An easy seasonal bake full of warmth and flavour, topped with fluffy citrus cream cheese frosting it’s hard to stop at one slice. You can use the flesh of pumpkin or butternut squash, with the overall texture being very similar to carrot cake.
I put this treat together for a local coffee morning my friend was hosting to raise money for Macmillan, and as it slices up into 24 pieces it was ideal for feeding the hoards of hungry mums. It seemed to go down well with everyone which is always a relief when you’re testing a new recipe.
It’s the perfect low faff bake if you’re having a crowd over for Halloween, or a great baking project to keep the kids happy on rainy days over half term.
If you’d like to make it you can find the recipe over on Parentdish.co.uk with the rest of my autumn collection, but do come back and tell me what you think if you make it as I love getting your comments.
Have a good week everyone 🙂
Blog events…
I’m going to enter my traybake into Emily’s blog event Recipe of The Week over on A Mummy Too
I’m also going to deliver a batch to Treat Petite hosted by Kat at The Baking Explorer and Cakeyboi with this month’s theme being Trick or Treat being a great fit for this traybake.
With plenty of pumpkin in this bake, I’m hooking this recipe up with Ren’s Simple and in Season
The pumpkin in this recipe means I’ll be entering into October’s round of Extra Veg, hosted this month by Emily at A Mummy Too on behalf of Fuss Free Flavours and Utterly Scrummy.
And finally I’ll call in at Bake of the Week with Casa Costello
Oh this does look rather love pumpkin loaf so I reckon I’d love this too, especially with the citrus cream cheese frosting… mmmm!
HHrrm… my keyboard went wonky there. This does look rather lovely, and I love pumpkin loaf…. etc 🙂
lol thanks Elizabeth!!!
Ooh lovely, I have to bake for the Beavers this weekend, they are doing apple bobbing too so this will go down really well! Yummy. Thanks for entering it into Simple and in Season – I’ve only just launched so I’ll add your link now x
Hope it goes down well at the weekend Ren!
Oops you’ve beaten me to it – thanks! x
Sounds delicious and very autumnal. Love cooking with pumpkin – I must try adding in orange and ginger though – YUM #recipeoftheweek
Thanks Hayley… there’s something so comforting about baking at this time of year!
Oh yes, I’ll have a slice of that Katie! Or maybe two!
Oooh go on Jac… have a couple!
Oh this looks perfectly Autumnal! And I do so love a good citrussy cream cheese frosting…
The frosting is delicious Jeanne… the bowl *may* have been licked clean 😉
Hi so glad that you called by #Bakeoftheweek with this beauty – Looks perfect for a coffee morning! Thanks for joining in with #Bakeoftheweek again – great to have you with us x
Thanks for having me over Helen!
This looks and sound lovely 🙂 perfect Halloween treat x #recipeoftheweek
Thanks Kirsty!
Great looking cake, I am always looking for new ideas as I bake a lot of cakes and I happen to have a couple of butternut in the larder….!
Nice one – happy baking!