Pumpkin-Spice-Latte Cake

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Celebrate PSL season with a fragrant, moist, and delicious cake that's very easy to make.

Prep Time:
20 mins
Total Time:
3 hrs
Servings:
10 to 12

This is the ultimate pumpkin spice latte cake, the easiest and most delicious fall dessert around. It’s a single-layer cake made with pumpkin puree, pumpkin pie spice, and instant espresso. It’s served with a topping of sweetened whipped cream and a dusting of instant espresso powder. You don’t need a mixer to make it, just two bowls—one for wet ingredients like eggs, brown and white sugars, and milk, and another larger bowl for the dry ingredients. It’s a recipe beginner bakers can make and everyone will love. It’s dense and moist and fragrant—and totally irresistible. 

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Lennart Weibull
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Ingredients

  • 1 stick unsalted butter, melted, plus more for pan

  • 1 ¾ cups unbleached all-purpose flour

  • 2 teaspoons baking powder

  • 4 teaspoons instant espresso powder, plus more for dusting

  • 1 ½ teaspoons Pumpkin-Pie Spice

  • ¾ teaspoon kosher salt

  • 2 large eggs, room temperature

  • ¾ cup pure pumpkin puree

  • ¾ cup granulated sugar

  • ½ cup packed light-brown sugar

  • cup whole milk, room temperature

  • 1 ½ cups heavy cream

  • 3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar

Directions

  1. Preheat oven, prep pan; combine dry ingredients:

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-by-2-inch round cake pan. Line bottom with parchment; butter parchment. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, instant espresso powder, pumpkin-pie spice, and salt.

  2. Mix wet ingredients: whisk wet ingredients into dry:

    In another bowl, whisk eggs into pumpkin puree, then whisk in butter, sugars, and milk. Whisk wet ingredients into dry ingredients.

  3. Transfer batter to prepared pan and bake:

    Scrape batter into prepared pan. Bake until top springs back when lightly touched, 35 to 40 minutes.

  4. Cool cake:

    Let cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes. Turn out onto rack and let cool completely, about 2 hours.

  5. Whisk cream and top cake:

    Whisk cream with confectioners' sugar until soft peaks form; dollop on top of cake and dust with espresso powder. Serve immediately.

    If the topping starts to look curdled while you are whisking, add a little more cream.

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Originally appeared: Martha Stewart Living, October 2016

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