Pumpkin Cookie streusel cake
One Sarcastic Baker recipe - American
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 PKG Bahlsen chocolate leibniz cookies ((125 g / 4.5 oz))
- 3/4 Cup AP Flour ((90 g / 3 oz))
- 2 TBS Cocoa powder
- 1 Cup Finely chopped toasted pecans
- 1/3 Cup Light Brown Sugar ((70 g / 2.5 oz))
- 1/3 Cup Sugar ((70 g / 2.5 oz))
- 1/2 Cup Unsalted Melted Butter ((113 g / 4 oz))
- 1 3/4 Cups AP Flour ((200 g / 7 oz))
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 2 1/2 tsp Pumpkin Spice
- 1 tsp Potato Starch
- 3/4 Cup Pumpkin Puree ((200 g / 7 oz))
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 6 TBS Unsalted butter, soften ((90 g / 3 oz))
- 1/2 cup - 1 TBS Cup Vegetable oil (( 90 g / 3 oz))
- 1 Cup Sugar ((200 g / 7 oz))
- 3/4 Cup Light brown sugar ((150 g / 5 oz))
- 4 Large Eggs, room temperature.
Instructions
- 1
Roughly break the cookies with your hands and place the broken pieces in a food processor, grind to a fine crumbs.
- 2
Place the cookies crumbs in a medium bowl and add the flour, cocoa powder, sugars and pecans.
- 3
Pour in the melted butter and use your fingers or a fork to incorporate all.
- 4
Preheat oven to 350F and line 2 8"x8" square pans with parchment paper, grease the sides.
- 5
In a medium bowl, sift the flour, baking powder and pumpkin spice, use a fork to stir and set aside.
- 6
Mix together the pumpkin puree and vanilla extract. Set aside.
- 7
In a bowl of a standing mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment mix the sugar and butter until incorporated. Slowly drizzle the oil and mix until light and fluffy.
- 8
Reduce speed to low, add eggs one at a time waiting for each egg to fully incorporate before adding the next. Scrap the sides and bottom of the bowl.
- 9
Add the flour mix in three additions alternating with the pumpkin puree. Once you added the last portion of the flour, stop the mixer and use a rubber spatula to incorporate any flour strikes.
- 10
Pour 1/4 of the batter into prepared pans, smooth it with a spatula and evenly sprinkle 1/4 of the streusels ontop. Repeat this step with the remaining batter and streusels.
- 11
Bake for 35-40 minutes or until toothpick comes out with a few moist crumbs from the center of the cake.
- 12
Allow to cool completely before slicing.