Pumpkin Praline Torte
Pumpkin Praline Torte is a vegetarian recipe with 15 servings. One serving contains 423 calories, 5g of protein, and 23g of fat. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 1 person found this recipe to be flavorful and satisfying. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. If you have flour, baking soda, salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.
Instructions
Combine first 3 ingredients in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat 5 minutes, stirring constantly, or until sugar dissolves; pour evenly into 2 lightly greased 9-inch round cakepans.
Sprinkle 3/4 cup pecans evenly over brown sugar mixture in pans.
Beat granulated sugar and oil at
medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended.
Add pumpkin and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla, beating just until blended.
Combine flour and next 4 ingredients; add to pumpkin mixture, beating just until blended. Spoon over pecans in pans.
Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 5 minutes. Carefully loosen cake from edges of pan (do not tear pecans from cake).
Remove cake from pans, and cool completely on wire racks.
Beat 1 3/4 cups whipping cream at medium speed until frothy.
Add powdered sugar and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla; beat at medium-high speed until soft peaks form.
Place 1 cake layer, praline side up, on a cake plate.
Spread half of whipped cream over cake layer; top with remaining cake layer, praline side up.
Spread remaining whipped cream over cake layer.
Sprinkle with 1/4 cup toasted pecans. Cover and chill. Store in refrigerator.