Pumpkin Cake Gardening Australia Food

PUMPKIN CHIFFON CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F Sift cake flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, cloves and nutmeg into a large bowl.
• Make a well in the center of the flour mixture. Add, in order, the oil, egg yolks, water and pumpkin, mixing after each addition; beat until very smooth.
• Combine egg whites and cream of tartar in a separate bowl; beat with a mixer on medium-high speed until stiff peaks form.
• Pour egg-white batter over the yolk batter and gently fold to blend.
• Pour mixture into a non-greased 10-inch tube pan.
• Bake 45-55 minutes or until a wooden pick comes out clean. Invert on a rack to cool completely; removed from pan when cool.

PUMPKIN BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease and flour a 10-inch bundt pan or tube pan.
• In a large mixing bowl, mix the eggs with a large fork until well blended.
• Mix in the sugar.
• Add the oil in a steady stream, mixing all the while, until the mixture is thick and smooth.
• Mix in the pumpkin, vanilla, cinnamon, clove and salt. Add the baking soda and baking powder in pinches, breaking up any lumps with your fingers.
• Stir in thoroughly.
• Stir in the whole wheat and all-purpose flours just until blended.
• Stir in the walnuts.
• Pour and scrape the batter into the pan and bake for 45 to 50 minutes, or until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes.
• Invert, remove the pan, and cool on the rack for about 15 minutes more. (Makes 10-12 servings)

PUMPKIN CAKE

Steps:

• in large bowl of electric mixer, let eggs warm to room temoerature-about 30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Sift flour with baking soda, salt, cloves, cinnamon,ginger and nutmeg At high sped, beat eggs with sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in oil and pumpkin to blend well.
• At low speed beat in flour mixture just until combined.
• Pour into an ungreased 9-inch tube pan.
• Bake about 1 hour or until surface springs back when gently pressed with fingertip.
• Cool cake completely in pan.
• With spatula, carefully loosen cake from pan; remove.
• Place on cake plate; frost with Cream Cheese Frosting.
• Decorate with nuts.
• Makes 12 servings.
• ----Creamcheese Frosting------.
• In medium bowl with electric mixer at medium speed, beat cheese with rum until creamy.
• Gradually beat in sugar, beating until light and fluffy.
• Spread over Pumpkin Cake, make swirls with knife.

ZUCCHINI PUMPKIN CAKE

Steps:

• Grease and flour 2 9 inch cake pans or 10x13 pan and set aside.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Beat eggs to blend, add oil, sugar and vanilla.
• Continue beating until thick and foamy.
• Stir in zucchini and pumpkin.
• Mix remaining ingredients in a separate bowl.
• Stir dry mixture gently into zucchini mixture just until blended.
• Bake for 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Top with cream cheese frosting.
• CREAM CHEESE FROSTING:.
• Put Frosting ingredients in food processor and mix till creamy add sour cream to make it creamier if necessary.
• Press pine nuts into sides of cake.
• Eat Away!