Pumpkin Cake
Submitted by cowgirl on August 12, 2002 at 9:29 am

DESCRIPTION
Pumpkin Cake

SUMMARY
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INSTRUCTIONS
Pumpkin Cake from Maida Heatter’s Book of Great Desserts

360 gr (3 cups) sifted AP flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tbsp. cinnamon ( I used 2 tsp.)
½ tsp. powdered ginger
¼ tsp. ground cloves
¼ tsp. nutmeg
¼ tsp. Allspice ( I can’t stand that, left it out)
1 tsp. salt
150 gr ( 5 oz. , 1 cup) raisins, dark, light, or mixed (I left them out)
100 gr ( 3-1/2 oz. , 1 cup) walnuts, broken into medium size pieces
2 cups pumpkin puree ( 1 one pound can)
2 cups sugar
1-1/4 cups flavorless oil
4 lg. Eggs

Adjust rack one-third up from the bottom of oven and preheat oven to 175° (350° F).
Butter a 10 x 4 inch tube pan and dust with fine, dry breadcrumbs ( even though this is not in the directions for this cake I did it, it’s a Maida-Heatter-thingy and it’s awesome for tube or bundt cakes, you get a pretty-as-picture crust).
Sift together , baking soda, baking powder, spices and salt. Add a tablespoon of the sifted dry ingredients to the raisins in a small bowl. With your finger, toss the raisins to separate them and coat each one with the dry ingredients. Stir in the nuts and set aside.
In a large mixer bowl place pumpkin, sugar and oil. Beat until smooth. Add the eggs individually (medium speed) and beat until well incorporated after each one.
On low speed add the dry ingredients, scraping bowl with a rubber spatula and beating only until smooth. Remove from mixer, stir in nuts and raisins.
Pour into pan, rotate briskly to level top
Bake for 1 hour and 5 minutes, until cake tester comes out dry. Cool on a rack for 10 minutes. The baked cake will fill only about ¾ of the pan.
Cover cake with rack and invert. Remove pan, re-invert, cool right side up.

Serve as is or with a sprinkle of powdered sugar and Ginger whipped cream.

Notes (mine): I always leave out some of the spices bcs otherwise I can’t taste the pumpkin and then it would be only spice cake.

Cake freezes very well.

Do you want to know? I’ll type it anyways : the whole cake has around 7000 cal’s.