{"id":4862,"date":"2009-10-30T04:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/\/wp\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2023-08-02T02:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T06:11:14","slug":"teris-pumpkin-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=4862","title":{"rendered":"Teri’s Pumpkin Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before I get to today\u2019s recipe, I\u2019d like to remind readers about my beloved Pudding Hollow Pudding Festival<\/a>, scheduled for TOMORRROW\u2014Halloween! <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Anyone within shouting distance of western Massachusetts should definitely come (and perhaps enter the festival’s pudding contest).\u00a0This event\u00a0offers food, music, and lots of fun. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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You may come as you are, of course, but there WILL be a prize for best costume for those who feel like dressing up. Sage green homecoming dresses for 2023<\/a> can be used as dressing up as fairies.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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AND I wanted to mention that we have a winner in the drawng for the book The Perfect Pumpkin<\/em>. Congratulations to Madge Solomon of Falls Church, Virgnia! I hope to have another drawing soon.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Now, on to a perfect Halloween recipe. This cake is ideal for the season\u2014moist, full of good things (a treat), and a little surprising (a treat).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I learned to make it\u00a0from my graduate-school friend Teri Tynes. Teri is smart, vivacious, and just plain fun. Her award-winning blog, Walking Off the Big Apple<\/a><\/em>, is the thinking woman\u2019s (and yes,\u00a0the thinking\u00a0man\u2019s) guide to New York.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Teri uses her vast knowledge of American culture and history to view the city through the prisms of art, literature, fashion, and photography.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I love to make her pumpkin cake at this time of year and think of her.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The Cake:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Ingredients:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
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1-1\/2 cups canola oil
\n2 cups sugar
\n3-1\/8 cups flour
\n2 teaspoons cinnamon
\n2 teaspoons allspice
\n1 teaspoon salt
\n2 teaspoons baking powder
\n2 teaspoons baking soda
\n2 cups mashed pumpkin
\n4 eggs
\n1 teaspoon vanilla
\n1 cup chopped nuts
\n1 cup raisins<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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My friend Chas grew this lovely little pumpkin.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Instructions:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan (or spray it with Baker’s Joy<\/a>). Mix the oil and sugar in a large bowl. Combine 3 cups of the flour and the other dry ingredients and add them to the oil and sugar along with the pumpkin. (Reserve the remaining flour.) Add the eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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In a separate bowl, mix the remaining 1\/8 cup flour with the nuts and raisins. Add them to the batter. Spoon into\u00a0the prepared\u00a0pan. Bake for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Frost with raisin frosting. Serves 10 to 12.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Teri\u2019s Secret Raisin Frosting<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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This icing is a bit tricky. It can almost burn if you don’t stir carefully. It looks a little strange and lumpy as it goes on the cake, but the texture of the final product is one of its joys. I love the fact that it\u2019s SUPPOSED to look messy since most of my baked goods look that way anyway.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Ingredients:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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1 cup evaporated milk
\n1 cup sugar
\n3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
\n1\/2 cup (1 stick) sweet butter
\n1 teaspoon vanilla
\n1 cup raisins (plus a few more if you can’t resist; I usually just throw them in impulsively)
\n1 generous handful of flaked, sweetened coconut<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Instructions:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Combine the first 5 ingredients in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat for 12 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Stir in the coconut and raisins. Let the frosting stand for a minute (or maybe 2 or 3) to cool slightly. Spoon and spread it generously over your pumpkin cake.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I was hoping to look exotic and gorgeous in these glasses, like Halle Berry in “Catwoman.” Instead, I’m afraid I look more like Gloria Swanson in “Sunset Boulevard”–creepy and middle aged.\u00a0Oh, well … Halle, Gloria, and Tinky all\u00a0wish you a Happy Halloween!<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0 Before I get to today\u2019s recipe, I\u2019d like to remind readers about my beloved Pudding Hollow Pudding Festival, scheduled for TOMORRROW\u2014Halloween! \u00a0 Anyone within shouting distance of western Massachusetts should definitely come (and perhaps enter the festival’s pudding contest).\u00a0This event\u00a0offers food, music, and lots of fun. \u00a0 You may come as you are, of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,33],"tags":[845,844,329,385],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13098,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions\/13098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}