Pumpkin Spice Mini Cakes with Orange-Maple Glaze
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 12 mini cakes
 
The perfect fall dessert to go with a cup of coffee!
Ingredients
Pumpkin Spice Mini Cakes
  • ½ stick of butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon molasses
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup pumpkin puree (canned or homemade)
  • ½ cup orange juice
  • ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
  • 1⅔ cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon orange zest
  • 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon cloves
  • ¼ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
  • ½ cup raisins
Orange Maple Glaze
  • zest and juice of ½ an orange
  • 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
  • 1½ cups powdered sugar
Instructions
Pumpkin Spice Mini Cakes
  1. Preheat oven to 350°. Either butter muffin tin or line with papers. I used a square pan for fun, but you could use a cupcake tin.
  2. Cream butter and brown sugar in a mixer for a few minutes, until light and airy. Add molasses and eggs one at a time. Beat for about 1 minute. Add pumpkin, orange juice and applesauce. Beat until just combined.
  3. In a separate bowl, sift all dry ingredients together. Lightly sprinkle a spoonful of the flour mixture over the raisins and gently toss, so raisins are coated, but not clumped with flour. This step prevents raisins from sinking to the bottom half of the cakes.
  4. Add half of the flour mixture to the pumpkin mixture and beat on a low speed until just combined. Repeat with the remaining flour. Add raisins. Stir them in with a spoon.
  5. Fill prepared muffin tin with batter. Bake at for 20-25 minutes, until you smell them and a toothpick comes out clean. (My oven is exactly 23 minutes.) Allow cakes to rest in the pan for a few minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
Orange Maple Glaze
  1. Stir juice, zest and maple syrup together in a bowl.
  2. Sift powdered sugar over juice mixture. Stir to combine.
  3. Place completely cooled cakes on a cooling rack over a baking sheet. Drizzle glaze over cakes, letting the excess run down the sides.
  4. If desired, you can scoop up the glaze from the baking sheet and repeat the process to give it an extra coating. Enjoy!
Recipe by Mamaguru at https://mamaguru.com/pumpkin-spice-mini-cakes-with-orange-maple-glaze/