Pumpkin Cake

My friend Miss Trickett and her mother (who was a professional pastry chef) shared this delicious recipe with me. This pumpkin cake is a recipe that I look forward to preparing every fall. You can also make it as cupcakes. It is moist and flavorful with delicious cheese cake frosting!

Pumpkin Cake
4 eggs
3/4 cup veg. oil
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups canned pumpkin
Mix above ingredients together in a large mixing bowl and add:

2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Mix together until just blended and pour into two 8 inch pans that have been greased and floured or lined with foil. Bake at 35o degrees for 20 minutes or until done. Do not over bake. Frost with cream cheese frosting when cool.

Cream Cheese Frosting:
3 ounces of cream cheese softened
1/2 stick (1/4 cup) of butter softened
2 cups powdered sugar (add more if desired, sweeten to taste)
Beat ingredients until fluffy.

Lemon Fruit Cake

Cream together:
2 cups sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 lb. butter

Add:
8 eggs, beaten
2 oz. lemon flavoring
1 lb pecans
1 lb. candied cherries
1 lb. candied pineapple

Sift together:
4 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder

Mix par of flour mixture with fruit and nuts. Add rest of flour to sugar mixture add fruit and nuts. Bake in 3 bread pans for 1 1/2 hours in a 300 degree oven. Put pan of water in bottom of oven.

Elgiva's Applesauce Cake

2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. alt
1/4 tsp. cloves
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup raisins (chopped)
1 cup nuts
1 cup thick applesauce

Mix shortening, sugar, egg, dry ingredients, raisins, nuts and applesauce. Bake 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

*Gladys wrote: I bake mine for 1 hour. Good