It’s a marriage between a yellow cake and a pumpkin.
And it’s a lovely, beautiful thing, my friends.
To think it all started when a box of cake mix met a can of pumpkin…
Pumpkin Cake
Ingredients
Pumpkin Cake
- 1 box Yellow Cake Mix
- 1/4 cup Sugar
- 1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
- 1/4 cup Water
- 4 Eggs
- 1 can (15 oz) Pumpkin Puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
- 1 tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice
- 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
Homemade Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1/2 cup Butter softened
- 8 oz Cream Cheese softened
- 4 cups Powdered Sugar
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- Crushed Walnuts optional
Instructions
- Grease (2) loaf pans, (1) cake pan or (1) bundt pan. Preheat oven to 350°
- Mix together cake mix, sugar, oil, eggs, water and cinnamon using a hand mixer or stand mixer until the batter is smooth and not lumpy.
- Pour cake batter into prepared cake pan and bake.8"x4" loaf pan: 30 minutes10" bundt pan: 30-35 minutes9×13 cake pan: 25-30 minutes
- Allow to completely cool.
Homemade Frosting
- Cream butter and cream cheese using a stand mixer or hand mixer.
- Add in 2 tsp vanilla.
- Slowly add powdered sugar and continue to beat until frosting is smooth.
- Frost the top of the cooled cake with frosting.
- Sprinkle finished cake with crushed walnuts (optional)
