Recipe: Pumpkin Pound Cake (Bundt, tube or loaves, Pillsbury's Complete Book of Baking)

PUMPKIN POUND CAKE

2 3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
6 eggs
1 cup pumpkin, cooked and mashed
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 tsp ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and lightly flour a 12 cup Bundt or tube pan or 2 loaf pans.

Cream together butter and sugar with electric mixer. Add vanilla and then eggs one at a time, mixing after each addition.

By hand stir in the dry ingredients alternately with the pumpkin.
Spoon into the prepared pan(s).

Bake at 350 degrees F 60-70 minutes. Cool in pan 15 minutes before removing.

Make 1 Bundt or tube cake or 2 loaves
Adapted from source: Pillsbury's Complete Book of Baking