Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Things are a bit crazy here at the moment, so I’m sneaking in this one while I’ve managed to sneak in a second on my laptop. But it’s a good crazy, my sister and my 2 year old nephew have flown all the way from england to visit and I’m mid taking them on a whirlwind tour of BC as I am trying to show them everything but there really isn’t enough time. Especially when my nephew really just wants to spend all day in the park.

We just got back from Tofino and my dream cabin in the mountains has now been upgraded to a cabin on the beach (I’ll settle for near), in the forest, with the mountains just behind. Not asking for too much right. While planning this trip I thought it would be my first time in Tofino, but my mum corrected me and told me we went when I was 4yrs old. One of my almost first memories was playing on the beach outside our cozy cabin that I knew was somewhere in Canada, I just didn’t realise it was Tofino. I did a little research and found the same cabins are still there just as I had remembered. And it gave us all the feels to go back and relive our childhood memories with the next generation in tow.

We had the best time. We went for morning walks on the beach with my nephew chasing down every dog in sight, taught him how to say other colours apart from red and not red, walked through magic forest walks of ancient trees which looked especially magical with some added red/orange/golden trees, and even had a little baby free time at the natural hot springs. It was hard to leave but we’ve got more fun things coming up because I could not let them leave Canada without seeing the bright blue turquoise lakes of the rockies, which we are all very excited about.

I am so glad they came to visit in fall, BC has not been more beautiful than it is now. Not to sound the same as everyone right now but I am completely in love with this season. This is my first Canadian fall and it is just simply stunning. England is beautiful in fall, but it is just another level of beautiful here.

The leaves are beyond amazing and I’m having to stop myself taking photos of trees every 2 seconds. So I put them on some c-a-k-e instead. We currently can’t say that word in the house, as my nephew has super sonic hearing for that word and it’s really hard to deny those puppy dog eyes. He has been gobbling down this cake and I hope you like it as much as he does.

Now it’s fall everything obviously has to be pumpkin spice flavoured and I feel no need to mess around with that. I’ve been on a real baking kick lately so another cake it is. I have to admit I’ve never used to be the biggest cake person. I’ve always been in #teampie. I’m not a fan of the light and fluffy (not much flavour) type of cake that seems to be so celebrated. This cake is anything but that.

Not being modest, lately I’ve gotten pretty good at the how to make dense and moist cakes, which really are the only types that should really exist, and am very much considering changing this whole blog into dense and moist only cake blog. This cake is just the right amount both and with the perfect dose of pumpkin and spice in every bite.

I’m also in an add buckwheat flour to every sweet thing phase, I just really love the extra nuttiness you get with it. Add on on thick layer of classic cream cheese frosting and you get just enough savoury for (in my opinion) the perfect pumpkin cake.

Hope you enjoy all the leaves and pumpkin spice things while you can!

– Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting –

Heat the oven to 350F. Grease 3, 6 inch cake pans, or 2, 8 inch cake pans.

In a large bowl mix all the dry ingredients and spice mix together. In another bowl whisk all the wet ingredients together. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and whisk together well.

Divide the batter evenly between the cake pans. Bake and check for doneness after 30mins until a toothpick into the middle comes out clean. Allow to cool for 5mins and then transfer to a cooling rack.

Frosting
Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla with electric whisk on medium till light and fluffly.

Turn down to low and slowly add the icing sugar one cup at a time till fully mixed in. Turn up to medium high and beat till light and fluffly.

To assemble
Frost the top of each cake layer and stack on top of each other. Spread a thick layer of frosting all over the assembled cake and decorate as desired. Enjoy!