If you haven't had your fill of pumpkin yet from the just departed Thanksgiving holiday, here's another option, Â One of our readers (Thanks, Rebecca!) added her own twist to The Amish Cook's pumpkin sheet cake recipe. Â Doesn't it look delicious? I've modified the original recipe below to make it into a "holiday cake." Â Yum! Â Also, put Lovina's homemade frosting recipe below which you can add to the cake. Send me a piece!:)
Homemade Holiday Pumpkin Cake
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
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. Spoon into a bundt pan and bake for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Â Add frosting:
THE AMISH COOK'S HOMEMADE FROSTING
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.
Cheryl
we would have home made pumpkin pie for Christmas too!
Cheryl
the cake looks fantastic!
Diana H
Yes, this photo looks delicious. Our family has made a version of this
for about 25 or 30 years, except we add nuts and raisins and cover
it w/ cream cheese icing. scrump-deli-icious!
Virginia
If people are offended by you calling it a Christmas cake then we should remove personal names from all things that have someone's name in it: Hopping "John"..."Johnny" cakes..."Napoleans"....I think it is crazy...fact is, the word "Holiday" comes from two words: HOLY DAY...if we aren't celebrating Christ's birth, it's nothing...not a holiday or Holy Day...The nit-picking makes me sad because there are far more important things in our lives to be fussing over.
Kevin
I agree with you, Virginia, every year around this time I get people jumping on me for calling something "Christmas cookies", etc....my daughter has a "Christmas dance program" in December and, well, I'll probably just keep calling it that with no disrespect intended for anyone else.