Sooner or later, the long summer has to end and we are greeted with the gorgeous fall season. It is time for pumpkin everything!! The flavor of the season shows up in just about everything these days from drinks to desserts. Pumpkin is the first thing on everyone’s mind whenever fall baking is on the menu. For this reason, I decided to add a twist to our favorite fall pumpkin treat. To put it differently, I wanted to bump up the pumpkin flavor to the next level. I decided to add chocolate and molasses for a rich fall flavor combination that would not be forgotten.
inspiration comes in many forms…
From time to time inspiration comes to you in more ways than a season. Specifically, when you visit your local Williams Sonoma store and see the most gorgeous Nordic ware fall baking molds. I had never seen such beautiful cakelet pans! The full sized pine cones and autumn leaves were just begging to be a part of my ever growing collection.
have you ever heard of a sweet artisan??
Around the same time, I was lucky enough to be asked to to be a sweet artisan pop up at the Edina, Minnesota Williams Sonoma! A sweet artisan is a food enthusiast who is invited to come to the store and feature their baked treats for the customers to enjoy. I absolutely love being a part of a bustling retail Saturday, because it is so inspirational to be surrounded by my fellow foodies! I like to let the cooking staff choose what they would like me to feature, and I was thrilled when they chose the autumn leaves baking pans. We also wanted to feature some of the scrumptious seasonal Williams Sonoma food items. We chose the apple cider concentrate and the pecan pumpkin butter to be incorporated into my recipes. I decided to make two different cakelet recipes to feature both items.
time to create some mouth watering glazes!
The beautiful shapes of the cakelets were the most important part of my recipe development. I decided that a syrupy glaze would be the best way to add the most flavor, and keep the shapes of the autumn pine cones and leaves. I guess at this point I should mention that I am a little cake with a lot of frosting type of girl. In addition to the glaze, I felt it was important to have some sort of sweet treat on a small portion of the cakelet. A crumbly buttery streuesel was the perfect addition to my recipe for the first delicious bite.
My special Williams Sonoma Saturday was fast approaching, so it was time to start recipe testing. The good news about recipe testing is that I can drop off my recipe creations to my ever willing client’s homes. This is also a really great way to get some recipe feedback! It is always a challenge to determine how many samples to bring to a sweet artisan Saturday. Saturdays are very busy at Williams Sonoma – Edina! We decided on 450 cakelet samples, and I am thrilled to tell you that they all had disappeared in three short hours! The apple cider and pecan pumpkin butter glazes turned out to be a hit for the fall baking season.
Printpumpkin molasses cakelets with a maple kahlua glaze
Welcome the fall baking season with the most scrumptious fall flavors. Pumpkin, molasses, apple cider, pecan pumpkin butter, and maple syrup… what are you waiting for???
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 36 autumn cakelets 1x
- Category: baking
- Method: oven
Ingredients
2 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup softened butter
2 cups sugar
2 cups mashed/canned pumpkin
4 eggs
2/3 cup molasses
3/4 –1 cup mini chocolate chips
Glaze:
1/3 cup Williams Sonoma pecan pumpkin butter
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
1/4 cup Kahlua
Streusel:
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup melted butter
2/3 – 3/4 cup craisins chopped fine
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Prepare pans with cooking spray
In a medium bowl stir together the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt – set aside
Cream butter and sugar until blended
Add the pumpkin, eggs, and molasses and mix until smooth
Add the dry ingredients and beat just until blended
Stir in the mini chips
Scoop into the prepared pans
Bake 14-15 minutes for the autumn cakelet pans – or until the tester comes out clean
While cakelets are baking make the glaze and streusel:
Glaze:
Combine ingredients in a small saucepan and cook over medium – low heat for 3-5 minutes and thickened
Steusel:
combine ingredients in bowl and set aside
When cakelets are done, remove from the oven and cool on a rack for 10 minutes
Remove from the cake mold
Brush cakelets with glaze
Sprinkle small area of cakelet with streusel
pumpkin cakelets with an apple cider glaze
Pumpkin cakelets with a rich apple cider glaze and buttery brown sugar streusel will be your new favorite fall baking treat!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 30 cakelets 1x
- Category: baking
- Method: oven
Ingredients
1 3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup butter
12 cup canola oil
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp ginger
2/3 cp sour cream
2 cups mashed/canned pumpkin
4 eggs
2/3 cup molasses
3/4 –1 cup mini chocolate chips
Glaze:
1/3 cup Williams Sonoma apple cider concentrate
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
1/4 cup kahlua
Streusel
1 cup brwon sugar
1/2 cup melted butter
2/3 – 3/4 cup craisins chopped fine
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
In a medium bowl stir together the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger – set aside
Cream butter and sugar until blended
Add the oil, eggs, sour cream, and pumpkin and mix until smooth
Add the dry ingredients and mix just until blended
Stir in the mini chips
Scoop into prepared pans
Bake for 14-15 minutes – or until tester comes out smooth
While cakelets are baking make the glaze and streusel
Glaze:
Combine glaze ingredients in a small saucepan and cook over medium low heat for 3-5 minutes until thickened
Streusel:
Combine ingredients in a bowl
When cakelets are done baking, remove from the oven and cool for 10 minutes
Remove from cakelet molds
Brush pumpkins and cakelets with apple cider glaze
Sprinkle with streusel
Keywords: pumpkin, apple cider, streusel
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