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Ginger Tea Cake
From Food Network Kitchens

Ingredients
2 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon fine salt
1 cup canned pure pumpkin puree
1/4 cup reduced-fat buttermilk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 packed cup light brown sugar
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1/4 cup finely chopped crystallized ginger

Confectioners' sugar, optional

Directions
Position a rack in the lower third of the oven and
preheat to 350 degrees F.

Line a large (4 1/2-inch by 9 1/2-inch) metal loaf pan with parchment paper and
spray with nonstick cooking spray.

Sift the flour, baking soda, ginger and salt into a medium bowl. Whisk the
pumpkin, buttermilk, and vanilla in another bowl.

Beat the butter with an electric mixer at medium speed until smooth, about 1
minute. Add the light brown sugar and continue beating until light and fluffy,

about 4 minutes more. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
At low speed, add the flour mixture in 3 parts, alternating with the pumpkin
mixture in 2 parts, beginning and ending with the flour. Mix briefly at medium-low
speed to make a smooth batter. Turn off beaters and add the crystallized ginger.
Finish folding batter--which will be thick--by hand with a rubber spatula.

Scrape batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake until a cake tester
inserted into the cake comes out clean and top springs back when lightly pressed,
about 55 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack 10 to 15 minutes, then invert pan to
release cake onto rack to cool. Dust with confectioners' sugar, if desired. Serve.
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