Easiest Way to Make Perfect Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake

Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake. Blend in chocolate and vanilla extract and beat until smooth. If the frosting is too thick, add cream or milk by the tablespoon, blending well after each addition, until it reaches spreading consistency. Place one cake layer, smooth side up, on a platter.

This rich and decadent spiced pumpkin cake is just the thing to serve for an autumn celebration, Thanksgiving or otherwise. Chocolate chips and chopped pecans are added to the pumpkin batter for extra sweetness and a bit of welcome crunch. For those who like to plan ahead, it can be made and frozen - iced and all. You can cook Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake using 29 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake

1. Prepare of THE CAKE.
2. Prepare of all-purpose flour.
3. It's of unseetenedcocoa powder.
4. It's of baking powder.
5. You need of baking soda.
6. Prepare of salt.
7. Prepare of ground cinnamon.
8. It's of ground coffee instant granules.
9. You need of buttermilk.
10. It's of sour cream.
11. Prepare of 15 ounce can pumpkin puree, pure unflavored.
12. Prepare of vanilla extract.
13. You need of unsalted butter, at room temperature. ( 2 1/4 sticks ).
14. It's of Light brown sugar.
15. It's of granulated sugar.
16. You need of large eggs.
17. You need of CREAM CHEESE BUTTERCREAM PUMPKIN SPICEFROSTING.
18. You need of saltedbutter, at room temperature.
19. It's of 8 ounce packages of cream cheese, at room temperature.
20. It's of confectioner's sugar.
21. It's of pumpkin pie spice.
22. Prepare of ground cinnamon.
23. It's of vanilla extract.
24. It's of drops of orange food color.
25. Prepare of CHOCOLATE GANACHE GLAZE4.
26. You need of semi sweet chocolate, chopped or chips.
27. You need of heavy whipping cream.
28. You need of GARNISH.
29. It's of orange and black sprinkles.

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Chocolate Pumpkin Layer Cake instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350. Spray 3 8- imch cake pans well with bakers spray.
2. In a bowl whisk together, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt cinnamon and coffee granules, set aside.
3. In another bowl whisk togeth r r the buttermilk, sour cream, pumpkin puree and vanilla, set aside.
4. In a large bowl beat butter and b both sugars until light and fluffy.
5. Add eggs one at a time, beating in after each egg then alternate adding flour mixture with buttermilk / pumpkin mixture in three additions mixing well but not overmixing.
6. Dividebatter evenly between prepared pans, smoothing tops.Cook for 30 to 35 minutes until toothpick comes out just clean, cool in pans on rack 10 minutes then run a knife around edges and remove from pans to cool completely.
7. MAKEFROSTING.
8. Beat together in a large bow, cream cheese and butter until smooth.
9. Beat in confectioner's sugar, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon and vanilla until light andcreamy, add drops of orange food color to make it as orange as you want.
10. FROST CAKE, place one cooled cake layer on serving plate, bottom up and add some frosting.
11. Add second layer, bottom up and frost.
12. Add third layer, also bottom up and frost entire cake. Refigerate cake at least 1 hour before glazing.
13. MAKE GLAZE. Heat cream until hot but not boiling , pour over chopped chocolate in a bowl and stir until smooth.
14. . Let glaze sit until it thickens to a spoon able glaze, about 35 minutes. Spoon over cake allowing chocolate to slide down sides of cake. Garnish with sprinkles while the chocolate is wet so they will stick. Refigerate to set chocolate at least an hour before cutting cake.

Ingredients: For the Cake This triple layer dessert is actually crazy easy to make, and comes out in perfect layers each time! The bottom layer is a delightful pumpkin pie, the middle is a rich chocolate cake and then it's topped off with a vanilla pudding frosting that is to die for. I used to have another recipe for a chocolate pumpkin cake and must to my dismay I lost it. I also added pumpkin pie spice and vanilla to the mix. Sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together.