Spicy Pumpkin Bundt Cake

4 cups cake flour (I used spelt  ), plus more for dusting

4 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon ground ginger

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

1 cup safflower oil , plus more for pan

1 1/2 cups packed light-brown sugar

4 large eggs

1 cup buttermilk ( Homemade) 

1 1/2 cups pumpkin puree ( Homemade) but you can used canned

Confectioners' ( icing)  sugar, for dusting

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 14-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray. Dust with flour, and tap out excess.
2. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Set aside.
3. Beat oil and brown sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, on medium speed until pale and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping down sides of bowl. Reduce speed to low. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with the buttermilk. Beat until just combined. Add pumpkin puree, and beat until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
4. Bake cake until golden and a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Carefully turn cake onto rack too cool completely. Before serving, dust with confectioners' sugar.

Recipe adapted from Martha Stewart.com

Healthified Pumkin-Chocolate cookies

1 cup pureed pumpkin
1/4  cup Honey (or more? depending on how sweet you like them?) You can also use sugar if preffered
1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce
1 egg
1Tbs. Vanilla
2 cups Whole wheat flour
2 tsp. Baking powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/8 tsp. Nutmeg
1/8 tsp. Ground Cloves
1/8 tsp. Ground ginger (optional)
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 tsp. Milk
1 cup Semi sweet choc-chips 

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Combine pumpkin, honey, applesauce, egg and vanilla and mix well (we’ll call this the WET mixture)
Combine by whisking: flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt in a separate bowl (aka DRY mixture)
Dissolve baking soda in milk, then add to WET mixture
Gradually add DRY mixture to WET and mix until just combined
Fold in chocolate chips
Grease cookie sheet and use an ice cream scoop to measure out
Bake for 10-12 minutes until they no longer look wet
Let sit on pan for 2 minutes then remove to a wire rack to cool