Oven-Baked Pumpkin Fritters

Most people just carve their pumpkin and never think about it again but it is a much more useful. I love to get a few pumpkins and turn them into puree for baking and soups. Of course there are the awesome seeds which you can roast and flavour however your heart desires. The pumpkin can stand alone at the dinner table or with this easy recipe you can show everyone in your family how awesome pumpkin really is. This easy recipe is fast and the kids will love it. A less “sinful” version of the traditional deep-fried pumpkin fritters

Ingredients:

 125g soft butter/margarine

 200 ml sugar

 3 eggs

 1 cup (250ml) cake flour

 15ml baking powder

 2 ml salt

 3 cups (750 ml) cooked finely mashed pumpkin

 5 ml vanilla essence

 fine cinnamon

Sauce:

 4 eggs

 1 cup (250ml) water

 1 cup (250ml) sugar

 pinch of salt

 1 heaped tablespoon maizena

 ½ cup (125ml) lemon juice

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 °C. Beat the butter, eggs and sugar well. Add to egg mixture the flour, salt and baking powder which have been sifted together. Mix well. Add cooked pumpkin, vanilla. Mix until well blended. Pour into greased muffin pans. Bake until done. Leave to set and cool. Combine the sauce ingredients. Cook and stir over medium heat until the sauce thickens. Drizzle spoonfuls of the sauce over baked pumpkin cakes. Sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar. The pumpkin cakes freeze well. Keep the leftover sauce in the fridge.

ENJOY / LEKKER EET

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