Best Pumpkin Seed Cake Recipes

ORANGE PUMPKIN POPPY SEED CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease and flour as 12-cup bundt pan.
• Combine cake mix, pumpkin, eggs and orange juice in a large mixer bowl.
• Beat on low speed until moistened and then beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
• Add poppy seeds and mix until blended.
• Pour into prepared bundt pan.
• Bake for 35-40 minutes or until pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes and then remove to wire rack to cool completely.
• *****FOR GLAZE****.
• Sift the powdered sugar until fine.
• Mix the powdered sugar with 2-3 tbls of orange juice in a small bowl and stir until smooth.
• Drizzle glaze over cooled cake and allow to set up before serving.

ORANGE PUMPKIN POPPY SEED CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Combine cake mix, pumpkin, eggs and orange juice. Beat on low speed of mixer until moistened. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
• 2. Add poppy seeds; mix until blended.
• 3. Pour into 2 greased and floured 9 inch layer cake pans.
• 4. Bake at 350 degrees for 28-31 minutes. Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes; remove to wire rack to cool completely.
• 5. Frost with a cream cheese icing. Can be made in a Bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes. Drizzle with a cream cheese glaze.
• 6. Cream Cheese Glaze Combine all ingredients and whisk until smooth. Add more juice, as needed, until desired consistency is reached.

PUMPKIN ORANGE POPPY SEED CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Cake: Heat oven to 350^. Grease and flour a 12 cup Bundt pan. Combine first 4 ingredients in a large mixer bowl. Beat on low until moistened. Beat on medium 2 minutes. Add poppy seeds;mix gently just until blended. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 35-40 minutes until a wooden toothpick test is taken. Cool in pan for 10 minutes; remove to wire rack to cool completely. Drizzle with glaze.

ORANGE-PUMPKIN POPPY SEED CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9 inch cake pans.
• Beat the cake mix, eggs, and orange juice together in a mixing bowl on low speed until moistened. Increase speed to medium and beat in the pumpkin. Stir in the poppy seeds. Pour the batter into the prepared pans, dividing evenly.
• Bake in preheated oven until the top springs back when lightly touched, 28 to 31 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes, then remove and place on wire racks to cool completely.

PUMPKIN SEED CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour an 8-inch round cake pan.
• Sift flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl.
• Heat a skillet over medium heat. Add pumpkin seeds and cook, stirring frequently, until lightly brown and toasted, about 5 minutes. Pour into a food processor. Blend the toasted pumpkin seeds in the food processor until sand-like in texture. Add to the flour mixture.
• Place ground flax seeds in the same skillet. Cook and stir until toasted, about 4 minutes. Mix into the flour mixture until well combined.
• Beat butter and sugar together in a bowl using an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, and vanilla extract, mixing until well combined. Add the flour-seed mixture in batches, alternating with milk, beating batter briefly after each addition until batter is fully blended. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into center of the cake comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes.

PUMPKIN-SEED CAKE

Steps:

• You will need a special tart baking form for this cake, one that is typical in Hungarian cuisine. It is like a fluted tart form, only with a rise in the middle so that the prepared tart has a naturally higher edge to keep the filling inside. (You will use the baked tart up-side down.) The dough of this cake does not allow for you to "hand-make" this edge, like with a pie crust, as it is quite runny. (I am struggling to find the correct English term for such a baking form, if there is any, so any help would be appreciated.) Of course, the cake can be made without this form as well, using the baked apricots as topping, rather than filling.
• So, first butter an approximately 28 cm diameter tart baking form, then dust with some flour. Preheat oven on gas mark 3.
• Roast the pumpkin seeds in a frying pan, then grind. If you bought whole walnuts, then grind them too.
• Mix the flour with the baking powder.
• Beat the eggs with the sugar into a thick cream. Stir in the ground roasted pumpkin seeds and the ground walnuts, then add the flour and baking powder mix. Finally, stir in the pumpkin seed oil. You will get a quite runny cake mixture.
• Pour the mixture into the prepared baking form. Put in oven and bake until golden brown about 40 minutes. Remove (but do not switch the oven off) and cool in the tin for 10 minutes, or until you can remove it from the tin, then place on a rack.
• While the cake is cooling in the tin, prepare the apricots. Put the drained apricot halves into a baking tin with 3-4 tbsp juice under them, and bake until they are soft (about 15 minutes). I personally do not use any sugar, or honey, because the canned juice is usually sweet enough.
• Once the cake is on the rack, heat the apricot jam in a small saucepan with 1 tbsp juice then brush it on to the middle (lower part) of the tart/top of the tart, depending on the baking form used. This will make it wonderfully moist.
• Once the apricots have softened, mash them a little bit and put the mash in the middle (lower part) of the tart/top of the tart, depending on the baking form used. Let it cool.
• For decoration, I divided the cake into 12 slices and used 7 walnut halves and melted dark chocolate.