Thanksgiving day 2022 is around the corner and we are just two months away from to end of 2022. We can’t keep calm to celebrate thanksgiving day with great joy with our friends and family. How can a celebration happen without freshly home-baked cakes? Right? I Am here with the most amazing and flavorsome cake recipes. You can easily bake at home! And the good news is you don’t need many ingredients to bake these cakes.
Umm.. sounds great right! let’s begin with Best Thanksgiving cake recipes 2022.
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Best Thanksgiving Cake Recipes 2022
- Whole wheat Carrot cake recipe
- Vanilla pine apple crush cake
- Apple upside-down cake
- Eggless Chocolate bundt cake
Whole wheat Carrot Cake Recipe
The first and the healthiest cake recipe on my list has to be whole wheat carrot cake. Yes! You will be amazed by the result of whole wheat carrot cake. Carrot is one of the ingredients which is highly used in thanksgiving recipes, Then why not a carrot cake? Healthy cakes are not that boring. If you want to have one healthy cake on your thanksgiving cake recipes list then,
Just follow the recipe below.
Ingredients to make whole wheat carrot cake
| Dry Ingredients | Wet Ingredients |
| Wheat flour – 1 cup Salt- ½ tsp Cinnamon powder – ½ tsp Baking soda – ½ tsp Baking powder – 1 tsp Sugar – 2/4 cup | Egg – 2 Vanilla extract – 1 tsp Vegetable oil – ½ cup Carrot – 1 cup(grated) |
Method of making Whole wheat carrot cake
- Start with sifting dry ingredients – wheat flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon powder into a bowl.
- Now start mixing wet ingredients with help of an electric whisk or hand whisk in another bowl.
- When wet ingredients are mixed and sugar got dissolved in a mixture.
- Start adding dry ingredients gradually to the wet ingredients and mix all the ingredients properly.
- When you have mixed all the dry ingredients you will observe that the batter must be too thick. (DON’T WORRY, IT’S FINE)
- Add the grated carrots and mix the batter continuously by the cut-and-fold method.
- Now you will observe the batter is not too thick now, because carrots have released their moisture.
- At this point, you can add dry fruits of your choice it’s all up to you!
- Bake the cake in a preheated oven at 180 C for 45 minutes.
- After 45 Mins take out the cake from the oven and check it by inserting a toothpick. If it came out clean, your cake is ready.
- Keep the cake on a wire rack and let it come to room temperature.
- Serve it warm with tea or coffee!
Vanilla pineapple crush cake
So, for the next cake, I have selected for thanksgiving cake recipes is vanilla pineapple crush cake. You don’t need much effort to bake this amazing flavored cake. You just need a pineapple-flavored crush/syrup.
Let’s jump into the recipe.
Ingredients you need to make vanilla pineapple crush cake
| Dry Ingredients | Wet Ingredients |
| Refined flour – 2 cups Baking powder – 2 tsp Baking soda – 1/4 teaspoon Sugar – 1/2 cup Milk Powder – 4 tablespoon cocoa powder – 1 teaspoon | oil – 1/2 cup Vanilla extract- 1 tsp warm Milk – 1 cup Vinegar- 1 tablespoon |
Method of making vanilla pineapple crush cake
- Start by making buttermilk. Take warm milk, and add vinegar, sugar, and oil. Mix it until the sugar dissolve and keep it aside for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, sift all the ingredients in a mixing bowl.
- After 15 minutes, start adding ingredients gradually to the buttermilk.
- Mixing everything properly.
- Now it’s time to bake the cake.
- Bake it in a preheated oven, at 180 C for 45 minutes.
- After 40 minutes, keep checking. ( Every oven takes a different time to bake a cake, mine took 45 minutes)
- let it cool down or come to room temperature, and de-mold the cake from the baking pan.
- cut the cake from the middle into two layers.
- spread the pineapple crush or caramelized pineapple chunks in between and place another layer of cake on it.
- Repeat the process if you cut three layers.
