Pumpkin Cake is an excellent dessert. It is done not only in the fall, but also at any time of the year. Its composition may include a variety of products: cottage cheese, apples, carrots, kiwi, bananas and many others. The result is a delicate and delicious dessert. In summer, the flesh of the pumpkin is more tender and soft, and in winter it is denser, not only outside but also inside. Therefore, before you start making pumpkin cake, you need to know its grade. In any case, any orange beauty resembles the autumn season.
Good to know
Pumpkin is a very useful product in which there are practically no calories, and there are a lot of vitamins. Nutritionists recommend consuming pumpkin for those ladies who want to lose weight and can not. Doctors recommend eating this product to people who have heart problems, since it has a large amount of potassium. It can also be used as a sedative. But, of course, not raw, but cooked. Then you can cook wonderful desserts from this product. They will be delicious and very healthy. Believe me, a pumpkin cake is very unusual in taste . We will tell you the recipes for its preparation.
First cake
1. Half the middle pumpkin cut into cubes and put in boiling water. It must be boiled until it becomes soft. It usually takes 5-7 minutes. As soon as it becomes soft, you can get it. If the pumpkin is harsh, then a little longer. Then grind it with a blender to a puree consistency.
2. Grate one large carrot in raw form on a fine grater, or you can chop it with a knife.
3. Then you need to mix one and a half cups of flour, 10 grams of baking powder, a glass of sugar, 5 grams of cinnamon.
4. In a separate container, pour a glass of milk and add 5 ml. lemon natural juice to make yogurt.
5. Then you need to mix 3 large eggs and a pinch of salt.
6. In a separate plate, soak a glass of candied fruit and walnuts (about 10 kernels), you can slightly more, there will be a more pronounced taste. For 5-7 minutes in very hot water to soften, then dry well.
7. All previous ingredients must be mixed in one large container until smooth. Grease the baking dish with margarine or refined sunflower oil. Pour everything into a container. The oven is necessary at a temperature of about 180 degrees, in some ovens 200 - 1 hour.
8. As the cake becomes ready, it needs to be cooled, then cut into two halves. Lubricate with any cream that is preferred in this family. Perhaps creamy, buttery, egg or other at your discretion.
Cake with cottage cheese
The next pie is as easy to prepare as a cottage cheese casserole. Only there you can add a useful product - pumpkin. This recipe will appeal not only to adults, but also to children. It is prepared very simply, and most importantly, it is not for long.
Cooking
1. In a water bath, melt half a two-hundred-gram pack of butter, even easier in the microwave. Put it in a container, add 50 gr. granulated sugar (or powdered) and an egg (2 pcs. are also possible, it will not be worse). Mix well and thoroughly.
2. A glass of flour should be added to the same container and knead the dough.
3. Half a round pumpkin must be peeled and peeled. You need to grate or cut into small cubes and put to cook for 5 minutes, watch until it becomes soft, maybe this process will take a couple of minutes more time.
4. Meanwhile, we cover the baking dish with special paper and spread the dough there. We make beads high and thick. Then you need to put in a cold place for 40-45 minutes.
5. After the pumpkin has cooled, you need to beat it in a blender to a puree state. Add a quarter cup of sugar, 15 grams of starch. Mix with a blender.
6. 2 egg yolks are added to the mass and again beat with a blender until smooth.
7. Beat 2 squirrels separately, they must be carefully added to the pumpkin mixture. Do not whisk with a blender. You need to do this carefully using a wooden spatula.
8. 2 eggs divided, proteins in one direction, yolks in the other. Beat a large pack of cottage cheese (usually 350-400 gr.) With a blender, add about seventy grams of granulated sugar, 2 yolks and 10-12 gr. starch. Mix all this with a blender. Squirrels must be whipped separately, and then very carefully introduced to the curd, no longer mixing with a blender.
10. Now you can get the dough out of a cold place. Pour a spoonful of curd mixture into the mold, then pumpkin. So take turns. The fillings themselves will spread as they should. But only it should be poured before the end of the side, no further. It is better to cook something else from the remaining filling. You need to cover the cake with pumpkin and cottage cheese with special baking paper and can be sent to the oven, heated to 180 degrees. After half an hour, you need to check with a toothpick or a match.
The next pie was invented in Hungarian cuisine. The most important feature in it is that no one will guess the first time what the dough is made of. Those people who claim that they do not like pumpkin in any way will be happy to try a masterpiece. They will never believe that she is the basis of this test.
Pumpkin and Apple Cake
1. The pumpkin must be peeled on top and inside so that one pulp remains, cut into cubes and bake until it starts to boil. Then you can beat with a blender. Mashed potatoes should be at the exit of 250-300 grams. It should be borne in mind that when baking, weight is lost, so you need about 500 g of pumpkin initially.
2. 50 grams of walnuts chop very hard, until crumbs.
3. In the empty bowl we put the products: butter or margarine, about 45-50 g, nuts that were previously crushed, sugar 75-80 g, flour (about 2 cups), 1 bag of baking powder (10 g), add cinnamon, cloves , salt and cardamom in ground form, just a pinch, and, of course, pumpkin.
4. Now you can knead the dough. It should turn out soft. Sticks to hands quite a bit. In this case, grease them with butter.
5. It is necessary to cut peeled apples into small slices.
6. The dough should be divided into two parts. The first should be more than the second. Somewhere you get ¾ and ¼. The larger one is placed in a baking dish pre-coated with paper. Top you need to beautifully lay the apples and sprinkle with cinnamon and vanilla. Spread the dough, which is smaller, on apples as the hostess likes.
7. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Then you need to send a pie there. When it becomes rosy from above, then it can be checked for readiness.
Conclusion
You need to bake pumpkin cake as often as possible. The recipes for this dessert are varied, so choose the one that you like. The great advantage of this dessert is that it is not only tasty, but also very healthy, because the main component is pumpkin. Even the children will like the cake, the photo of which is presented in the article, and they definitely know what is tasty and what is not.