This Brown Butter Pumpkin Cake with Salted Caramel and Toffee starts with a moist, spiced, full-bodied brown butter pumpkin cake, and it’s filled with crunchy, buttery toffee, and slathered with a luxuriously smooth and fluffy salted caramel frosting. This cake is packed with all of the warm, delicious flavors of fall.
Fall is one of my favorite season. Yes, the lazy, warm days of summer are no longer, but I can’t help but love the leaves changing color. The cooler weather also means that sweaters come out of hibernation. And all of a sudden my knitting needles and balls of yarn are strewn about the house. Plus, cozying up to the fire is a pass time that we love in our family. And then there’s the food.
To put it simply, fall food rocks. It’s the perfect weather for a roasted chicken cooking in a warm oven, or a huge pot of soup simmering on the stove. And the desserts…well, you know how I feel about desserts 🙂
While I love flaky, buttery pie crusts filled with warm apples, crunchy pecans, and silky pumpkin, this year, I’ve got my mind on cakes, fall inspired cakes in particular. This Brown Butter Pumpkin Cake with Salted Caramel and Toffee is fall in the form of a cake. The brown butter in the pumpkin cake brings out a nuttiness that works to perfectly with the pumpkin.
To give the cake some crunch, I whipped up a batch of homemade toffee. It’s full of rich, buttery caramel flavor, and it adds yet another dimension of warm, nuttiness to the cake. And let’s not forget the luscious salted caramel frosting. It’s not too sweet, and it pulls the cake together into one, cohesive fall treat!
To get the full recipe and instructions for this Brown Butter Pumpkin Cake with Salted Caramel and Toffee head over to my friend Jenny’s blog, The Melrose Family. You can find the recipe here. Happy baking!
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This rocks! Everything I could want all in one.
Thanks so much, Candy! It was delicious 🙂
Yum, you got my mouth watering now. This looks great. Love the caramel. Need to save this 🙂
Thanks so much, Alli! I’m a huge salted caramel fan, too. It’s so darn good.
This looks so decadent!
Thanks so much Hil!
Mercy this looks luxurious! Why would anyone ever make a boxed cake if this is an option?!
Thanks so much Sarah! I agree – luxurious is the right word. It was worth every last finger-linking calorie 🙂
Aaand now I want cake for breakfast.
This is incredible! Beautiful and delicious!
Esther, you’re so funny! I totally hear you on the cravings. I can’t read too many cooking related posts at night because then all of a sudden I’m craving every sweet and salty delight that I come across! Thanks for the sweet comment 🙂
Oh wow. You had me at salted caramel. This is one gorgeous looking cake!
Thanks so much, Julie! I love salted caramel. i could drink it by the gallon 🙂
Yummy, that looks so good!
Thanks so much Angie 🙂
What an awesome cake. This is what is called a show stopper! Perfect for the holiday table.
Thanks so much Christine! I love cakes that look pretty and taste delicious 🙂
This is so pretty I wouldn’t even want to eat it!!! Though it does sound great
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Thanks so much Hayli! It was almost to pretty to eat, but my friends and family dove in, and they loved it 😉
OMG this looks incredibly delish!! I can’t wait to try out the recipe for the holidays!
Thanks so much Faye! I hope you do give it a try. It’s delicious 🙂
Wow!!! Absolutely beautiful!!
Thanks so much, Allison! It was so fun to make, and even more fun to eat 🙂
These look absolutely delicious, Aida.
Aida, that is one gorgeous cake! Mercy! It sounds absolutely sinful too. I’m so with you on the fall foods like soups and roasted chicken. As for the fire, I’m jealous! That never happens in Florida. The toffee on that cake has my mouth watering. 😮
Mmmm…this is so divine!!! Pumpkin+Salted Caramel=Pure Bliss!! Pinned!!
Oh, I just had to come see more after spotting this on Google+, Aida. Such a beautiful creation and I adore the flavors you have combined! You are so talented, my friend!