Pumpkin Cake (Healthy Style with a Gluten Free Charm)
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Recipe type: Cake
Cuisine: Gluten Free
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Serves: 12
 
As Fall approaches...I LOVE everything PUMPKIN!!!! Here is another option for a gluten free pumpkin cake. This one is dense with nutrition and full of flavor!
Ingredients
  • Ingredients
  • 1 ½ cups your favorite gluten free flour blend or almond meal flour
  • 1 ½ cups organic oats pulsed in blender or vitamix
  • 3 Tablespoons flax meal
  • 1 Tablespoon hemp seed
  • 1 Tablespoon chia seed
  • ¼ cup whey based protein powder (vanilla or pumpkin flavored)
  • ¼ cup brown sugar or honey (optional if you are using chocolate chips)
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 Tablespoons almond milk
  • 4 Tablespoons coconut oil
  • 1 cup pumpkin puree
  • ¾ cup unsweetened applesauce
  • ⅓ cup raisins
  • ⅓ cup chopped walnuts
  • 1 cup chocolate chips or pumpkin flavored white chocolate chips
  • Frosting
  • ¼ cup softened butter
  • 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 2-3 Tablespoons almond milk
Instructions
  1. Mix together all dry ingredients in a large bowl. Mix together all wet ingredients in a small bowl. Pour wet ingredients over dry ingredients and stir until moistened throughout. Add nuts and raisins and chocolate chips and stir just a bit to blend. (This pumpkin cake is not as sweet as conventional pumpkin cake so feel free to add the ¼ cup brown sugar/honey as well as the chocolate chips or pumpkin white chocolate chips). Bake 350 degrees for 45 minutes if using a bundt pan and 50 minutes if using a 9x13 pan. This cake is moist and delicious. If you want a tiny bit of frosting mix up the butter, powdered sugar, cinnamon and almond milk until desired consistency to drizzle over the cake. Invite some friends over and enjoy a nutritious pumpkin treat.
Recipe by Growing Weisser at https://www.growingweisser.com/pumpkin-cake-healthy-style-gluten-free