- you can Also frost the cake with fresh whipped Cream.
- Slice and serve vanilla pineapple cake.
Apple Upside Down cake
So, the third cake from the Thanksgiving cake recipes is an Apple Upside Down cake! It’s such an easy option for the Thanksgiving celebration.
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
servings: serves 8–10
Ingredients to make Apple Upside Down Cake
| Dry Ingredients | Wet Ingredients |
| Flour – 1 ½ cup Sugar – 1/3 cup Baking powder – 1 tbsp | Egg – 2 Oil – 1/3 cup Milk – 1/3 cup Vanilla essence – 1 tbsp |
Dulce de leche Recipe
- add ¼ cup granulated sugar.
- Stir over low heat until completely melted.
- Add 3 tablespoons of butter. Stir it until it melts.
- Add 1/3 cup Hot whole milk.
- Add milk in batches, and stir after each addition to avoid lumps.
- Add 14 oz condensed milk. ( you cannot substitute or skip this ingredient.)
- Stir continuously until it boils. Keep stirring for 3-4 minutes or until thickened.
Process of making Apple Upside Down cake
- In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients – flour, sugar, milk, eggs, oil, baking powder, and vanilla essence. Always Sift flour before mixing.
- Mix until smooth and set aside.
- In a small pot over medium flame, melt 3 tbsp butter, add dulce de leche, stir the mixture and let it come to a boil.
- Immediately pour the sauce into a baking pan.
- Layer Apples in a circular pattern with each apple slice overlapping the other.
- Repeat and cover the entire bottom of the baking pan.
- Pour the cake batter on top of the apples and spread the batter evenly on top.
- Now, bake for 25 minutes, and let it cool down until the bottom is slightly warm.
- Now it’s time to turn over the cake upside down – Place a large round plate on the top of the cake pan, then flip quickly. Pat it and make sure the cake is released, then lift off the pan.
- Slice, and serve it with ice cream.
Eggless Chocolate Bundt Cake
The most aesthetic cake you can present at your thanksgiving celebration table. I am sure you gonna love this decadent bundt cake. This can be one of the best thanksgiving cake recipes this year.
Ingredients
| Dry Ingredients | Wet Ingredients |
| Flour- 2 cups Cocoa powder – ½ cup Baking soda – 2 tsp Baking powder – 1 tsp Salt – 1 tsp Granulated sugar – 1 1/3 cups Instant coffee – 1 tsp | Oil – ½ cup Sour cream/yogurt – ½ cup Milk – 1 cup Vanilla extract – 1 tsp Hot water – 1 cup |
Ingredients for chocolate sauce
- whipping cream – ½ cup
- sugar – 2 tbsp
- chocolate – 1 cup
- butter – 1 tsp
- Melt chocolate, and cream using the double boiler method.
- Add Sugar and butter and mix well.
Method Of Making An Eggless Chocolate Bundt Cake
- In 1 cup milk, add 1 tablespoon white vinegar, mix well and keep it aside for 5 minutes.
- Sift all-purpose, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, and baking powder, and whisk well.
- In another cup of hot water, add 1 tsp instant coffee.
- In another bowl, Add ½ cup oil, sugar, and yogurt and whisk well.
- Add 1 tsp vanilla extract.
- Now Gradually add the dry mixture and buttermilk to the mixture of oil, sugar, and yogurt.
- When your mixture is smooth now add hot coffee water to the cake batter and mix well.
- Now, your batter becomes very thin. Pour it into the greased bundt pan.
- Bake it at 350 F or 175 C for about 30-35 minutes, or until the skewer comes out clean.
- When it’s baked. Let it come down to room temperature. Turn the cake on a plate and pour hot chocolate ganache on top of the cake.
- You can sprinkle choco chips or other colorful sprinkles on top of this.
- Slice, and serve warm.
The Bottom Line
These 4 thanksgiving cake recipes are easy and quick to make at your home. I am sure, these cakes will beautify your Thanksgiving celebration.
