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Pumpkin Cake

Ingredients

Pumpkin Cake

  • 225 g pumpkin purée
  • 100 g egg
  • 50 g yogurt
  • 175 g sugar
  • 25 g brown sugar
  • 1 tsp ish vanilla extract
  • 180 g AP flour
  • 175 unsalted butter
  • 2 g baking soda
  • 4 g baking powder
  • 4 g salt
  • 4 g ground cinnamon
  • 2 g ground clove
  • 2 g nutmeg
  • 4 g ginger

Brown Sugar Glaze

  • 100 g water
  • 75 g brown sugar
  • 210 g powdered sugar approximate

Decoration

  • Toasted pumpkin seeds

Instructions

Pumpkin Cake:

  • Oil your cake pan (23 cm springform pan or similar). Cut a parchment paper circle to line the bottom of the pan. Reattach the sides, then generously oil the parchment and sides. Sprinkle with a bit of flour and tap to coat the pan evenly. Set aside.
  • In a small saucepan, melt 175g of butter over medium-high heat, whisking continuously until it turns a medium brown color. Set aside to cool.
  • In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg. Whisk to mix. Set aside.
  • In a larger bowl, combine pumpkin purée, yogurt, sugar, and brown sugar. Stir well. Pour in the browned butter, ensuring you scrape all the brown bits from the pan, and whisk to incorporate. Crack two eggs into the mixture and whisk again.
  • Add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture and stir thoroughly, making sure to eliminate any lumps or streaks of flour.
  • Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan, smoothing the top. Bake in a 160°C oven for approximately 30 minutes.

Brown Sugar Glaze:

  • While the cake is cooling make the glaze.
  • Boil water and brown sugar together.
  • Once cool, whisk in the powdered sugar.

Assembly

  • Pour the glaze over the cooled cake.
  • Decorate with pumpkin seeds.
  • Enjoy your pumpkin cake!

Notes

I used non-fat, unsweetened greek yogurt. You can use any type of yogurt you have on had as long as its unsweetened. Buttermilk or sour cream would probably also work as well.
If youd like to use ready made pumpkin spice then replace all the spices above with 12g of pumpkin spice blend.