Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, pumpkin cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pumpkin Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Pumpkin Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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

The ingredients needed to make Pumpkin Cake:

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

Instructions 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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