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Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Amaretti & Chocolate
Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Amaretti Cookies and Chocolate Chips is a soft, delicious Italian Ciambellone. It's perfect for the fall season when the pumpkins are ripe and plenty.Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake with Amaretti is a simple dessert, an easy breakfast or a quick snack. Match it with a cup of tea, milk with some chocolate or a good coffee.
Ingredients
- 3 eggs at room temperature
- 160 g brown sugar ¾ cup
- 80 ml vegetable oil 6 tablespoons
- 1 tablespoon orange zest grated
- 500 g pumpkin 1.1 pound of pumpkin pulp (weight net of waste)
- 100 g dark chocolate chips 10 tablespoons of
- cookies about 15 Amaretti Cookies
- 150 g flour 1 cup
- 16 g baking powder 4 teaspoons
Instructions
THE DOUGH
- To make Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Amaretti Cookies and Chocolate chips, start by cutting the pumpkin into cubes. Then placethem on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C (350°F) for 15 minutes, in order to make them wither and loose some liquid.
- Remove the pumpkin from the oven and transfer it to a bowl. Mash it with the tines of a fork until you get a smooth puree and let it cool.
- Chop the Amaretti cookies with a chopper and keep aside.
- In the bowl of a mixer, whisk the eggs with the brown sugar for about 5 minutes. When the sugar has melted and the eggs are very frothy, without stopping the mixer, add the oil, pouring it slowly. Let it incorporate well.
- Add the grated orange zest, the chopped Amaretti and the cooled pumpkin pulp to the dough, without stopping the mixer.
- When all the ingredients are well blended, add the flour, baking powder and dark chocolate chips as the last ingredient.
THE BAKING
- When all the ingredients are combined, stop the mixer. Pour the mixture into a 22 cm (9 inch) bundt cake pan, greased with oil and floured.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C (350°F) for about 40 minutes, until a wooden toothpick stuck in the cake comes out dry and clean. Take the cake out of the oven and let it cool before removing it from the mold.
- Let completly cool the Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Amaretti Cookies and Chocolate chips. Serve it sprinkled with powdered sugar or unsweetened cocoa powder.
Nutrition
Serving: 100gCalories: 335kcalCarbohydrates: 46gProtein: 6gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 6gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 62mgSodium: 255mgPotassium: 363mgFiber: 1gSugar: 26gVitamin A: 5414IUVitamin C: 7mgCalcium: 198mgIron: 2mg
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