Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, pumpkin cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pumpkin Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Pumpkin Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pumpkin cake using 23 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pumpkin Cake:
- Take For the cake
- Take 2 cups all purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
- Get 2 tsp baking powder
- Get 1 tsp baking soda
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Take 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1/2 tsp each of ground nutmeg, ground cloves and ginger powder
- Get 1 cup canola / vegetable oil
- Get 4 large eggs
- Prepare 1 cup packed brown sugar
- Make ready 1/2 cup white sugar
- Take 2 cups pumpkin puree
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
- Make ready For the icing and topping
- Get 1 package full fat cream cheese (chilled)
- Prepare 1/2 cup softened butter
- Get 2 1/2 cups icing sugar
- Get 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Take 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- Make ready Pinch salt
- Get Topping
- Prepare Roughly Crushed Ginger nut biscuits- I used about 6 of them
- Take 3 Tbsp roughly chopped pecans
Steps to make Pumpkin Cake:
- Preheat the oven to 177°C and grease a 9×13 inch baking pan.
- Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, gloves and ginger together in a large bowl. Set aside. Whisk the oil, eggs, brown sugar, white sugar, pumpkin, and vanilla extract together until combined. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and use a mixer or whisk until completely combined. Batter will be thick.
- Spread batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 30-36 minutes. Baking times vary, so keep an eye on yours. The cake is done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. If you find the top or edges of the cake is/are browning too quickly in the oven, loosely cover it with aluminum foil.
- To make the frosting: In a large bowl, whisk butter until creamy and colour changes to pale yellow, then add in the cream cheese and whisk together until smooth. Add in the lemon juice and vanilla essence and whisk to combine followed by salt and the icing sugar. Whisk on high until well combined and creamy. You could add another 1/2 cup of icing sugar if you would like it to be sweeter.
- Spread the frosting on the cooled cake. And top with crushed ginger nut biscuits and finish off with crushed pecan nuts.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes before serving
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