Pumpkin Maple Cake

Pumpkin Maple Cake – moist, fluffy and super delicious pumpkin cake with cream cheese and maple frosting ideal for the festive season.

This is the best and most delicious Pumpkin Cake ever! The cake is light and fluffy, topped with a sweet and rich layer of cream cheese and drizzled with cinnamon-maple syrup sauce.

You are going to love this amazing festive cake and will certainly appreciate how easy it is to put together. My kids love it and they asked me to make it for Thanksgiving this year.

I am a big fan of anything pumpkin, and you can probably tell that by the number of different pumpkin recipes I have on my blog. Traditionally, I make Pumpkin Pie during Thanksgiving but lately I have been leaning more towards making this cake. I hope you give it a try.

Ingredients Needed:

To make this Pumpkin Maple Cake you will need:

For the Cake:

• all–purpose flour
• baking powder and baking soda
• pinch of salt
• pumpkin spice
• granulated sugar
• eggs
• vegetable oil (I use avocado oil)
• Pumpkin Puree

For the Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting:

• cream cheese, at room temperature
• heavy whipping cream
• vanilla extract
• maple syrup

For the maple–cinnamon sauce:

• maple syrup
• powdered sugar
• cinnamon

how to make pumpkin maple cake

First, preheat the oven to 350F (180C); grease a 3 x 8-inch round baking pan and set aside.

In a mixing bowl sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin spices. Set aside.

In a stand mixer fitted with wire attachment whisk eggs, sugar and oil until double in volume. Add pumpkin purée. Beat to combine.

Fold in the dry ingredients using rubber spatula until just combined.

Pour the batter in prepared pan and bake for 45–55 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Remove from oven and let cool completely.

Whipped Cream cheese frosting

In a medium bowl combine cream cheese, maple syrup and vanilla. Mix well until fully combined.

Next, in a stand mixer fitted with wire attachment (you can use hand mixer too) whisk on high speed the heavy cream until a stiff peak forms. Add about 1/4 of the whipped cream to the cream cheese mixture and combine fully. Then add the rest of the cream and fold gently until mixed well.

maple cinnamon sauce

In a small bowl combine maple syrup with powdered sugar and cinnamon. Mix well until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Assembling The Cake

Once the cake is cooled completely, spread the cream cheese frosting on top using an offset spatula.

Finally, drizzle the maple–cinnamon sauce on top and cut the cake to slices.

Cut the cake to 8 pieces and serve.

Try those pumpkin based recipes this festive season:

Pumpkin Coconut Bread
Pumpkin Spice Cake
and also Pumpkin Spice Muffins