Pumpkin Olive Oil Cake

5 from 11 votes

This Pumpkin Olive Oil Cake is a moist almond flour pumpkin cake that is made with olive oil and pumpkin spice.

Prep Time15

Cook Time25

Total Time40

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: people

1 cup almond flour
2 Tablespoons coconut flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice (or 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg, 1/4 tsp ground cloves, 1/4 tsp ground ginger, 1/4 tsp ground all spice)
1/4 cup olive oil
2 large eggs
1/2 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup pumpkin puree
1 tsp vanilla extract

4 ounces cream cheese softened to room temperature (dairy-free cream cheese can also be used)
1 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon lemon juice

Grease a 9 inch round pan, and line with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large bowl, whisk the almond flour, coconut flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice together. Set aside.
In another bowl, whisk the olive oil, eggs, brown sugar, pumpkin puree, and vanilla extract together until combined
Pour the dry ingredients into the bowl of wet ingredients and mix until completely combined. Let the batter sit for a few minutes.
Pour the batter into the round pan and bake for 25 minutes. The cake should be golden and a toothpick should come out clean.
While the cake cools, make the cream cheese frosting. Add the cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla and lemon juice to a food processor and mix until smooth.
Once the cake has cooled, frost with the cream cheese frosting and serve.

Let the batter of this cake sit: let the batter sit for a few minutes so that the coconut flour can absorb the way that it needs to.
To make a double layer cake: double the recipe!
To keep the cake from sticking to the pan: grease it with olive oil and then line it with parchment paper.
To make the cake dairy-free: you can easily use dairy-free cream cheese to make a dairy-free frosting. The rest of the pumpkin cake is naturally dairy-free.