Recipe which sounds fake: "a can of just pumpkin (NOT pumpkin pie filling) + a box of just spice cake mix (NOT adding the normal cake mix additions like eggs or oils or so on). Greased + parchment papered loaf pan, 350°F for 45 minutes."
Actual result: yup, that's a cakebread in the same genre as stuff like bananabread!
The texture on the top looks pretty wild but the inside is soft and moist crumbly-dense. It has a distinct pumpkin spice flavor without getting overpowering; it's sweet but definitely on the milder end of sweet for a cakebread. (Disclaimer that I'm accustomed to USAmerican cakebreads which aim for a sweetness level around "getting two-by-four'd by sugar". Maybe the rest of the world is more reasonable.) The comment I heard was "hmm it needs a little something" so I dabbed some butter on top and that really sold it.
Also the parchment paper sling worked REALLY well, effortlessly lifted out of the pan. If you don't have parchment paper it's probably optional, I think the greasing works just fine? But as ease and convenience goes that's hard to beat.
This recipe was inadvertently recommended to me by a friend: they made it for their own eats and posted their reaction in a group chat merely in the spirit of talking about what they were eating. They didn't quite like it, but they spelled out why in such detail that I went "👀 All the thing you dislike here are EXACTLY what I am into. Recipe pls"