Fat Free Pumpkin Spice Ring

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 1 1/4 cups cake flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 14 egg whites
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 8 ounces pumpkin puree (solid packed)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375. in medium bowl, with fork, mix flour, cinnamon, salt, ginger, nutmeg, and 1 cup confectioners' sugar. set aside.
• 2 in large bowl, with mixer at high speed, beat egg whites and cream of tartar until soft peaks form. beat in vanilla. beating at high speed, sprinkle in 1 cup confectioners' sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating until sugar dissolves and whites stand in stiff peaks. remove 1 cup beaten egg- mixture to medium bowl; fold in pumpkin.
• 3 with rubber spatula or wire whisk, fold flour mixture into beaten egg whites in large bowl just until flour disappears. then, gently fold in pumpkin mixture. do not overmix.
• 4 pour batter into ungreased 10-inch tube pan. bake 35 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched. invert cake in pan on funnel or bottle. cool completely in pan.
• 5 loosen cake from pan. place cake on plate. sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.