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Pumpkin Cake

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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

Method
 

  1. Grease (2) loaf pans, (1) cake pan or (1) bundt pan.
    Preheat oven to 350°
  2. 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.
  3. Pour cake batter into prepared cake pan and bake.
    8"x4" loaf pan: 30 minutes
    10" bundt pan: 30-35 minutes
    9x13 cake pan: 25-30 minutes
  4. Allow to completely cool.
Homemade Frosting
  1. Cream butter and cream cheese using a stand mixer or hand mixer.
  2. Add in 2 tsp vanilla.
  3. Slowly add powdered sugar and continue to beat until frosting is smooth.
  4. Frost the top of the cooled cake with frosting.
  5. Sprinkle finished cake with crushed walnuts (optional)