Pumpkin spice cake

Name: pumpkin spice cake
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 170 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: fresh pumpkin; 8 el tap water; 1 lemon; 250 g raw cane sugar; 250 g unsalted butter or margarine; 5 medium sized egg; 50 ml fresh cream cup of 125 ml; 1,5 el biscuit and speculaas spices; 2 tl baking powder; 250 g self raising flour; 225 g strawberry rhubarb jam pot of 450 g; 1,5 el ground cinnamon; 4 el powdered sugar; 500 g mascarpone container of 250 g; 100 g chocolate extra pure 72%

Pumpkin pie with cinnamon, biscuits with a creamy topping of chocolate.

Ingredients

Kitchen Stuff

1 blender
1 spring form (Ø 24 cm)

Directions

Remove the seeds and the stringy inside of the pumpkin, cut off the peel with a sharp knife and cut the flesh into pieces.
Put them in a pan and cook with the water in 10 min. Until done with the lid on the pan.
Purée with the hand blender to a smooth puree. Let cool on a plate.
In the meantime, preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
Meanwhile, grease the spring form and coat with baking paper.
Clean the lemon and grate the yellow skin.
Beat with a mixer the butter with the cane sugar in a bowl in 5 min. Light and airy.
Add eggs one at a time, add a next egg only if the previous one is completely included.
Then sprinkle the flour, the baking powder and spices through. Then mix with a spatula the lemon zest, the whipped cream and chilled pumpkin puree.
Spoon the batter into the spring form. Fry the cake in about 70 minutes until done.
Check after 1 hour on doneness with the skewer. If it comes out clean, the cake is cooked.
Allow to cool completely on a grid in 1 hour.
Halve the cake with a bread knife. Brush the bottom half with the jam.
Put the other half up with the cutting edge upwards.
Stir in the mascarpone with the icing sugar and cinnamon and spread over the top of the cake.
Bring a pot of water to the boil. Hang a slightly smaller bowl or pan, which should not touch the water.
Let the chocolate melt in it (au bain-marie).
Fold a cornet of baking paper and fill with melted chocolate. Draw stripes on the mascarpone layer.