Pumpkin sponge cake with thermomix

Preparation

1. The first thing we will do is the pumpkin puree
2. to start our cake we preheat the oven to 200ºC
3. then we will cut a pumpkin and remove the seeds
4. We will put them on a tray with baking paper and we will put
5. heat up and down / 90 minutes
6. we let cool until it doesn’t burn
7. We put a large bowl and a strainer and put the pumpkin pulp on the strainer
8. let it rest for a couple of hours to remove the water
9. We put the pumpkin without water in our Thermomix bowl and crush
10. 15 seconds / speed 6
11. We put the pure de calabza in the bowl (without the water) and reserve
12. We put the eggs in the glass and program
13. 5 minutes / speed 5
14. We add the sugar and program
15. 1 minute / speed 3
16. add the vanilla essence and oil and program
17. 1 minute / speed 3
18. With a strainer and a bowl we sift the flour, together with the spices and the chemical yeast
19. Add the pumpkin puree and program
20. 30 seconds / speed 2
21. add the sifted flour and program again
22. 30 seconds / speed 3
23. We add the milk and program
24. 15 seconds / speed 3
25. we prepare a sponge cake mold and grease it with a little butter or oil and pour the dough into the mold
26. we cover it with aluminum foil
27. and we make a small hole in the center
28. preheat the oven to 180ºC (heat up and down) and bake for 60 minutes
29. then we unmold and let cool

let’s go for the frosting

1. We put 200 grams of icing sugar in a bowl and we will add a little cream and we will stir it with a rod until we have a thick glaze
2. with the cake totally cold, we put the glaze on top