Pecan Pumpkin Cake

AUTHOR
Zackary Austin
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3 2
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
270 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 200 g Pecan kernels
  • 300 g Flour
  • 1 TEASPOON Cinnamon
  • 1 pck. Baking Powder
  • 400 g Hokkaido Pumpkin
  • 4 Eggs (Gr. M)
  • 400 g Sugar
  • 200 ml tasteless oil (e.g. sunflower oil)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and breadcrumbs
  • 200 g Dark chocolate
  • 25 g Coconut oil (e.g. palm oil)

Directions

  1. 1

    For the dough, grind 150 g pecans finely in the universal chopper. Mix with flour, cinnamon and baking powder. Wash, clean and coarsely grate the pumpkin. Weigh out approx. 300 g fruit flesh. Cream eggs and sugar with the whisk of the mixer. Stir in oil in a thin stream. Stir in the flour mixture briefly. Fold in pumpkin flesh.

  2. 2

    Pour the dough into a greased and with breadcrumbs strewn Bugelhupform (2.75 l content). Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 180 °C/circulating air: 160 °C/gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 1 hour (stick test!). Remove from the oven, let it cool down for about 5 minutes, then turn out of the mould and let it cool down.

  3. 3

    Coarsely chop 50 g pecans. Divide chocolate into pieces and melt in a hot water bath with coconut fat. Spread the icing on the cake. Sprinkle with pecans. Let it dry.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
490 kcal
CARBS
48 g
FATS
29 g
PROTEINS
5 g