Pumpkin Pie Spice Cake
Author: Michelle Scott Date Posted:11 January 2021
A deliciously moist pumpkin cake with a cream cheese frosting. It is an easy one bowl mix with a warming, full spiced pumpkin flavour.
Ingredients
Cake
1 cup of plain flour
2 tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup raw sugar
2 large eggs
1 cup of pumpkin puree
1/2 cup of your choice of oil (I use olive oil)
1 tsp vanilla extract
Cream Cheese Frosting
170g softened cream cheese
1/4 cup softened butter
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp salt
Method
Cake
- Preheat the oven to 175 degrees and line a square 20cm cake tin with baking paper.
- Add the eggs, sugar, pumkin puree, oil, pumpkin spie spice mix and vanilla extract to a large bowl and whisk
- Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir until just mixed.
- Turn out the mix into the lined cake tin
- Cook for 35-40 mins or until skewer comes out clean
- Turn out the cake onto a cooling rack and cool completely.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- Put the cream cheese, butter, icing sugar, vanilla extract and salt into a large bowl
- Whisk until smooth and fluffy
- Turn out onto the cooled cake and smooth into a flat layer
- Slice, serve and enjoy.
TIP: The cake will keep for up to a week in an airtight container in the fridge.