So, just to prove it to my husband and to any other skeptics out there that pumpkin makes delicious desserts, here's the recipe for pumpkin and maple fairy cakes. They're sweet and spicy and delicious with a very nice flavour contrast between the sweet spicy cake and the slightly sharper cream cheese icing.
(Makes 12 fairy cakes)
Ingredients:
200g pumpkin, deseeded and cubed
1 and half cups of plain flour
pinch of salt
1 tspn baking powder
half tspn cinnamon
quarter tspn cloves
quarter tspn ground ginger
half cup of sugar
2 large eggs
6 tbspns butter
quarter cup of milk
quarter cup real maple syrup
200g cream cheese
200g icing sugar
1 tbspn water
2 tspns lemon juice
1. Roast the pumpkin in the oven 400F/ 200C for about 45mins
2. beat together the sugar and butter until smooth then add the eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly in between to get air into the batter.
3. Mix the flour, spices, salt and baking powder.
4. Liquidise the pumpkin, maple syrup and milk together.
5. Add the flour mix and the pumpkin mix to the batter, alternately a bit at a time, stirring in between with a metal spoon, trying to keep the air in as much as possible.
6. Spoon the mixture into 12 paper cases in a bun tin.
7. Bake at 160C/ 350F for 25 minutes then remove from the bun tin and cool on a rack.
8. Once they have cooled, beat the cream cheese, icing sugar, water and lemon juice together and spread generously over the cooled cakes. Perfect treats for the office, which is exactly where I brought the 6 I had left today.
Looks good lady, gonna try it out for some 2, 3, 5 & 6 year olds as well as the grown ups....
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