Recipe: Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

[kambrieloktober]

Yesterday I woke up with the undeniable desire for something sweet and pumpkiny for breakfast. Before I was fully conscious, I knew exactly what I wanted to pair with my Saturday morning coffee.

Saturday mornings are this easy.

Comments

[wyngdlyon]

Second, you have to find the right kind of pumpkins (culinary pumpkins) to puree.

Actually I have to disagree with this. I use the same type of pumpkins that we get for carving and make my puree from. The trick is to get them in a smaller size. Once they get too big they get stringy.

I make my own puree every year and use my food saver to store it in 2 cup increments in the freezer so I have pumpkin year round. It is a bit of work and if you don't have the time, canned pumpkin is just a good. Thankfully they don't add an ass load of preservatives and other crap to it.

The cake looks tasty, makes me want to go pull out some pumpkin out of the freezer and make some pumpkin bread.

[kambrieloktober]

Agree, the larger the pumpkin, the more stringy, watery and tasteless it gets. But generally, I find that the other varieties of pumpkin taste better. My mom's pumpkin bread was always good (we usually got medium sized ones to carve), but I found that it tasted even better after using a different kind of pumpkin.

The carving pumpkins aren't grown for flavor but the other ones are (the popular variety is called "sugar pie"), and they have better color, texture and a higher level of sugar.

Or maybe you're actually buying the sugar pie pumpkins to carve? I know that some people carve those too.

[wyngdlyon]

~shrugs~ I'm usually buying whatever the store has or what we get from Bates.

Maybe I'm just getting them small enough where they're still really flavorful. That and I steam mine when I cook them instead of baking them, which gives them more moisture too.

I've also done the same with a white pumpkin too. Not really much difference across the board.

either way...pumpkin is still tasty =)

[serialkiller]

thank you for not pissing on the food porn by adding raisins.

[kambrieloktober]

Haha :)

[wyngdlyon]

Agreed!

[petitemorte]

Yum!