Pumpkin Sultana Cake Food

PUMPKIN CAKE WITH SULTANA & COCONUT

Steps:

• Cream the butter and sugar with an electric beater until light and fluffy.
• Add 1 of the eggs and beat well.
• Then repeat 1 egg at a time beating well after each addition.
• Stir in coconut and mashed pumpkin.
• Fold in the remaining ingredients and mix well.
• Spread mixture into a lined loaf tin (15cm x 25cm).
• Bake for 1 1/4 hours in a moderate oven.

HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line a 30 x 20cm baking or small roasting tin with baking parchment. Put the flour, sugar, spice, bicarbonate of soda, sultanas and salt into a large bowl and stir to combine. Beat the eggs into the melted butter, stir in the orange zest and juice, then mix with the dry ingredients till combined. Stir in the pumpkin. Pour the batter into the tin and bake for 30 mins, or until golden and springy to the touch.
• To make the frosting, beat together the cheese, butter, icing sugar, orange zest and 1 tsp of the juice till smooth and creamy, then set aside in the fridge. When the cake is done, cool for 5 mins then turn it onto a cooling rack. Prick it all over with a skewer and drizzle with the rest of the orange juice while still warm. Leave to cool completely.
• If you like, trim the edges of the cake. Give the frosting a quick beat to loosen, then, using a palette knife, spread over the top of the cake in peaks and swirls. If you're making the cake ahead, keep it in the fridge then take out as many pieces as you want 30 mins or so before serving. Will keep, covered, for up to 3 days in the fridge.

OLD-FASHIONED SULTANA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 150°C and grease a 20cm square or round cake tin.
• Pick over the sultanas to remove any stem- nothing worse than a crunch in your cake.
• Place sultanas in a saucepan and cover them with cold water. Bring to the boil and then drain off the water. Return sultanas to saucepan.
• Stir in the chopped butter and set aside the sultanas to cool.
• Beat together the eggs, essence and sugar. Then add in the sultanas.
• Add your flour and baking powder to another mixing bowl and aerate with a kitchen whisk (or you can sift them together).
• Stir the flour into the sultana mix.
• Pour into prepared cake tin and bake for 1 1/2 hours.

PUMPKIN BANANA CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar in mixing bowl.
• Beat in eggs one at a time until smooth.
• Stir in pumpkin and banana.
• In a second bowl, combine remaining ingredients, reserving 1/2 cup toated pine nuts.
• Stir to mix, add to wet ingredients, mix together only until moistened.
• Sprinkle bottom of a greased 10 inch tube pan with remaining toasted pine nuts.
• Pour batter into tube pan.
• Bake in 350f degree oven for 1 hour or until tester inserted in middle comes out clean.
• Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack and glaze.
• Glaze: Combine brown sugar, butter, spices and cream in a small saucepan.
• Bring to boil and simmer for 3 minutes.
• Spoon over warm cake, sprinkle with crushed pine nuts.

PUMPKIN SULTANA CAKE

Steps:

• 1) Heat oven to 160C / 325F 2) Cream butter and sugar 3) Add eggs, mashed pumpkin, sifted flours, lemon rind and sultanas 4) Bake 75-90 mins Note: the mixture is inclined to curdle a bit when adding the pumpkin, so have the flours sifted and ready to add a bit at a time- this helps