Thanksgiving Recipes
Pumpkin Apple Gingerbread Cake
Pumpkin Apple Gingerbread Cake is a wonderfully moist gingerbread. If you prefer, serve it with a soft ice cream or whipped topping.
Prep: 25 min | Bake: 55 min | Yield: 12 to 16 servings
Ingredients
Cake
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 2 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
- 4 large eggs
- 1 (15 ounce) can Libby's® 100% Pure Pumpkin
- 1 cup (1 large) baking apple (such as Granny Smith), peeled, shredded
- 1/2 cup molasses
- Powdered sugar
Hard Sauce
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) softened butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups sifted powdered sugar
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour* a 12 cup Bundt pan.
Cake
- Combine flour, baking powder, ginger, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice and salt in a medium bowl.
- Beat butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar in a large mixer bowl until creamy.
- Beat in eggs two at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Beat in pumpkin, apple and molasses.
- Gradually beat in flour mixture.
- Spoon batter into prepared Bundt pan.
- Bake for 55 to 60 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in bread comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes; invert onto serving platter.
- Dust with powdered sugar before serving.
- Serve warm with Hard Sauce.
Hard Sauce
- Beat butter and vanilla extract in small mixer bowl until smooth.
- Gradually beat in powdered sugar until fluffy.
Notes
* For best results, use our Pan Release!
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from: Nestlé® and VeryBestBaking.com
By: Libby's Pumpkin