Ingredients
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1/2 cup butter
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1 1/2 cups sugar
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2 eggs
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1 teaspoon vanilla
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2 medium apples, peeled and diced
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1 cup canned pumpkin puree
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2 cups all-purpose flour
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1 teaspoon baking powder
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3/4 teaspoon baking soda
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
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1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
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1/4 teaspoon clove
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1/4 teaspoon ginger
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2 teaspoons orange zest
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confectioners' sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 350.
- Mix dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside.
- Cream butter in an elec mixer then beat in sugar until the mixture is pale yellow.
- Add the eggs one at a time.
- Stir in apples (I use Golden Delicious) and vanilla.
- Add pumpkin and mix, scraping down the sides of the bowl.
- Add the orange peel if you like, it's optional.
- Blend in the dry ingredients a bit at a time until well mixed, add peel if you choose.
- grease and flour a 9" bundt pan or two loaf pans; cook cake for 55/60 minutes or loaves for 45/50 minutes (check with cake tester at 45 minutes).
- Cool in pan for about 10 minutes, loosen and turn out on board to cool completely.
- Dust with confectioner's sugar when completely cool.