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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

HCB: Pumpkin Cake (sans Buttercream)

I was so looking forward to this cake. I have never made any baked goods with Pumpkin before so I am finding myself being very curious as to how this would taste. Hector over at Rose's forum said it is "utterly delicious" and Rose herself said that this is the best non-chocolate cake ever so as you can imagine, it sounds very promising. I decided not to get the pumpkin pan but I have bought the Fleur De Lis Bundt Pan from Nordic Ware and I was planning on "christening" it for this occassion. So I was doubly excited. I was planning on making 1/2 recipe of the buttercream and sort of pipe it decoratively on the cake. Not sure if it makes sense but it sort of does in my head and I was curious to see if my plan will turn out.

Well, apparently fate has a different plan because I got terribly sick over the weekend so no cooking or baking - in fact no anything short of sleeping and eating. Late yesterday I felt slightly better so I made the pumpkin cake. No buttercream though. It was all I could manage to do before collapsing. As those who have made this cake will tell you, the cake itself is very easy to do. Pretty uneventful really. It tells you to toast the walnuts and then mix it with the flour, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt mixture. Apparently you don't have to process the walnuts into powder, just coarsely chop it (I break them into pieces with my hands). Then mix the eggs, brown sugar, canola oil, and walnut oil. I substituted walnut oil with the same amount of canola oil - not sure how often I will use walnut oil so I decided not to purchase it. Then it tells you to add vanilla and then the pumpkin puree. Then add the flour mixture and mix until it all blended, pour into the pan and bake for 35-40 minutes (if using bundt pan). I ended up baking mine for 45 minutes. I am eating the pumpkin cake as I am writing this. It is so good! So tender and moist (I noticed this seems to be a trend for Rose's cakes). Even though I made this with AP flour again it is very tender and moist. It makes me think of fall, this taste medley of pumpkin, cinnamon, and nutmeg. YUM!

9 comments:

  1. oh, i love your pan... i've had my eye on that one actually! cake looks delicious btw... well done on getting it done while sick!

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  2. Your cake looks great Jenn. I hope you feel better soon. My daughter was sick too when I made this cake. Great minds think alike - I used a similar title for my posting :)

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  3. It came out beautifully, and I think a lot of us felt that the cake really was great without a frosting.

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  4. I love your new pan!! I keep looking at that pan in one of the stores and wonder if i should buy it or not. But the one i've seen is silicone version. I hope you are feeing better!

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  5. I love your new pan Jenn... so sorry you got sick. I'm glad to hear you're starting to feel better now. Gosh I love that pan!!!

    :)
    ButterYum

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  6. @ Rebecca, Faithy, ButterYum - thank you. It is a very nice pan. Looks so royally :).
    @ Nancy - I can't imagine how this cake would taste with frosting. It's already so good without.
    @ Rozanne - sorry to hear about your daughter. I hope she feels better!

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  7. What a lovely cake! I did make frosting for mine but I think it would have been just as good without. Maybe better -- I'm not really a huge fan of buttercream, even Rose's buttercreams.

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  8. What a good idea using this beautiful pan. It turned out lovely. I want to bake it again and use just the Creme Anglais, still warm, drizzled over a slice.

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  9. I have this exact same same pan and am making the pumpkin cake in it! My husband got it and several other Nordicware pans for me on DEEP discount at store liquidation sale. Now I just need a bundt cake keeper.

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