#1817 - Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cake

(by Shirley McNevich)

2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1/4 tsp. allspice
1/2 tsp. ginger
2 cups white sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
4 eggs
1 cup canola oil
2 cups Libby's canned pumpkin
1 1/2 cups bran flakes cereal
1 - 6oz. bag Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate bits
1 cup chopped nuts

Sift the flour into a bowl. Add baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ground cloves, allspice, ginger, baking soda, and white sugar--stir. In a mixer add eggs--beat until foamy. Add pumpkin, canola oil and bran flakes--beat until well mixed. Remove bowl from mixer--add the flour/spice mixture--stir with a wooden spoon just until mixed. Add chocolate bits and nuts--stir just until mixed. Pour batter into an UNgreased 10" tube cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes--test with a toothpick for doneness. Cool before removing from pan. Glaze as desired.