pumpkin chocolate loaf with olive oil glaze - Cook with Gem

Ingredients

• 180g (1 and a half cups) plain flour (all purpose)
• 1 and a half level teaspoons baking powder
• half a level teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
• 1 level tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• half a teaspoon fine grain sea salt
• 265g (1 and a third cups) granulated sugar
• 1 x 425g (15 ounce) can of pure pumpkin puree
• 215g (1 cup) rapeseed or olive oil (in the US rapeseed is sold as canola)
• 3 large eggs
• 200g (7 ounces) dark chocolate – around 70% cocoa
• 3 tablespoons raw pumpkin seeds
• 150g (1 and a quarter cups) icing sugar (confectioners’ sugar)
• 2 tablespoons hot water
• 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 2 tablespoons cacao nibs or 2 tablespoons roughly chopped dark chocolate