Orange Glazed Pumpkin Cake recipe post

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This makes a beautiful bundt and the flavor is out of this world. Just in time for autumn baking.

 

Orange Glazed Pumpkin Cake

 

Cake

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2 cups packed light brown sugar

3/4 cup butter flavor shortening

4 eggs

16 ounce can of pumpkin

1/4 cup water

2 1/2 cake flour (if using all purpose flour, minus 2 tablespoons per cup of flour, works perfectly)

4 tsp. baking powder

1 Tbspn. pumpkin pie spice

1 1/2 tsps. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1/2 cup raisins (optional, I know many people can't stand them LOL )

 

Glaze

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1 cup confectioner's sugar

3/4 tsp. orange zest (grated orange peel)

4 tsps. orange juice (little more if desired)

Optional* little more chopped walnuts if you desire

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 12 cup bundt pan.

Combine brown sugar and shortening in a large bowl. Beat until creamy.

Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Stir in pumpkin and water.

In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda and salt and stir to mix well.

Add the dry mixture to the pumpkin mixture, beating at a low speed until well blended.

Beat on medium speed about 2 minutes.

Fold in the walnuts and raisins

Spoon mixture into the bundt pan and bake 50-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Cool 10 mins before removing to wire rack or serving plate to cool.

 

For the glaze:

Combine confectioner's sugar, zest and orange juice. (add a few walnuts if desired). Spoon glaze over top of cake, letting the excess glaze run down the sides of the cake.

"In the present position of the planets, it's impossible to say;Just when I'll find my course again, with the boulders in my way.I should be rolling down the skyway on my cosmic wheels;Instead of stumbling down this highway on my boots of steel"Source: Cosmic Wheels by Donovan