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Pumpkin Chocolate Crumb Cake

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Pumpkin Chocolate Crumb Cake
 
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A spicy pumpkin cake with a rich chocolate crumble layered in the middle and sprinkled generously over the top.
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Serves: 8 large slices

Ingredients
  • Crumble:
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • ½ cup all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • ¼ cup chopped, dark chocolate
  • ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
  • 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into cubes
  • Batter:
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons pumpkin spice
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • ⅛ to ¼ teaspoon cayenne
  • ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
  • 10 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
  • 1¾ cup sugar
  • 1 cup pumpkin puree
  • 2 eggs
  • ¼ cup milk
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Spray a 9-inch round springform pan with cooking spray and line the bottom with a circle of parchment paper.
  2. Make the crumble by whisking the sugar, flour, cocoa, chopped chocolate, and salt together in a bowl. Work the cubed butter into the cocoa mixture, using either your fingers or a pastry blender, until the mixture is moist but crumbly–like wet sand. Set aside.
  3. To make the batter, whisk the flour, baking powder, pumpkin spice, cinnamon, cayenne, and kosher salt together in a large mixing bowl. In another bowl whisk the whisk the butter, sugar, and pumpkin together. Beat in the eggs, one at a time until well mixed. Mix in the milk and vanilla extract. Pour the pumpkin mixture into the flour mixture and fold until combined–just until no streaks of flour remain. Spread half of the batter into the bottom of the prepared pan, sprinkle about half of the crumble over the batter. Carefully spread the remaining batter over the top of the previous layers and sprinkle the rest of the crumble over the surface. Bake in the center of the oven for 50 to 60 minutes.
Notes
Adapted from my Hazelnut Crunch Pumpkin Cake and a Martha Stewart recipe.

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  3. Kathryn @ The Scratch Artist

    YESSS! This is reminding me so much of the Entennmanns crumb cake…only better with chocolate and pumpkin! Sorry that it took so many test recipes, but I’m glad you finally got it perfected. This pumpkin party is amazing! Sara is the best for organizing this.

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  4. Rachel

    Oh my god, stop it. This looks so good! It’s making me want to push my morning smoothie aside and just go all in with a slice of cake + coffee 🙂

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  7. Grace

    THIS is everything I want in a pumpkin cake! So gorgeous and delicious looking! I’m gonna have to join snap chat just so I can follow along behind the scenes! Happy pumpkin party day!

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  13. Nicole

    I’m so glad your cake turned out! I was really pulling for you! I wanted to participate in the party, but life has just been BANANAS lately. I’ll just admire all the baked goods, especially this gorg cake!

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  14. Courtney | Fork to Belly

    Glorious, glorious cake! It looks totally moist and dense and the kind of cake that coats your mouth with love. Hehe 😀 Also, I am thoroughly impressed you caught this all on snapchat because I have tried and I don’t have enough brain capacity to do both!!

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  19. Claudia | The Brick Kitchen

    That chocolate crumb is genius!! And you know a cake is going to be good when a blogger has spent so long perfecting it, getting the proportions and ingredients just right – so glad it is here now though because I need it in my life! Just gorgeous.

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  24. Brooke @ Chocolate + Marrow

    So I am pretty much in love with the idea of a pumpkin chocolate crumb cake. And I’m starting to think we need to coordinate for things like this so we can taste each others stuff…maybe next link up we swap extras?! (Please say yes, please say yes, please say yes…) 😉

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