pumpkin chocolate chip snack cake
a cure for the Monday blues, this pumpkin chocolate chip snack cake is made in one pan and easy enough for busy weekdays
Seriously, how is it that weekends simply disappear? In all honesty, the weeks tend to pass pretty quickly these days as well, but weekends. Forget it. We go from Friday football to Sunday supper in the blink of an eye.
We had the usual Friday football game, but then had two days with absolutely nothing on the schedule. That does not happen very often. The weather was cooler, we even got rain which was delightful. SO, to ruin things we decided to go house hunting.
In our area of California, that is anything but fun. We have an offer in on a house we absolutely love, but it never hurts to have backup ideas. Things come and go pretty fast around here. Depressing is the only word I can give to describe our hunt. Most of what we love is far too expensive. The rest are dumps. Fingers crossed something works out soon.
In the meantime, I will be shoveling pumpkin chocolate chip snack cake into my mouth to keep myself from going insane waiting for the Realtor to call with good news I hope.
This cake could not be any easier to make; you mix and bake it all in one pan. It is delicious on it’s own, but crazy good covered in chocolate sauce. Or, you could take it one step further and add a scoop of vanilla ice cream with the chocolate sauce. Nuts and whipped cream… Why not, it’s Monday after all, and we all could use some cheering up on a Monday.
pumpkin chocolate chip snack cake
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2/3 cup pumpkin puree, not pumpkin pie filling
- 6 Tbsp butter, melted
- 1/3 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
Directions:
- preheat oven to 350 degrees
- in an 8 x 8 square baking pan, combine the flour. sugar, baking soda, and salt
- stir in pumpkin, butter, and buttermilk
- make sure to get into the corners, and stir just until everything is combined
- scatter chocolate chips over the top
- bake 30 minutes
- cool in pan
- serve plain or covered in chocolate sauce with chopped nuts
When the cake came out of the oven, I spread the melted chocolate chips across the top to form a frosting, but you could certainly leave them alone. I just love a little bit of chocolate with every pumpkin bite.
Cake doesn’t have to be a weekend only affair. This pumpkin chocolate chip snack cake is easy enough for a grey and drizzly Monday afternoon.
enjoy!
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This snack cake looks awesome- especially loving the moisture from the buttermilk ๐
it really as one of the moistest cakes I have made. SO good. thanks
This snack cake looks delicious! I love the pumpkin/chocolate chip combo!ย
pumpkin and chocolate are SO good together! thanks Cynthia
I like any recipe that has snack and cake in the name! ha!
Looks so good
me too ๐ thanks Nicole. cannot wait to eat the ham and cheese sliders I am making from your site tonight@!!
Your photography is so beautiful! Love this! ๐
thank you so much Maria
I hope something works out soon for you with the house! Meanwhile, these would share cheer me up! Yum.
cake always does the trick.
I hope things go through for you with the house you have an offer on! Love the chocolate chips in this pumpkin cake!
did not go well ๐ but we made another offer this afternoon. fingers crossed
I need this cake!! Feeling you on the difficulty of finding a place to live in CA! We just finished an apartment search in San Diego — phew.
that is my dream destination to live, but yes finding a place is no fun at all. your apartment looks really cuye
This looks so delicious, and I love the short list of ingredients! I want to make it this weekend!
thanks Andi! we loved it
Oh house hunting can be a bummer. Best of luck with that – this cake looks perfect to combat the Monday blues.
I don’t want to jinx things, but I think our search is over , thank goodness. thanks so much
Do you have to use buttermilk?
no, you could use regular milk, but I might suggest adding a small amount of greek yogurt to the milk. I love the moisture it adds to the cake. and it does add just a bit to the rise of the cake.
This snack cake makes me want to weep with sweet snackitude (that’s gratitude + snack). Gorgeous and appetizing and so cozy.
great word ๐ and thanks
Hi Heather,
your pumpkin chocolate chip snack cake looks AMAZING! Thanks for sharing the recipe online.
thank you