Recipe: Moist pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting

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Moist dough, creamy frosting: this pumpkin cake is a delight

Theis here and what better way than to capture the flavors of the season in a delicious pumpkin pie? It is incredibly juicy, spicy and is rounded off with a creamy cream cheese frosting - perfect for cozy coffee meetings or as a sweet end to an autumnal menu. The recipe is easy to make, requires no fancy ingredients and providesgreat taste experiences with a seasonal twist!Nobody can resist - neither big nor small...

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Pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting: the recipe

Ingredients

  • 400 g pumpkin puree ()
  • 4 Owner
  • 100g brown sugar
  • 50g white sugar
  • 120g vegetable oil
  • 2 TL Vanilleextrakt
  • 200 g Flour
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 TL
  • 1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
  • 1/4 tsp Cardamom (ground)
  • 1 packet of baking powder
  • 1/2 TL Natron
  • 250 g soft butter
  • 4 tablespoons maple syrup
  • 1 tbsp Vanilla extract
  • 50g powdered sugar
  • 300 g cream cheese

preparation

  1. Oven on180 °C top/bottom heatpreheat. Line a rectangular baking pan with baking paper.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, mix the pumpkin puree with the eggs, white and brown sugar, vanilla extract and vegetable oil until smooth.
  3. In a second bowl thisMix with the spices (cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, cardamom) as well as baking powder and baking soda. Then quickly stir the flour mixture into the pumpkin mixture until all the ingredients are just combined.
  4. Now pour the dough into the prepared baking pan and place in the preheated oven for approxBake for 30 to 35 minutes.To make sure the cake is ready, do a stick test: If no more dough sticks to the stick, the cake is perfect.
  5. While the cake is cooling, it's time to make the cream cheese frosting: Cream the butter until it takes on an almost white color. Add maple syrup, vanilla extract and powdered sugar and mix well. Finally, stir in the cream cheese until you get a smooth cream.
  6. Spread the frosting evenly over the completely cooled cake.

Optionally, the finished cake can be sprinkled with a pinchCinnamonand/orpumpkin seedsbe decorated. Crunchy walnuts also make a good topping.