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Spiced Pumpkin Cake

Spiced Pumpkin Cake

A lovely spongy pumpkin cake with orange glaze that tastes great!

Ingredients

Pumpkins
500 g
Butter
200 g
Sugar
200 g
Eggs
3
Wheat flour
200 g
Ground ginger
1½ tsp
Baking powder
2 tsp
Icing sugar
150 g
Freshly Squeezed orange juice
2 tbsp
Strips Of oranges Peel (Unwaxed)

Instructions

Step 1

  • Remove the seeds from the pumpkin. Cut the pumpkin into large wedges and peel them (do not cut too close to the peel).

Step 2

  • Cut the pumpkin meat roughly - there needs to be about 300 g of it.

Step 3

  • Mix the butter and sugar well. Add one egg at a time to the mixture, stirring well between each egg. Stir the pumpkin meat and orange peel into the egg mixture.

Step 4

  • Mix the wheat flour, ginger and baking powder and sieve it into the pumpkin mixture.

Step 5

  • Put the mixture into a greased spring-bottomed cake tin (about 22 cm in diameter) and place on a baking tray in the middle of the oven.

Step 6

  • Glaze - Mix the icing sugar and orange juice into a thick glaze and decorate the finished cake. Baking time - 1 hour at 175 °.
https://www.arlafoods.co.uk/recipes/spiced-pumpkin-cake/