Chocolate Pumpkin Cake
Ingredients
- 125g butter
- 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
- 2 Tbs golden syrup
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- 2 cup self raising flour
- 3 Tbs cocoa
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 Tbs dark rum
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup cold mashed pumpkin
Instructions
Grease two 20cm sponge tins (I line the bottoms with baking paper). Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add golden syrup and beat again. Gradually beat in the eggs, mixing well after each addition. Sift flour, cocoa and spices. Mix half the dry ingredients into the butter mixture. Stir in the rum and vanilla then the remaining dry ingredients. Add the pumpkin and mix thoroughly. Pour the mixture into the tins and bake at 180 C for 40 - 50 minutes. Turn out on a rack to cook. Fill and ice with your favourite chocolate icing. This a moist cake. You can make one large cake and adjust cooking times.