Hallowe'en Pumpkin Cake, from Pam Corbin, River Cottage Handbook: Cakes
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Hallowe'en Pumpkin Cake, from Pam Corbin, River Cottage Handbook: Cakes
Serves 12
Ingredients
150g unsalted butter, cut into small pieces and softened
300g caster sugar
3 eggs
340g self-raising flour
225g finely grated raw pumpkin flesh
150g amaretti or dry macaroons, lightly crushed
50ml whole or semi-skimmed milk
To finish (optional):
Orange Glacé icing
Halloween sweets
23cm garland or ring mould, well greased, or a 20cm round tin lightly greased and base-lined with baking parchment
Method
Preheat the oven to 180°C/Gas Mark 4.
In a mixing bowl, beat the butter to a cream, using a wooden spoon or a hand-held electric whisk.
Add the sugar and continue to beat until well creamed. (It won't be as light and fluffy as a classic sponge mix.)
Add the eggs, one at a time, adding 1 tbsp of the flour with each, and beating well before adding the next. Sift in half the remaining flour, then use a large metal spoon to carefully fold it in.
Repeat with the other half. Fold in the grated pumpkin, crushed amaretti or macaroons, and the milk - to give a soft dropping consistency.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and bake in the oven for 45 minutes, until the cake is lightly golden, springs back to shape when pressed with a finger and is beginning to pull away from the sides of the tin.
Leave in the tin for 5 minutes before carefully turning out and placing on a wire rack to cool.
For children, trickle the cake with orange glacé icing and scatter with sweets.
For adults, serve it plain with hot mulled cider punch. It will keep in a tin for 5 days.
Variation: Add 50g mini marshmallows along with the amaretti for a gooey Hallowe'en cake.
Ingredients
150g unsalted butter, cut into small pieces and softened
300g caster sugar
3 eggs
340g self-raising flour
225g finely grated raw pumpkin flesh
150g amaretti or dry macaroons, lightly crushed
50ml whole or semi-skimmed milk
To finish (optional):
Orange Glacé icing
Halloween sweets
23cm garland or ring mould, well greased, or a 20cm round tin lightly greased and base-lined with baking parchment
Method
Preheat the oven to 180°C/Gas Mark 4.
In a mixing bowl, beat the butter to a cream, using a wooden spoon or a hand-held electric whisk.
Add the sugar and continue to beat until well creamed. (It won't be as light and fluffy as a classic sponge mix.)
Add the eggs, one at a time, adding 1 tbsp of the flour with each, and beating well before adding the next. Sift in half the remaining flour, then use a large metal spoon to carefully fold it in.
Repeat with the other half. Fold in the grated pumpkin, crushed amaretti or macaroons, and the milk - to give a soft dropping consistency.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and bake in the oven for 45 minutes, until the cake is lightly golden, springs back to shape when pressed with a finger and is beginning to pull away from the sides of the tin.
Leave in the tin for 5 minutes before carefully turning out and placing on a wire rack to cool.
For children, trickle the cake with orange glacé icing and scatter with sweets.
For adults, serve it plain with hot mulled cider punch. It will keep in a tin for 5 days.
Variation: Add 50g mini marshmallows along with the amaretti for a gooey Hallowe'en cake.
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