This easy loaf cake has a soft, close crumb, a beautiful golden colour and enough warming spice to make the kitchen smell wonderful. Pumpkin Spice gives every slice consistent flavour without measuring cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmeg separately.

Pumpkin purée keeps the loaf moist for days, while a thin maple icing adds a gentle sweetness rather than burying the cake under a heavy topping.

🧾 Ingredients

• 250g pumpkin purée
• 150g soft light brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 120ml vegetable or rapeseed oil
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 200g plain flour
• 1½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 2 tsp Pumpkin Spice
• ¼ tsp fine sea salt
• 100g icing sugar
• 1½ tbsp maple syrup
• 1–2 tsp milk
• 1 tbsp toasted pumpkin seeds, optional

🍴 Instructions

1. Heat the oven to 160°C fan / 180°C conventional. Grease and line a 900g loaf tin.
2. Whisk the pumpkin purée, brown sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla until smooth.
3. In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, Pumpkin Spice and salt.
4. Fold the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture just until combined.
5. Spoon into the tin and bake for 50–60 minutes until risen and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
6. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack.
7. Mix the icing sugar, maple syrup and enough milk to make a thick but pourable icing. Drizzle over the fully cooled loaf and scatter with pumpkin seeds.

⏱️ Timings

• Prep: 20 minutes
• Cook: 50–60 minutes
• Makes: 10 slices

🥗 Serving Suggestions

Enjoy with tea or coffee, or serve slightly warm with crème fraîche for dessert. Store covered at room temperature for three days.

💛 Why This Recipe Works

Oil and pumpkin purée keep the crumb moist without making it heavy. Mixing only until the flour disappears prevents toughness, while the thin maple icing complements rather than overwhelms the spice.

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