Pumpkin Cake

Name: Pumpkin Cake
Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Yield: 9
Ingredients: For the cake:; 230g light brown caster sugar; 180ml Mellow Yellow Rapeseed Oil; 4 medium eggs; 230g grated pumpkin; 150g sultanas; 1 large orange, finely grated zest; 230g self-raising flour; 1 rounded tsp bicarbonate of soda; 1 heaped tsp cinnamon; For the icing:; 1½ tbsp orange juice, approx.; 275g icing sugar sieved; Orange food colouring gel

1 hour 30 minutes

If you love our Carrot Cake, you’ll definitely want to try this delicious seasonal Pumpkin Cake – perfect for using up leftover Halloween pumpkin or baking with butternut squash. This easy recipe creates a wonderfully moist, light and fluffy sponge thanks to Mellow Yellow cold‑pressed rapeseed oil, finished with a sweet orange icing drizzled over the top.

A fun, autumnal bake that looks beautifully spooky and tastes even better.

Method

1

Preheat your oven to 180°C/160°fan.
2

Line a 20cm square baking tin with baking paper. Top tip: rub a drizzle of rapeseed oil on the sides to help stick the paper to the tin.
3

In a mixing bowl, sift together the flour and bicarbonate of soda. Put to one side.
4

In a large bowl, mix together your grated pumpkin, sugar, orange zest, sultanas, eggs, cinnamon, Mellow Yellow oil. Mix well together.
5

Add dry ingredients to the wet and mix until combined. Pour into your lined baking tin.
6

Bake for 45-50 minutes, or until soft and springy in the centre.
7

Leave to cool in the baking tin for 5 minutes, then take out the tin, peel off the baking paper and cool on a wire rack until completely cool.
8

Beat together 200g icing sugar and orange juice until smooth, adding the orange juice a little at a time, until your icing gets to the desired consistency.
9

In a smaller bowl mix 75g icing sugar, a little orange juice and some orange food colouring to the same consistency as the white icing. Place the orange icing in a piping bag and spoon the white icing over the cake, spreading evenly to cover the top of the cake. To create the orange web, pipe a spiral onto the cake, starting from the centre.
10

With a cocktail stick, drag lines outwards from the centre to form a web pattern. Leave to set then slice into 9 equal pieces.