Maple Pumpkin Cake w/ Pumpkin Shavings…. Yes please!

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I’ve edited this post to include a recipe for this scrumptious dessert due to popular request. I’ve found numerous ones online as well! Recipe posted after the jump!

Ingredients:

• 3 cups sifted cake flour, sifted shopping list
• 2 tsp baking powder shopping list
• 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon shopping list
• 1 tsp baking soda shopping list
• 1 tsp ground ginger shopping list
• 1/2 teaspoon salt shopping list
• 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice shopping list
• 1 tsp cake spice (mix of cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice) shopping list
• 1 tsp freshly grated nutmeg shopping list
• 2 cups sugar shopping list
• 1 cup canola oil or vegetable oil shopping list
• 4 large eggs shopping list
• 15 oz pure pumpkin (1 can) shopping list
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract shopping list
• 1 tsp maple extract

Preperation:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Butter and flour two 9-inch-diameter cake pans with 2″ sides (even better, use Baker’s Joy).
• Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and spices except for nutmeg into large bowl. Grate nutmeg and add to other dry ingredients. Stir to mix well.
• Beat sugar and oil in large bowl until well blended with electric mixtuer, about 2 minutes.
• Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add pumpkin, maple, and vanilla; beat until blended. Gradually add dry ingredients; beat just until incorporated.
• Divide batter between prepared pans.
• Bake cake until a skewer inserted into center comes out with just a few crumbs, about 30 minutes.
• Cool in pans ~20min. Finish cooling on wire rack.
• Frost with your choice of icing, a cream cheese frosting with maple flavoring is a nice touch. Decoration with candied nuts like pecans or walnuts adds a tasty texture. In the above photo they used pumpkin fudge shavings to adorn the top of the cake.

Recipe link, click here.