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Pumpkin Spice Cake with Orange Sauce

Source of Recipe

Karen Selwyn


List of Ingredients

Pumpkin Spice Cake with Orange Sauce


1/2 cup margarine, softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs
3/4 cup mashed cooked pumpkin
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
Powdered sugar

Orange Sauce

1/3 cup light brown sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 1/2 cups orange juice
1 teaspoon lemon juice


Recipe



Beat margarine at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy;
gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until
blended after each addition. Stir in pumpkin and vanilla.

Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; gradually add to sugar mixture,
beating at low speed until blended after each addition. Pour into a
greased and floured 9-inch round cake pan.

Bake at 350° for 20 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center
comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan,
and cool on a wire rack.

Place a paper doily over cake; sift powdered sugar through a wire-mesh
strainer over doily. Remove doily, and serve with Orange Sauce.
Makes 8 servings.

ORANGE SAUCE

Whisk together all ingredients in a heavy saucepan until blended. Bring
mixture to a boil over medium heat, whisking constantly; boil, whisking
constantly, 1 minute.

Serve warm or cool.

Makes 1 3/4 cups.