Sweet Pumpkin Cake
- 30 grams Unsalted butter
- 15 grams + 30 grams Sugar
- 1 pinch Salt
- 2 tbsp Heavy cream
- 1 tbsp each Milk, condensed milk
- 2 tsp Rum
- 160 grams Kabocha squash
- 25 grams Almond flour
- 1 medium Egg
- 10 grams Cake flour
- 1 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- 1 dash Cinnamon powder (optional)
- 1 Walnuts, raisins etc. (optional)
- Take the skin, seeds and fibrous part off the kabocha squash, cut up and microwave until tender.
- Pass through a sieve, and measure out 160 g. Mix in 15 g of sugar.
- Put the butter in a bowl and bring to room temperature.
- Bring the egg to room temperature too.
- If needed, line the cake tin you'll be using with parchment paper.
- Start preheating the oven to 180C.
- Sift the ingredients together.
- It's just a small amount so a tea strainer is handy for this.
- Cream the butter until smooth with a whisk.
- Add the remaining 30 g of sugar and cream together well.
- When its light and fluffy, add in the salt.
- Add all the ingredients in the order listed, then add the kabocha squash from step 1 (in 2 to 3 batches) and mix in.
- If you want to omit the rum, substitute a little milk.
- Mix in the almond flour.
- Add the egg, and mix well again.
- You don't have to beat the egg in a separate bowl, just break it straight in.
- Next, sift in the ingredients and mix.
- You can just use a whisk for this.
- Pour the batter into the cake tin, level out the surface, and bake in the preheated oven for about 30 minutes.
- This is how it looks when it's done baking.
- The baking time is a guideline, so please adjust it to your oven.
- Leave the cake covered until it settles and becomes easy to cut.
- When it has cooled down, it will shrink a bit as shown.
- Cut into easy to eat pieces and it's done.
- In the main photo above, I topped each piece with a mixture of cream cheese, heavy cream, and a little sugar, plus raisins etc.
- Bonus: This is the same cake baked in a 15 x 15cm square tin.
- Baking time is 20 minutes.
- I added pumpkin seeds on top at step 7.
- You can use honey instead of the condensed milk.
- I didn't use much butter, so I added the condensed milk to make the cake easier to cut into slices.
- Use whichever you like.
- However, if you use honey, the cake will brown a little faster, so be careful not to let it burn.
- This is one I made with honey, by the way.
butter, salt, heavy cream, milk, squash, flour, egg, flour, baking powder, cinnamon powder, walnuts
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/142919-sweet-pumpkin-cake (may not work)