Pumpkin Cake

Mirj's Note:

I got this recipe from the Jewish Recipe Archives website.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 25 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 16

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 ¼ cups vegetable oil
• 1 ½ cups pumpkin puree (canned or fresh)
• 4 eggs
• 3 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ¾ cup seedless raisin
• ¾ cup golden raisin
• 1 cup chopped walnuts or 1 cup chopped pecans

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Place sugar, oil, and pumpkin in large mixing bowl and beat well at medium speed.
3. Add eggs one at a time.
4. Mix well.
5. Sift flour, baking soda and baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
6. Fold into batter.
7. Stir in raisins and nuts.
8. Pour into a 10- inch greased and floured tube pan.
9. (I use a bundt pan successfully.) Bake 1 and 1/4 hours or until done.
10. Test with a toothpick.
11. Do not open over for at least 50 minutes.
12. Cool on rack before inverting.
13. NOTES: I usually use canned pumpkin, (can also use butternut squash) but occasionally I steam a real one in a pressure cooker, whirl pulp in a food processor and then measure.
14. Anything else you like can be added to batter.
15. I sometimes add dried cranberries or cherries, bits of crystalized ginger etc.
16. This is a moist cake that keeps well.
17. Can be frozen.

Reviews

[Mary K. W.]

A truly yummy cake. I also used a bundt pan and it turned out great. The cooking time was less than indicated here, but I think that's because the bundt pan is the heavy Analon and it seems to cook quicker than other bundt pans I've used. The texture is a heavy, dense cake with lots of moisture and flavor. I did leave out the raisins and nuts since no one in my family cares for those in our food. That's the only change I made and it turned out great. Definitely a keeper.

[young n' fun]

The flavor if this cake was very good and pumpkiny. Not as moist as I would have hoped and expected, but the flavor made up to it. Instead of raisins, I added craisins (sweetened dried cranberries). It was very yummy. Thanks!

[sbera007]

In order to make it a little healthier, I substituted apple sauce for most of the vegetable oil (still included 1 tbs of oil). I used sweetened apple sauce , so I cut down the sugar to 1.5 cups. I also used half whole wheat flour and half all purpose flour. It turned out beautifully. We couldn't even wait for it to cool before we sampled it.