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Pumpkin Spice Cake with Orange Sauce
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1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs
3/4 cup mashed cooked pumpkin
1 tsp vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
Powdered sugar
Orange Sauce (see below)
Garnish: orange rind strips
Beat butter 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 cakepan.
Bake at 350° F. 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. Garnish, if desired.
ORANGE SAUCE:
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1 Tbl cornstarch
1-1/2 cups orange juice
1 tsp lemon juice
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.
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