Autumn, the time of long walks, crisp leaves on the ground, chunky cardies, warming casseroles and of course, pumpkin spice lattes! If you love pumpkin spice, you have to make my slow cooker pumpkin spice pudding cake.
It’s a self-saucing pumpkin cake spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, all spice and cloves, and the rich glossy sauce itself is loaded with pumpkin spice flavour as well.
Pumpkin spice overload right here!
Pumpkin bakes
Pumpkin puree is THE best ingredient at this time of year. Use it in savoury dishes or in warming gently spiced drinks or bakes.
Last year I made a spiced pumpkin fruit cake with pumpkin buttercream icing when the pumpkin craving hit.
This year a slow cooker pumpkin spice pudding cake to serve hot with its own spiced sauce seemed to fit the bill perfectly.
Cover it with cream and cinnamon and its like a pumpkin spice latte in cake form! Well, without the coffee but you know what I mean.
The rich colour of the sponge and the dark brown of the pumpkin spiced syrupy sauce make this a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach.
If the chilly days make you want to stay under a blanket, a bowl of my pumpkin spice pudding cake will be like a warming hug for the soul. Or something.
Pumpkin spice, or pumpkin pie spice, is a mixture of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice and cloves, used in making pumpkin pies and which adds a warming kick and delicious scent to pumpkin which, let’s face it, could be a bit bland otherwise.
Check out my pumpkin spice churros where I shared the recipe I used to make my jar of pumpkin spice.
Ingredients
Here’s what you will need for this recipe, get the quantities in the recipe card further down:
- self-raising flour
- caster sugar
- butter
- baking powder
- pumpkin spice
- pumpkin puree
- salt
- egg
- egg white
- milk
Method
- Place the flour, caster sugar, baking powder, pumpkin spice and salt in a large bowl. Mix.
- Add the melted butter, then beat the eggs in a jug, add the milk and pumpkin purée and mix until smooth in the jug, before pouring into the bowl.
- Mix until combined well.
- Prepare your slow cooker by oiling the pot with a little vegetable oil, to prevent sticking.
- Spoon the cake mixture into the slow cooker pot.
- Boil the kettle, then measure the water out in a jug. Mix in the caster sugar and pumpkin spice and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Pour the mixture over the cake mixture. It will look odd but the sugar and water mixture will go underneath the sponge as it cooks and become the sauce.
- Cook on high for about two hours, until the cake has baked and risen and a cake tester or skewer comes out clean.
- Serve warm, straight from the pot, with cream (or custard!). Under the sponge you will have a rich glossy pumpkin spice syrup which you can spoon over the pudding cake.
Have you tried a self-saucing pudding cake in the slow cooker before? I hope you have! On my blog you’ll find recipes for lime and coconut, chocolate orange and lemon and berry.
They’re wonderful in the autumn and winter, and I find you get a lovely soft cake texture by cooking them in the slow cooker.
More pumpkin recipes
For more slow cooker recipes to make with pumpkin, how about:
You also might like:
- Pumpkin loaf from Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary
- Pumpkin butter from Tin and Thyme
- Pumpkin pie porridge from Hungry Healthy Happy
Recipe
Slow Cooker Pumpkin Spice Pudding Cake
Ingredients
- 250 g (1½ cups + 1 tbsp) self-raising flour
- 110 g (½ cup + 1 tbsp) caster sugar (superfine sugar)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1.5 tsp (1½ tsp) pumpkin spice
- pinch of salt
- 90 g (¼ cup + 2 tbsp) butter melted
- 150 g (1½ cups) pumpkin purée
- 1 medium egg
- 3 tbsp egg white
- 100 ml (¼ cup + 3 tbsp) semi-skimmed milk
For the sauce:
- 250 ml (1 cup) boiling water
- 100 g (½ cup) caster sugar (superfine sugar)
- 1 tbsp pumpkin spice
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Instructions
- Place the flour, caster sugar, baking powder, pumpkin spice and salt in a large bowl. Mix.250 g self-raising flour, 110 g caster sugar (superfine sugar), 1 tsp baking powder, 1.5 tsp pumpkin spice, pinch of salt
- Add the melted butter, then beat the eggs in a jug, add the milk and pumpkin purée and mix until smooth in the jug, before pouring into the bowl.90 g butter, 1 medium egg, 3 tbsp egg white, 100 ml semi-skimmed milk, 150 g pumpkin purée
- Mix until combined well.
- Prepare your slow cooker by oiling the pot with a little vegetable oil, to prevent sticking.
- Spoon the cake mixture into the slow cooker pot.
- Boil the kettle, then measure the water out in a jug. Mix in the caster sugar and pumpkin spice and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Pour the mixture over the cake mixture. It will look odd but the sugar and water mixture will go under each the sponge as it cooks and become the sauce.250 ml boiling water, 100 g caster sugar (superfine sugar), 1 tbsp pumpkin spice
- Cook on high for about two hours, until the cake has baked and risen and a cake tester or skewer comes out clean.
- Serve warm, straight from the pot, with cream. Under the sponge you will have a rich glossy pumpkin spice syrup which you can spoon over the pudding cake.
Janice says
This is just gorgeous and perfect for the cold weekend we’ve been haivng.
Roger says
Thank you so much! I think I never thought of ginger since no one likes it in our house but we will just have to suck it up!
Alica says
This looks so good. I’ve been put off from baking in my slow cookers as the sizes and shapes of slow cookers can vary. Yours looks the same as mine so very tempted to give this a whirl!
Mess in the Ness (@susan_barrie) says
This looks so good. I’ve been put off from baking in my slow cookers as the sizes and shapes of slow cookers can vary. Yours looks the same as mine so very tempted to give this a whirl!
bakingqueen74 says
Oh brilliant! Yes give it a whirl, so easy
Nayna Kanabar (@SIMPLYF00D) says
I would love this with some hot custard , it looks fabulous.
bakingqueen74 says
Custard is a great idea!
Jac -Tinned Tomatoes (@tinnedtoms) says
That looks amazing. I want it with custard. Like right now!
bakingqueen74 says
Me too! Might have to make another 🙂
fabfood4all says
This is the perfect autumn pudding, just want to dig right in! My daughter had me looking in the spice aisle of Tesco for Pumpkin Spice the other day but we couldn’t see any so I wasn’t sure if it was something you had to make yourself. Shall go and have a surf!
bakingqueen74 says
Definitely! Thank you. My recipe for pumpkin spice adapted from another is on my churros post, you just combine a few store cupboard spices, so easy.