Here's a super Autumnal baking recipe: this pumpkin cake is all the best flavors of September + October in a bite. This is a slightly healthier than average bundt cake. It's made with pumpkin, maple syrup, and cardamom, and topped with a yogurt-cardamom glaze. It's my favorite pumpkin cake I've ever made, and the cardamom and maple syrup are such fall-y flavors.
the inspiration
The cake can be made quickly in a stand mixer, and I used this bundt cake mold from Amazon. The cake crumb is really moist and tender from the combination of pumpkin, maple syrup, and brown sugar. I used whole wheat flour, so that makes it healthy, right? (haha) You'll want to curl up with a blanket and a mug of tea with this cake.
how to make a healthy pumpkin spice bundt cake
Check out the full recipe below to make this yummy cake. The batter does yield a lot, since bundt cakes require typically a large volume of batter. To make the glaze, I just mixed together a small tub of Greek yogurt (the 1 cup container) with some powdered sugar and added in a half teaspoon of cardamom for extra flavor.
Enjoy!
Healthy Pumpkin Bundt Cake
Ingredients
Pumpkin Cake
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cloves, cinnamon, and cardamom - 1 teaspoon each
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 2 cups pumpkin puree
- ½ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup real maple syrup
- 3 tablespoon milk
- 3 eggs
Yogurt Glaze
- ½ cup yogurt
- 1 ¼ cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon cardamom
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. Prepare bundt cake pan with some baking spray.
- Mix the dry ingredients (flours, baking soda, baking powder, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, salt, and sugar). In a separate bowl, mix the wet ingredients (pumpkin, oil, maple syrup, milk, and eggs).
- Combine the dry and wet ingredients in a large mixing bowl, stirring until just combined.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes.
- Let cool completely. While it's cooling, prepare the glaze. Combine labneh, powdered sugar, cardamom and maple syrup in a small bowl.
- Glaze when done!