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Halloween Pumpkin Cake Recipe

If you’re looking for a spooktacularly easy to make recipe for Halloween, then this scarily delicious Halloween Pumpkin Cake Recipe will do the trick and treat everyone!! 

Preparation Time: 20 minutes    Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients 

300g self-raising flour
300g light muscovado sugar
3 tsp mixed spice
2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
175g sultanas
½ tsp salt
4 eggs, beaten
200g butter, melted
zest of 1 orange
1 tablespoon of orange juice
500g (peeled weight) pumpkin or butternut squash flesh, grated

Topping
200g pack soft cheese
85g butter, softened
100g icing sugar, sifted
zest 1 orange and juice of half

Method

1. Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
2. Butter and line a 30 x 20cm baking or small roasting tin with baking parchment.
3. Put the flour, sugar, spice, bicarbonate of soda, sultanas and salt into a large bowl and stir to combine.
4. Beat the eggs into the melted butter, stir in the orange zest and juice, then mix with the dry ingredients till combined.
5. Stir in the pumpkin.
6. Pour the batter into the tin and bake for 30 mins, or until golden and springy to the touch.

Frost Topping: 
1. Beat together the cheese, butter, icing sugar, orange zest and 1 tsp of the juice till smooth and creamy, then set aside in the fridge.
2. When the cake is done, cool for 5 mins then turn it onto a cooling rack.
3. Prick it all over with a skewer and drizzle with the rest of the orange juice while still warm.

Leave to cool completely. If you like, trim the edges of the cake. Give the frosting a quick beat to loosen, then, using a palette knife, spread over the top of the cake in peaks and swirls. Cut into 15 generous portions.                                    

Recipe: Good Food magazine
 

Posted: 20 Oct 2016 by Claire Regan | with 0 comments

Tags: Halloween, recipes

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