unsalted butter, softened (1 1/2 sticks)
1 1/2 c. confectioners sugar
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 T. milk
small pinch salt
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon

Directions

FOR THE CAKE: Beat the butter as well as saccharide until creamy, nearly 3-4 minutes. Beat inwards the egg as well as vanilla extract. Add the pumpkin as well as shell until good combined.
Add inwards the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, as well as allspice. Mix until only combined.
Pour 1/2 of the batter into a greased 9x13-inch baking pan, spreading it evenly over the bottom of the pan. Lay iv of the caramel discs on exceed of the batter, cutting every bit needed to comprehend the batter (you volition receive got a few 'empty' spots). Spread the remaining batter over the exceed of the caramel layer. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes until a toothpick inserted inwards the pump comes out clean. Cool completely.
FOR THE FROSTING: Beat the butter inwards bowl of an electrical mixer on medium speed until fluffy, nearly 1 minute. Reduce mixer speed to low. Add confectioners' sugar, 1/2 loving cup at a time, beating for a few seconds betwixt each addition. Increase mixer speed to medium as well as shell for nearly iii minutes.
Add the milk, salt, as well as cinnamon; shell on depression speed to combine. Scrape downwardly sides as well as bottom of the bowl. Increase mixer speed to medium as well as shell until fluffy, nearly iv minutes. Spread evenly over the exceed of the cake.
FOR THE CARAMEL DRIZZLE: Place the remaining caramel disc as well as 1 teaspoon of H2O inwards a drinking glass mensuration loving cup or bowl. Microwave on high at fifteen 2nd intervals, stirring afterward every fifteen seconds, until melted as well as polish (this should alone accept xxx to 45 seconds full time). Using a spoon, drizzle over the exceed of the cake.

Note - Because of the pumpkin inwards the cake as well as milk inwards the frosting, shop the cake inwards the refrigerator. Remove from the fridge around xxx minutes (or more) prior to serving to allow it to come upward to room temperature. Its texture is much ameliorate at room temperature than cold.

Enjoy!