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BakeKit
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BakeKit gives the occasional baker just the right ingredients for a great experience with delicious results, eliminating the rest. As a BakeKit member, you get unique, chef-created, novice-approved recipes; fresh, pre-portioned ingredients; step-by-step instructions; and at-your-door delivery.
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This looked perfect for the season!
The October 2016 BakeKit featured the ingredients and recipe to create a “Pumpkin Spice Latte Cake.” From BakeKit:
“It’s a hashtag-worthy (#PSL) flavor practically synonymous with fall, and any coffee shop worth its beans has a version of the infamous Pumpkin Spice Latte this time of year. So, we simply couldn’t resist bringing the pumpkin spice essence back to its roots in baked goods…and bringing the coffee along for the best of both worlds. It’s a cartable crowd pleaser”.
Ingredients
The box included all of the dry / canned ingredients needed in the recipe. I had to add butter (2 1/3 cup) and eggs (6).
Instructions
I was a tad thrown at first when I looked at the instructions and then on the labels on the ingredients. They didn’t match the steps on the instructions. I realized that they had broken the recipe down into groups, though.
Step #1 – Make the Topping
The first step was to make the topping. You combined the topping mixture (brown sugar and cinnamon) with sliced butter until it reached a “sandy texture.” My butter may not have been cold enough because I never got a “sandy” texture. Mine was more of a wet sand. No matter. I put it in the fridge as instruction to chill while I made the rest of the cake.
Step #2 – Make the Pumpkin Layer
The pumpkin layer consisted of canned pumpkin, sugar, salt and pumpkin pie spice. I had to add two eggs. After it was done, it was to be set aside.
Step #3 – Cake Layer
The cake layer consisted of two parts. One was mixing the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda and coffee), while the other was to mix the wet ingredients (2 cups of butter and four eggs).
After mixing those separately it was time to combine into one! None of these steps were difficult or required any special tools (or special skills).
Step #4 – Get Ready to Bake!
This is a layer cake, so 1/2 of the cake batter went in the bottom of the greased pan, followed by the pumpkin layer and then the other half of the cake layer. The top layers gets a little mixed together, but the instructions said that was fine.
The final step before putting in the oven was to sprinkle your crumble topping over the cake. Mine still felt wet, but it didn’t look sandy in the picture either, so I figured I was okay.
Step #5 – Bake
I baked the cake for 55 minutes at 325 degrees (per the instructions), and it made my house smell amazing!
All Done!
The cake turned out amazing! B (my husband and taste tester) said it needed a little more coffee / spice flavor, but he gobbled up his piece in seconds.
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