How to Make Quick Pumpkin Cake

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, pumpkin cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Pumpkin Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Pumpkin Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook pumpkin cake using 23 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pumpkin Cake:

1. Prepare For the cake
2. Prepare 2 cups all purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
3. Get 2 tsp baking powder
4. Make ready 1 tsp baking soda
5. Get 1 tsp salt
6. Get 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
7. Take 1/2 tsp each of ground nutmeg, ground cloves and ginger powder
8. Make ready 1 cup canola / vegetable oil
9. Get 4 large eggs
10. Make ready 1 cup packed brown sugar
11. Make ready 1/2 cup white sugar
12. Get 2 cups pumpkin puree
13. Take 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
14. Get For the icing and topping
15. Get 1 package full fat cream cheese (chilled)
16. Make ready 1/2 cup softened butter
17. Make ready 2 1/2 cups icing sugar
18. Prepare 1 tsp vanilla essence
19. Get 1 Tbsp lemon juice
20. Make ready Pinch salt
21. Make ready Topping
22. Prepare Roughly Crushed Ginger nut biscuits- I used about 6 of them
23. Take 3 Tbsp roughly chopped pecans

Steps to make Pumpkin Cake:

1. Preheat the oven to 177°C and grease a 9×13 inch baking pan.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Spread the frosting on the cooled cake. And top with crushed ginger nut biscuits and finish off with crushed pecan nuts.
6. Refrigerate for 30 minutes before serving

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