Grandma Helen's Pumpkin Cake
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
- 4 large eggs
- 1⁄8 cup sugar
- 2 cups fresh pumpkin puree or 2 cups canned solid-pack pumpkin
- 1 cup vegetable oil or 1 cup canola oil
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice (or 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon each ground allspice and ground ginger)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup chopped walnuts or 1/2 cup pecans
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For Frosting
- 1⁄2 cup butter, at room temperature
- 3 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 3⁄4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 325 degrees if using a Pyrex Glass pan
- Grease a 9 x 13-inch baking pan or two 8- or 9-inch round cake pans.
- In medium bowl with electric mixer, beat eggs until frothy.
- Add sugar, pumpkin, oil, spice and vanilla.
- Beat on low speed until combined, then increase to medium speed.
- Beat 1 minute.
- Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; beat on low speed for 2 minutes.
- Add nuts and stir to combine.
- Pour into baking pan.
- Bake on center rack for about 40 minutes (30 to 35 minutes for layers) until cake is golden brown and top springs back when lightly pressed.
- Let cool in pan on rack for at least 1 hour before frosting.
- (For a layer cake, let cool 15 minutes, remove cake from pans and let cool completely before frosting.) For frosting: Beat butter and cream cheese with electric mixer until fluffy.
- Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla and beat on low speed until fluffy.
- Add more powdered sugar if necessary to make a stiffer frosting.
- Store cake in the refrigerator.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Sharlene~W
Campbell, California
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