Soft, delicate, colorful, simple to prepare a even easier to eat: the pumpkin pie it's the perfect dessert to celebrate Halloween (and not only)!

You can eat at Breakfast, to snack, as after a light meal, it can be soaked in milk, accompany with tea and fruit juices, cheer up the afternoons of children and, thanks to nutritional properties of pumpkin, it is very light and also suitable for those who are a diet and does not want to exaggerate.

If you don't finish it immediately, you can keep the cake and its softness for a few days under the classic glass bell jar.

The recipe for fluffy pumpkin pie

Ingredients

To make the pumpkin pie you will need: 300 g of flour, 170 g of sugar, 350 g of pumpkin, 50 g of corn starch, 3 eggs, 1 knob of butter (about 40 g), 1 sachet of baking powder , powdered sugar.

Method

Pumpkin pie, as mentioned, is really very simple to prepare. The first thing to do is to cut the pumpkin pulp into very small cubes and cook it in a pan with a knob of butter for about 10-15 minutes. When it is cooked, it must be finely chopped with a blender and set aside in a bowl.

In another container, you must then whip the eggs with the sugar until you get a homogeneous mixture, add the chopped pumpkin pulp, the flour and the corn starch, always continuing to whisk with a whisk. Only at the end add the baking powder and continue to mix until the dough becomes smooth and without lumps.

Finally, the cake should be cooked in a preheated oven at 170 ° for about 40 minutes. Check the cooking with a toothpick.