Pumpkin Spice Cake (baked in a rosette pan)

Pumpkin Spice Cake (made ina rosette pan)

8 tablespoons (1stick) chilled, unsalted butter, softened
1 ½ cups firmly packed brown sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
2 cups cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
½ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon mace
½ cup milk
1 cup canned or fresh pumpkin puree
½ chopped pecans or walnuts
Confectioners’ sugar,for dusting.

Preheat oven to 375° F. Butter a rosette pan.*
In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat butteruntil creamy. Gradually add brown sugar and beat on high speed until creamy andno longer granular, 6-7 min. Add eggs a little at a time, and continue beatinguntil light and fluffy, 3-4 min. more. Sift together flour, baking powder,baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, clovesand mace onto a sheet of waxed paper; sift again. Fold one-third of dryingredients into butter mixture, then half the milk and half the pumpkin; siftagain. Fold in remaining one-third of dryingredients and the nuts until thoroughly blended. Pour batter into prepared panand bake until cake springs back when touched and pulls away from sides of pan,35-40 min. Let cake cool 5-10 min., then remove from pan. Transfer cake to awire rack and let cool 1 hr. Dust with confectioners’ sugar beforeserving.
Yield: Serves 12.

The recommended pan is an 11 ten-cup LaForme pan, calleda rosette pan. LaFormesolder version of the rosette pan is 12 but holds just 5 cups. This recipe is designed to go into the larger capacity pan. Use any pan you have that will hold that amount and adjust the bakingtime to whatever degree necessary.
[Adaptedfor use with the deep Swiss-style, rosette pan from The Fanny FarmerBaking Book, by Marion Cunningham (Alfred A. Knopf, 1984)]

For another cake which can be made in this pancheck the recipe for Sour Cream Coffee Cake.

This recipe has been kitchen tested.

You can find the above and related recipes by tapping here on the Home Cookin’ index.

Please tell us what you think! Back Home

Pumpkin Spice Cake (baked in a rosette pan)

Pumpkin Spice Cake (made ina rosette pan)

Categories