Pumpkin Cake

Prep: 20min
| Servings: 1 | Cook: 1h
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Pumpkin cake is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the flower vegetable category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!

Ingredients

  • 250 g crouton crumbs
  • 50 g grated pine nuts
  • 100 g sugar
  • 150 g butter
  • 400 g pumpkin flesh (seeded and peeled)
  • 200 ml dry white wine
  • 1 tbsp freshly grated ginger
  • 0.25 tsp cinnamon
  • 3 eggs
  • 100 g sugar
  • 125 g whipping cream

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Melt the butter and mix with sugar, crouton crumbs, and ground pine nuts; press into a greased pie tin and bake in a preheated oven at 200°C for 10 minutes. Remove and lower the oven temperature to 160°C.

  2. 2.

    Cut the pumpkin flesh into small pieces and cook with wine, ginger, and cinnamon until soft, about 20 minutes; then puree and let cool.

  3. 3.

    Beat the eggs, sugar, and cream together and stir into the cold pumpkin mixture. Spread over the base, bake at 160°C for about 50 minutes, then rest in the turned-off oven for another 15 minutes. Remove and allow to cool. Serve with whipped cream.