Best Pumpkin Cakes

This recipe is a real treat for pumpkin lovers. Pumpkin cakes prepared according to this recipe are very tender, tasty and fragrant.

Ingredients

• Pumpkin - 1.5 kg
• Eggs - 7 pcs.
• Flour - 140 g
• Powdered sugar - 350 g
• Zest of one lemon
• Milk - 250 ml
• Butter - for greasing molds

Directions

1. Peel and seed 1.5 kilograms of pumpkin and cut into cubes with a side of approximately 1.5 centimeters.
2. We put the pumpkin in a saucepan, pour one glass (250 milliliters) of milk and cook over low heat at a constant boil for about 15 minutes, until the pumpkin becomes soft.
3. We knead the pumpkin boiled in milk until a homogeneous mass is obtained and let it cool.
4. Transfer the cooled pumpkin to a large bowl, add salt, mix.
5. Sift 140 grams of flour into a bowl and mix again.
6. Add 350 grams of powdered sugar to the resulting mass, mix.
7. Add the zest of one lemon, mix everything well again and set aside.
8. Break 7 eggs into the bowl of a mixer and beat at high speed until a white fluffy foam is obtained. While the eggs are beating, grease the baking molds with oil. We shift the beaten eggs into a bowl with a pumpkin, mix.
9. Pour the pumpkin dough with a ladle into molds, oiled, filling them to the top.
10. Bake pumpkin muffins in a preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for about 30 minutes.
11. We take out the finished pumpkin cakes from the oven, let them cool slightly, put them on a wooden board and cool.
12. Serve pumpkin cakes with butter or sour cream. Decorate with pumpkin seeds, lemon, mint leaves.