Pumpkin Patch Mini Cakes
12
50 minutes
Celebrate Halloween with these soft, pumpkin spiced mini sponges topped with silky cream cheese frosting and tiny fondant pumpkins. This cosy pumpkin spice cake recipe is a fun, seasonal twist on classic carrot cake, perfect for Autumn gatherings or weekend baking projects. Made with Mellow Yellow Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil, the cakes stay soft, light and moist, allowing the pumpkin purée and warm spices to shine.
Recipe by Jemma Loi
Method
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1
Heat the oven to 170°C fan and lightly grease your mini cake moulds.
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2
Add the flour, sugar, cinnamon and mixed spice to a large bowl and stir together.
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3
Add the eggs, Mellow Yellow Rapeseed Oil, pumpkin purée, milk and vanilla.
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4
Whisk just until smooth and combined.
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5
Divide between the moulds, filling each around two-thirds full.
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6
Bake for 15–20 minutes, checking from 15 minutes, until risen and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
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7
Leave in the moulds for 5–10 minutes before carefully turning out onto a wire rack. Leave to cool completely.
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8
For the frosting, beat the butter until smooth, then beat in the icing sugar. Add the cream cheese and vanilla last and mix briefly until smooth and thick.
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9
Pipe or spoon a small amount of frosting onto each cake, keeping the sides exposed.
Finish with a tiny fondant pumpkin and brown fondant stalk. -
10
To make the fondant simply add a drop of colour to each piece and massage it in your hands until the colours are evenly distributed. Roll the orange into a marble sized ball and create pumpkin grooves with a cocktail stick. Top with a little brown stalk.
Ingredients
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For the cakes:
180g self-raising flour
120g light brown sugar
2 large eggs
90ml Mellow Yellow Rapeseed Oil
100g pumpkin purée
50ml whole milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp mixed spice -
For the cream cheese frosting:
100g full-fat cream cheese
40g unsalted butter, softened
120–140g icing sugar
1/2 sp vanilla extract -
To decorate:
Fondant icing and orange and brown food colouring for:
Small orange fondant pumpkins
Small pieces of brown fondant for the stalks
