Pumpkin Cake
Pumpkin Cake

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pumpkin cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pumpkin Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Pumpkin Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

This is more of a maple-pumpkin bread with a cream cheese center, than it is a true cake; but it's delicious nevertheless. It's not overly sweet and goes great with a cup of coffee. It also seems to taste better the next day, as the spices seem to come out a little more the longer the cake sits.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pumpkin cake using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pumpkin Cake:
  1. Prepare 2 3/4 cups (360 g.) all-purpose flour
  2. Make ready 1 Tablespoon (15 g) baking powder
  3. Take 1 teaspoon (5 g) baking soda
  4. Make ready 2 teaspoons (6 g) cinnamon
  5. Get 1 teaspoons (2 g) nutmeg
  6. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon ginger
  7. Prepare 1.5 cups (300 g) granulated sugar
  8. Prepare 170 g unsalted butter
  9. Make ready 4 large eggs
  10. Prepare 1/2 cup (120 ml) milk
  11. Prepare 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  12. Take 2 medium sized pumpkins roughly 400g (pureed)

Whether made in one bowl and topped with chocolate ganache, or garnished with a cream cheese frosting, you'll want to devour these cakes all season (and beyond)! Valerie makes a pumpkin cake as an alternative to pumpkin pie. Add vanilla and pumpkin puree and beat until incorporated. Add dry ingredients and mix until just combined.

Steps to make Pumpkin Cake:
  1. Split and quarter pumpkins, take out the core/seeds. Lightly oil a baking tray, place cut up pumpkin pieces and bake at 350 until a fork can pierce through and skin comes off easily. Peel off skin and leave to cool.
  2. Grease 3 8 inch baking pans and lightly coat with flour while waiting for pumpkins to cool.
  3. Puree the cooked pumpkins in a food processor.
  4. Put the first seven ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix thoroughly on low speed. Add the butter in pieces and mix until it resembles sand.
  5. In a separate bowl, combine eggs, pumpkin, milk and vanilla.
  6. With the mixer on low speed, add half of the milk mixture. Mix and scrape down then add the remaining milk mixture in 2 additions.
  7. Pour into pans and bake at 350 for 30 - 35mins.
  8. When cool, frost with cream cheese frosting.

Pour batter into prepared baking pan and smooth top. Dust with confectioners sugar before serving. If you aren't wanting the pumpkin pie spice flavor, a yellow cake or even chocolate cake mix would be delicious. Pumpkin Cake is exceptionally easy to make! It's as simple as mixing the wet ingredients (pumpkin, eggs, oil, vanilla, brown and white sugar) in one bowl, mixing the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, salt and lots of pumpkin-y spices) in a separate bowl, and then combining the two!

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