Baked Pumpkin Cake

The ingredients have been separated as this recipe will be made in three stages.  Remove your cream cheese from the fridge before you start, this will make it easier to mix later.
Biscuit Base
¾ cup plain sweet biscuits
¼ cup ground Pecans
¼ cup brown sugar
60-70g softened butter
Mix dry ingredients together in mixer until biscuits are ground.  Add butter until the mixture sticks together, like wet sand.  Spread the mixture over the base of a well greased cake tin.  Push down mixture using the back of a spoon.
Centre of Pumpkin Cake
1 ½ cup mashed pumpkin
3 eggs
1 ½ tsp Cinnamon
1 ½ tsp Nutmeg
1 ½ tsp dry Ginger
½ tsp salt
½ cup brown sugar
750g softened cream cheese
½ cup sugar
2 tsp cornflour
2 tsp vanilla
2 tsp Bourbon
Preheat oven to 180C.  Add cream cheese, sugar and vanilla into a bowl and mix till smooth.  Add all remaining ingredients except eggs and mashed pumpkin.  Mix thoroughly.  Add eggs and masked pumpkin and mix.  Pour over your biscuit base.  Place in over for 1 hour. 
Topping
1/2 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons bourbon
For topping, mix sour cream and sugar together with bourbon.  Remove cake from oven 5 minutes before ready, pour mixture over surface and bake for remaining 5 minutes.  This will give a beautiful crunchy finish to your cake.
Remove from baking tin and let cool on cake rack.  Let set in fridge for later.  Serve with fresh cream.
Baked Pumpkin Cake is a beautiful cake made in three stages. It requires more preparation time than a standard cake, however it is well worth your time.

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