Pumpkin Chocolate Dessert Cake
Pumpkin Chocolate Dessert Cake is a vegetarian recipe with 8 servings. One serving contains 711 calories, 9g of protein, and 18g of fat. This recipe covers 18% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up sugar, flour, cocoa powder, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour.
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9 inch Bundt pan.
In a medium bowl, mix the flour, cocoa powder, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder and baking soda. In a large bowl, beat together 3/4 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, applesauce, and eggs.
Mix in 1/2 cup heavy cream and pumpkin. Stir into the flour mixture just until blended.
Spread evenly in the prepared pan.
Bake 40 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool in the pan over a wire rack. Invert cake onto a serving plate.
Place the brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, and 1/3 cup heavy cream in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil while stirring to blend until smooth. Cook until sugar is dissolved.
Whisk in the confectioner's sugar, and drizzle over the cake immediately.