Squash pound cake
By Chatelaine75
Photo, Erik Putz.
Ingredients
- 1 butternut squash
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp ginger
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- For butternut squash purée: Preheat oven to 400F.
- CUT squash into quarters. Scoop out and discard seeds. Roast pieces in a large baking dish covered with foil, until fork-tender, about 1 hour. Remove from oven. (Reserve some squash to garnish, if desired.) When cool enough to handle, scoop flesh from skins. Whirl in a food processor until smooth. (Purée refrigerates for up to 3 days.)
- For pound cake: Turn oven heat down to 350F.
- STIR flour with cinnamon, ginger, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl.
- BEAT granulated sugar with butter in a medium bowl, using an electric mixer on medium-high, until combined. Beat in eggs, 1 cup butternut squash purée and vanilla.
- BEAT flour mixture into squash mixture. Scrape into a lightly oiled 9 5-in. loaf pan. Bake until a skewer inserted into cake comes out clean, 1 hour 5 min to 1 hour 10 min. Cool in pan on a rack for 10 min, then turn loaf out onto rack to cool completely.
