RECIPE: Clifton's Pumpkin Cake--Janie/1000 Oaks

Recipe from the Los Angeles Times (Fall 1984)

3 cups sugar
3 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 tablespoon cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups oil
3 1/4 cups canned pumpkin
4 eggs, slightly beaten
Cream Cheese Frosting (see recipe following)

Beat together sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt in mixer at medium speed until well mixed. Add oil and continue to beat until dry ingredients are moistened. Add pumpkin and mix again until well blended. Add slightly beaten eggs and blend 1 minute longer. Do not overmix.

Turn batter into 3 lightly greased, paper-lined 9-inch cake pans. Smooth batter out in pans with spatula so cake will be level when baked.

Bake at 325 degrees F 40 minutes or until done. Cool on racks, then turn out and fill and frost with Cream Cheese Frosting.

Makes 1 (3-layer) cake.

Cream Cheese Frosting

1 pound powdered sugar
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup chopped raisins

Combine sugar, cream cheese, vanilla, and butter. Mix until blended. Add raisins and mix until blended. Refrigerate until needed. Make sure cake is cool before frosting it.





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