PUMPKIN CAKE FOR HALLOWE'EN
(This is rather like a carrot cake)
If you are intending on making Jack O'Lantern Pumpkins for Halloween, you will find yourself left with a huge amount of pumpkin flesh. Why not try making this pumpkin cake? Its easy to make and tastes delicious. Please give us your feedback when you make the cake.
CAKE
INGREDIENTS
300 gm Self Raising Flour
300 gm light muscovado sugar
3 teaspoons mixed spice
2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
175 gm
sultanas
half teaspoon salt
4 eggs
200 gm butter
zest and juice
of one orange
500 gm grated flesh of pumpkin or butternut squash
METHOD
Preheat oven to 180 degrees for fan ovens; Gas Mark 4 or
160 degrees for ordinary ovens
Prepare a 20cm x 30cm cake tin OR 2 x 8
inch sandwich tins by greasing and lining with greaseproof paper
Place
dry ingredients (flour, sugar, spice, bicarbonate, sultanas and salt) in a
mixing bowl.
Melt the butter, beat the eggs and then beat the eggs into
the butter
Stir orange zest and one tablespoon of orange juice into the
butter and egg mixture
Add pumpkin flesh to dry ingredients
Stir
butter mixture into dry ingredients
Pour batter into tin(s)
Bake
for APPROXIMATELY 30 minutes
****** Pumpkins can vary in water content which
can affect the cooking time. So keep an eye on your cake towards the end of the
cooking time and adjust timing as necessary. Test for readiness. If the cake is
ready, a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake will come out clean.
When ready leave the cake in the tin for 5 minutes to cool slightly then
turn out onto a wire tray. Skewer all over and drizzle with the rest of the
orange juice (from the 2 oranges) while still warm. Leave cake to cool.
FROSTING
200 gm soft cheese
85 gm softened butter
100 gm
sifted icing sugar
zest of one orange
1 tablespoon orange juice
Beat all ingredients together and leave in the fridge
LEAVE CAKE
TO COOL COMPLETELY BEFORE APPLYING ICING
Give the frosting a quick beat
before icing the cake
Now apply your edible cake topper according to the
instructions. Don't forget to look at the video to see just how easily they are
applied!
Your cake can be kept in the fridge for about three days
