2011 New Recipe #20

Wendy had the missionaries over for dinner on Sunday, November 20th. She made chicken tortellini soup and cornbread. Linds and I were in charge of dessert and chose to make Citrus-Glazed Pumpkin-Carrot Cake. It was a fun recipe to make and nice to have someone help (especially with all those grated carrots!). It turned out really well except for the fact that I didn't have an angel food cake pan so I used a bundt pan, which wasn't big enough. At all. No worries, though, I just cut off the excess and it was fabulous! I such at taking pictures these days but it basically looked just like Martha's picture (people get us confused all the time) so here ya go!



Citrus-Glazed Pumpkin-Carrot Cake
www.marthastewart.com

Ingredients

3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan
5 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled), plus more for pan
4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons coarse salt
2 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 1/4 teaspoons ground ginger
1 1/3 cups light-brown sugar
3 large eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 can (15 ounces) pure pumpkin puree
1 3/4 cups finely grated carrots (about 7 medium carrots)
1 1/2 cups toasted walnuts, roughly chopped
Citrus Glaze

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 14-cup angel-food cake pan. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and ginger. In another large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and brown sugar on medium-high until light and fluffy, 4 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at a time, scraping down bowl as needed. In a medium bowl, whisk together buttermilk and pumpkin puree. With mixer on low, add flour mixture to butter mixture in three additions, alternating with two additions pumpkin mixture. Scrape down bowl as needed. Fold in carrots and walnuts.
Spread batter into pan, using a small spatula to fill any air pockets. Smooth top and firmly tap pan on a flat surface several times to remove air bubbles.
Bake until a wooden skewer inserted in center of cake comes out clean, 70 to 75 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Remove cake from pan. To serve, spoon glaze over top.


Citrus Glaze

Ingredients

2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon fresh orange juice
Pinch of coarse salt

Directions

In a medium bowl, stir together sugar, lemon and orange juices, and salt. Thin with additional juice if necessary (glaze should be consistency of heavy cream).