Ingredients

  • nonstick cooking spray for pan
  • 4 cups cake flour or multi-grain cake flour, not self-rising
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 4 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature, plus more for pan
  • 2 1/2 cups light brown sugar packed
  • 4 large eggs
  • 2 cups buttermilk
  • 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts
  • 1 1/2 cups canned pumpkin puree
  • confectioners' sugar for sprinkling
  • icing Eggnog
  • 3 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 1/4 cup softened butter
  • eggnog cup commercial

Method

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 14-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray. Dust with flour, and tap out excess.
  • Whisk together flour, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, and cloves. Set aside.
  • Beat butter 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 walnuts. Beat until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
  • Bake cake until golden about 55 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Carefully turn cake onto rack too cool completely. Before serving, sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.