Chocolate Pumpkin Swirl Bundt Cake

What’s better than pumpkin this time of year? Pumpkin plus chocolate, of course. I love chocolate chips in my pumpkin cookies, in breads. and even or maybe especially, in pancakes. Pumpkin and ganache? Even better. The Zoë Francois pumpkin Bundt cake has been on my list basically since the Zoë Bakes Cakes book was published in 2021. The version in the cookbook is called Pumpkin-Mocha Swirl Bundt Cake and calls for a little cocoa powder and espresso. A quick search pulls up what was the original version from Zoë – the Chocolate Pumpkin Swirl Bundt Cake – that foregoes espresso and focuses on the chocolate. The recipes are almost the same, yet the spices differ slightly. Naturally I agonized over which one to follow but finally decided on the chocolate version. However, because ganache is always a good idea, I added ganache.