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    Home » Everything Amish » Plain Culture

    Amish Holiday Pumpkin Cake

    Published: Oct 29, 2016 · Updated: Oct 29, 2016 by Kevin Williams | 1 Comment

    By Kevin Williams

    This is a popular recipe in Amish homes this time of year, often found on Thanksgiving or Christmas tables.  It's a simple, festive, tasty, and decorative dessert, so you might want to consider adding this to your menu this year.

    I am not sure whether I changed the name to "holiday" cake in a spasm of political correctness, because it does kind of look like a "Christmas cake." I don't know.  Either way the recipe is a great one, so check it out!

    Amish Holiday Pumpkin Cake
     
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    Prep time
    10 mins
    Cook time
    40 mins
    Total time
    50 mins
     
    Serves: 1 cake
    Ingredients
    • 2 cups sugar
    • 4 eggs
    • 1 cup vegetable oil
    • 2 cups flour
    • 2 cups pumpkin
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • 1 teaspoon soda
    • 2 teaspoons baking powder
    • 2 teaspoons cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice
    Instructions
    1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, combine sugar, eggs, vegetable oil, flour, nuts, pumpkin, salt, baking soda and cinnamon until the mixture is evenly and thoroughly combined.
    2. Spoon into a bundt pan and bake for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
    3. Add frosting:
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    Two heaping tablespoons of shortening and blend that together with three-fourths cup of powdered sugar. After it is smooth, add a tablespoon of vanilla. Then gradually add milk and additional powdered sugar, making it smooth enough for frosting — as thick or thin as you want it.

     

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    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    1. Barbara Arnold

      October 30, 2016 at 10:48 am

      In the recipe you never mentioned nuts but in instructions says add nuts

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