Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting |
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Prep Time: 30 Minutes Cook Time: 35 Minutes |
Ready In: 65 Minutes Servings: 12 |
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This sinfully delicious and easy-to-prepare cake has been in my family for years. We serve it every year with Christmas dinner - the holidays would not be the same without it! Ingredients:
4 whole eggs |
2 cups sugar |
1 cup vegetable oil |
2 cups self-rising flour |
2 teaspoons baking soda |
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon |
1 teaspoon baking powder |
1/2 teaspoon salt |
1 cup canned pumpkin |
1/2 cup butter, softened |
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese (at room temperature) |
1 box powdered sugar |
1/2 teaspoon vanilla |
1 cup pecans, chopped |
Directions:
1. TO PREPARE CAKE:Blend together eggs, sugar and oil on medium.
2. Sift together flour and next 4 ingedients and add to sugar mixture.
3. Blend well for 3 minutes on medium.
4. Blend in pumpkin.
5. Bake in 13 x 9 x 2 pan for 35 minutes at 325.
6. Cool and frost.
7. TO PREPARE FROSTING: Cream butter.
8. Blend in cream cheese.
9. Slowly add powdered sugar, blending well after each addition.
10. Blend in vanilla.
11. Stir in pecans.
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