5.0 from 3 votes
Easy Pumpkin Cake
This pumpkin spice cake requires no mixer and only one bowl! Top with cream cheese frosting and toffee drizzle and watch it disappear fast…
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
1 hr 5 mins
Servings: 9 slices
Calories: 625 kcal
Course:
Cake
Cuisine:
American
Ingredients
For the cake
- 2 large eggs
- 250 g (1 ½ cups) sugar
- 115 g (½ cup) unsalted butter melted
- 425 g (15oz) can solid-pack pumpkin
- 320 g (2 ½ cups) flour plain / all purpose
- 2 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tbsp pumpkin spice
Toffee sauce
- 115 g (½ cup) unsalted butter
- 100 g (½ cup) light brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla paste or extract
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp yoghurt or heavy cream
Cream cheese frosting
- 230 g (8oz) cream cheese
- 100 g (½ cup) light brown sugar
- 1 tsp pumpkin spice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C (350F). Spray a 23cm/9in springform cake tin with cake release and line the bottom with baking paper.
- Mix the eggs, sugar, melted butter and pumpkin together in a big bowl.
- Add the flour, soda, pumpkin spice and salt and use a balloon whisk to mix everything together until smooth.
- Pour the batter into the prepared cake tin and smooth.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes, covering the cake with foil if it is browning too much. The cake is ready when a skewer insterten in the centre comes out clean and the cake is coming away from the sides of the tin.
- Cool for 10 minutes in the tin then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Prepare the toffee sauce. Put the butter andsugar in a small saucepan and whisk together over medium heat until the butter is completely melted and sugar has dissolved.
- Add the yoghurt or cream (take care as the toffee might sputter), vanilla and salt and boil for one minute. Leave to cool slightly.
- Beat the cream cheese, brown sugar and spice together using a hand or stand mixer until smooth.
- Spread the frosting over the cake and drizzle with the toffee sauce.
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Notes
- Cake recipe from Martha Stewart Cakes.
Nutrition Information
Calories
625kcal
(31%)
Carbohydrates
82g
(27%)
Protein
7g
(14%)
Fat
30g
(46%)
Saturated Fat
18g
(90%)
Cholesterol
120mg
(40%)
Sodium
471mg
(20%)
Potassium
217mg
(6%)
Fiber
2g
(8%)
Sugar
51g
(102%)
Vitamin A
8390IU
(168%)
Vitamin C
2.1mg
(2%)
Calcium
80mg
(8%)
Iron
2.9mg
(16%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 9slices
Amount Per Serving
Calories 625
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 625kcal | 31% |
| Carbohydrates | 82g | 27% |
| Protein | 7g | 14% |
| Fat | 30g | 46% |
| Saturated Fat | 18g | 90% |
| Cholesterol | 120mg | 40% |
| Sodium | 471mg | 20% |
| Potassium | 217mg | 5% |
| Fiber | 2g | 8% |
| Sugar | 51g | 102% |
| Vitamin A | 8390IU | 168% |
| Vitamin C | 2.1mg | 2% |
| Calcium | 80mg | 8% |
| Iron | 2.9mg | 16% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.