Halloween pumpkin cake
Like carrot cake? Then try using up your leftover pumpkin in this clever traybake for Halloween
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Difficulty and servings
Cuts into 15 generous portions
Preparation and cooking times
Prep 20 mins
Cook 30 mins
(without frosting)
- Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line a 30 x 20cm baking or small roasting tin with baking parchment. Put the flour, sugar, spice, bicarbonate of soda, sultanas and salt into a large bowl and stir to combine. Beat the eggs into the melted butter, stir in the orange zest and juice, then mix with the dry ingredients till combined. Stir in the pumpkin. Pour the batter into the tin and bake for 30 mins, or until golden and springy to the touch.
- To make the frosting, beat together the cheese, butter, icing sugar, orange zest and 1 tsp of the juice till smooth and creamy, then set aside in the fridge. When the cake is done, cool for 5 mins then turn it onto a cooling rack. Prick it all over with a skewer and drizzle with the rest of the orange juice while still warm. Leave to cool completely.
- If you like, trim the edges of the cake. Give the frosting a quick beat to loosen, then, using a palette knife, spread over the top of the cake in peaks and swirls. If you're making the cake ahead, keep it in the fridge then take out as many pieces as you want 30 mins or so before serving. Will keep, covered, for up to 3 days in the fridge.
Try this
Pumpkins can vary dramatically in water content, so keep an eye on the cake towards the end of cooking - yours may take less or more time to cook through. If you're not carving out a pumpkin this year butternut squash works brilliantly, too.
Per serving (15 slices)
408 kcalories, protein 5g, carbohydrate 52g, fat 21 g, saturated fat 13g, fibre 1g, sugar 37g, salt 1.33 g
Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2007.
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Ingredients
For the cake
- 300g self-raising flour
- 300g light muscovado sugar
- 3 tsp mixed spice
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 175g sultanas
- ½ tsp salt
- 4 eggs , beaten
- 200g butter , melted
- zest 1 orange
- 1 tbsp orange juice
- 500g (peeled weight) pumpkins or butternut squash flesh, grated
FOR DRENCHING AND FROSTING
- 200g pack soft cheese
- 85g butter , softened
- 100g icing sugar , sifted
- zest 1 orange and juice of half
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The sweetness of the pumpkin and onion along with the buttery flaky pastry make these pasties good enough to eat on their own anytime
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Difficulty and servings
Cuts into 15 generous portions
Preparation and cooking times
Prep 20 mins
Cook 30 mins
(without frosting)
Ingredients
For the cake
- 300g self-raising flour
- 300g light muscovado sugar
- 3 tsp mixed spice
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 175g sultanas
- ½ tsp salt
- 4 eggs , beaten
- 200g butter , melted
- zest 1 orange
- 1 tbsp orange juice
- 500g (peeled weight) pumpkins or butternut squash flesh, grated
FOR DRENCHING AND FROSTING
- 200g pack soft cheese
- 85g butter , softened
- 100g icing sugar , sifted
- zest 1 orange and juice of half
Per serving (15 slices)
408 kcalories, protein 5g, carbohydrate 52g, fat 21 g, saturated fat 13g, fibre 1g, sugar 37g, salt 1.33 g
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