Pumpkin Pound Cake - For Blog Hop Wednesdays

This week for blog hop I was supposed to cook from Deepali of Confusion Cook. She has a simple but beautiful space. I decided to bake her banana pound cake with some modifications. I had pumpkin at home. So I decided to replace pumpkin instead of banana.




 
Original recipe is here.

Ingredients:

Sifted Cake flour - 1 3/4 cup [ See Note ]

Butter - 1/2 cup

Eggs - 2

Sugar - 1 cup

Pumpkin puree - 1 1/4 cup

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Baking soda - 3/4 tsp

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Vanilla extract - 1 tsp 

Cinnamon powder/ Pumpkin Spice - 1/4 tsp


Preparation:

1. Sieve the dry ingredients thrice and keep it aside.

2. Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla extract and mix well.

3. Add one egg each at a time and beat well for 1 min.

4. Add 3 tbsp flour at a time and fold in.

5. Add pumpkin puree and stir well.

6. Grease a baking tray and bake at 180 deg C for 40 - 45 min. My oven took 40 min exactly.




7. Cool, Invert and serve.

 






Notes:

1). Cake flour is:

Maida - 1 cup

Corn flour - 2 tbsp

Remove 2 tbsp maida and add cornflour 2 tbsp and sift it. This is cake flour.

2). To make pumpkin puree at home:

Remove seeds and skin of pumpkin. Cut into cubes,

Grind well in a mixie. Pumpkin puree is ready.

You can use this puree for halwa preparation too and no need to grate pumpkin.