Pumpkin puree muffin in the oven

We wash the pumpkin, dry it. Cut off the upper rough skin from it, cut it in half and remove the seeds from the inside. Tough pumpkin skins are easy to handle with a slotted vegetable peeler. Cut the prepared pulp into small pieces.

Let's make pumpkin puree. To do this, place the pumpkin pieces in a suitable dish and put them in the microwave for three to five minutes. Cook the pumpkin until soft. Taste the slices periodically and remove the pumpkin from the microwave when it is completely soft. Alternatively, you can also bake the sliced ​​pumpkin in the oven. The baking temperature is 180 degrees. Time is approximately twenty to thirty minutes. After cooking in any way, cool the pumpkin to a warm state.

Turn the cooked pumpkin into a smooth puree using a hand blender. We measure out the right amount for making a cake.

Put spices in a bowl of pumpkin puree: cinnamon, ground cardamom and grated nutmeg. Remove the zest from the orange with a fine grater and pour it into the puree after the spices. We mix everything together. Squeeze juice from the remaining orange - you need a couple of tablespoons. We put the juice in the refrigerator.

Pour white sugar and brown sugar to the resulting mass. Stir until the grains dissolve.

Next, pour in vegetable oil - it should be odorless. Stir until smooth.

Separately, break the eggs into a bowl and shake them well with a whisk until smooth and light foam. Pour in the egg mass to the pumpkin mass.

Stir until smooth.

Sift the flour together with the baking powder through a sieve and pour into the liquid pumpkin mixture.

Mix everything together until a homogeneous mass is obtained. The dough turns out to be thick like sour cream. The mass flows off the spoon in a soft stream, and the mound on the dough does not spread immediately.

Finally, add walnuts to the dough. Chop them coarsely with a knife and pour into the mass, mix. If you want to enhance the nutty flavor in the dough, there is a little trick.Chopped nuts must be fried in a pan with the addition of a small piece of butter for two to three minutes. It is necessary for the nuts to become hot and begin to emit a pronounced aroma. Pour a pinch of salt into the nuts, mix and pour from the pan onto a plate. After cooling down, add the nuts to the dough. After this procedure, the nuts will "sound" much more intense in the cake.

Preheat the oven to a temperature of 180 degrees. Grease the baking dish with a small amount of odorless vegetable oil and sprinkle with flour. If the mold is silicone, no lubrication is required. We spread the prepared dough in the prepared form. Place the dish in the oven on a medium level and bake for fifty minutes. Baking times may vary depending on the oven. Focusing on the type of cake: it should increase slightly in volume and be covered with a golden-brown crust. Towards the end of baking, we check the readiness with a toothpick: if it comes out of the cake dry, then you can already get it out of the oven.

We immediately remove the finished cake from the mold and place it on the wire rack. Be sure to let it cool completely. At the same time, we prepare the glaze by mixing one or two tablespoons of orange juice with powdered sugar - the consistency of the glaze should be thick, but fluid. Pour icing on the cooled product and let it grab, after which the cake can be served.