Karen’s Opinion

Fall is the Season for Baking

The cooler weather makes me want to bake! I also like to eat soup and love that my husband likes to make big pots of the stuff. Here is one of my favorite pumpkin recipes.
Pumpkin Cake
2 cups white sugar
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups canned pumpkin
4 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 12×18 inch pan. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Set aside.
In a large bowl combine sugar and oil. Blend in vanilla and pumpkin, then beat in eggs one at a time. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in nuts. Spread batter into prepared 12×18 inch pan. (make cupcakes by reducing the baking time to 20 minutes)
Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool.

Can use applesauce–3/4 cup and reduce the oil to 1/2 cup

This cake is so moist that it doesn’t need to be frosted! I do like to spread mine with cream cheese frosting. Yummy!

Tags: baking, fall, pumpkin cake
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Happy Birthday Greg

My son turned 24 years old yesterday. Yesterday was also Father’s Day so it was celebration day all the way around. Greg made his own birthday cake and it was delicious. It was a yellow cake with white chocolate mouse filling. I offered to make him a cake but he has been wanting to try out his cake slicer and said he was going to make his own cake. Here he is blowing out his candles. The candles melted so quickly that we had puddles of wax mixed with frosting. I’ll never buy those skinny swirly candles again.