Today in celebration of a mammogram and ultrasound that had excellent results (woo hoo!!!), here is a recipe for one of my favorite desserts! Pumpkin Cake!
Pumpkin Cake
Cake Ingredients:
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Frosting Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1/4 cup cream cheese
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9 inch square pan. (I don’t have a 9″ square pan so I used a 9″ round.)
1. To prepare cake. In a bowl with mixer at medium speed, beat sugar and eggs for 2 minutes. Beat in pumpkin and oil. At low speed, add flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Beat for 1 minute.
2. Pour batter into your prepared pan. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. (Mine took about 35 minutes. Maybe this is because I used a round pan.) Cool cake in pan on a wire rack.
3. To prepare frosting: Beat confectioner’s sugar and remaining frosting ingredients for 2 minutes or until fluffy. Frost cake when cool
This recipe is so easy and quick and the cake is really moist and delicious. I don’t really like pumpkin pie, but I love this cake! You don’t even need to frost it. My daughter likes it better without the frosting! Oh, and it smells divine while it’s cooking. Yum!
13 responses so far ↓
1 vchelle // Nov 18, 2009 at 8:29 am
Scrumptious!! Great news!!
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2 spread your wings // Nov 18, 2009 at 9:48 am
that’s really great news. i know it must put you at ease now.
the recipe sounds good for a Thanksgiving meal ; )
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3 Shannon // Nov 18, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I am so happy things turned out good! All those prayers did pay off!!! And that cake yummo!!!
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4 Puna // Nov 18, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Thank goodness Gayle.
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5 Kimmie // Nov 18, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I bought 6 cans of pumpkin today because I heard there will be a shortage of pumpkin pie filling ….. too much rain in the midwest! Now I’ll have to get more!!!
6 DesignTies // Nov 18, 2009 at 5:34 pm
You had me at cream cheese frosting. YUM-MY. I’m not really a frosting person, but I could eat a bowl of cream cheese frosting all by itself — forget the cake!!
Good to hear you had excellent test results
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7 margie // Nov 19, 2009 at 7:37 am
i would be eating that for breakfast. i love cake for breakfast!
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8 e l k // Nov 19, 2009 at 8:56 am
i am so pleased with the news Gayle! AND anew recipe too, looks and sounds delish!
9 mrs. e // Nov 19, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Happy for your tests!! No better way to celebrate than with pumpkin! Pumpkin and I are on a first name basis! : )
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10 Se'lah // Nov 19, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Celebrating with you!!!
whoo-hooo
11 Katie in MA // Nov 19, 2009 at 1:45 pm
It looks delicious! I am trying to figure out what I want to bake for Thanksgiving. I better narrow it down, or else I need to start baking this weekend.
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12 stephanie @ chocolateandwhine.com // Nov 24, 2009 at 11:21 am
Oh my. You’re making me hungry. This looks so good. A couple of days ago, while my husband and I were getting ready for work, we were listening to the news and heard that there would be a shortage of pumpkins this year due to flooding (I think) in the midwest. After work that night, I went straight to Target to buy some pumpkin because there was no way I was going without through Thanksgiving. I have pies to bake here! Target was completely out so I went to the next grocery store. They had tons (which made me wonder if the news report might have been a bit premature) but I still grabbed five big cans of pumpkin.
Now I know exactly what I’m going to bake next!
13 sunnymama // Dec 3, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Mmm! Looks delicious! Congratulations on your results.
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