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[ciao_bella]

Fall weather is coming soon and the smell of pumpkin cake baking in the oven is hard to ignore.  Here is a Super Easy recipe using only a few ingredients to make, then topped with your favorite cream cheese frosting. 

SUPER EASY Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients: 

• cooking spray

• 1 (15.25 ounce) package Spice cake mix  (if you can’t find Spice Cake mix use Carrot Cake Mix but do NOT use yellow or white because it will not be the same in taste) 

• 1 (15 ounce) can 100%pure pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix) 

• 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice, or more if you like a bit more spice

• 2 eggs, slightly beaten 

• (optional add-ins 1/2Cup walnuts, or 1/2C white chips, or 1/2C raisins) 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Spray a 9x9 inch or 11x9 inch pan with cooking spray. (A 9x13 inch pan is not recommended as it’s too large)

Mix the SPICE cake mix with the entire 15 ounce can of pure pumpkin.  Add in the 2 slightly beaten eggs, and the 1 tsp of pumpkin pie spice. Make sure the ingredients are completely incorporated and mixed until you get a smooth, but THICK batter.

Pour into the greased 9x9 inch pan.  Bake for about 30-45  minutes or, until cake tester in the center comes out clean. 

TOP cooled cake with your favorite Cream Cheese Frosting or purchase a can of cream cheese frosting, if you’re in a hurry and don’t have time to make your own frosting.  

*if you want your frosted cake a little fancier, add to the top of the frosted cake some chopped walnuts, or a sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice or cinnamon, white or chocolate chips or even those cute orange candy pumpkins.  

[Kachina624]

@ciao_bella.  It sound quick, easy and good but the pan size sounds small. Have you made it?

Thanks for posting.

[deepwaterdotter]

I make a former co-worker's recipe for a pumpkin cake in a Bundt pan.  I like to spoon some of my mom's recipe for vanilla sauce on top:

1 15-oz can pumpkin puree

1 3/4 cups sugar

3/4 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup brown sugar

3 eggs

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp ground cloves

2 1/2 cups flour

In big bowl, whisk pumpkin, white and brown sugars, oil, eggs, baking powder and soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and cloves.  Gently stir in flour.  

Pour into greased and floured Bundt pan.  Bake in 350 degree oven for 1 hour.  

Let cool for 10 minutes before turning out on serving platter.

Vanilla Sauce:

6 tbsp butter

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup heavy cream

1/2 tsp vanilla

1/4 tsp cinnamon

Stir butter, sugar, and cream in small saucepan.  Bring to low simmer and stir for 5 minutes.  Take off stove and whisk in vanilla and cinnamon.

[ciao_bella]

@Kachina624  I found that a 9x13 inch pan is barely enough to cover the bottom with the batter. You could use the 9x13 inch but the cake will be thinner, more like the size of bars, and that's fine too. 

The smaller size either 9x9 or 11x9 inch makes the cake rise nicely/higher well above the pan.  I wouldn't use an 8x8 inch as that would, I think, be a little too small for the batter.  

[haddon9]

@ciao_bella This sounds delicous and so easy to make!  I like easy.

I'm going to save this recipe and make it sometime soon. Thanks!

ETA:  I just found a low carb pumpkin spice cake mix on Amazon (I'm trying to stay low carb right now but this sounds wonderful!) and I ordered it.  Now I just need a can of pumpkin puree and maybe make my own cream cheese frosting!

[rockygems123]

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@haddon9 wrote:

@ciao_bella This sounds delicous and so easy to make!  I like easy.

I'm going to save this recipe and make it sometime soon. Thanks!

ETA:  I just found a low carb pumpkin spice cake mix on Amazon (I'm trying to stay low carb right now but this sounds wonderful!) and I ordered it.  Now I just need a can of pumpkin puree and maybe make my own cream cheese frosting!

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@haddon9 

Love the idea of low carb cake mix, do you remember the brand?

[tiny 2]

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@deepwaterdotter wrote:

I make a former co-worker's recipe for a pumpkin cake in a Bundt pan.  I like to spoon some of my mom's recipe for vanilla sauce on top:

1 15-oz can pumpkin puree

1 3/4 cups sugar

3/4 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup brown sugar

3 eggs

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp ground cloves

2 1/2 cups flour

In big bowl, whisk pumpkin, white and brown sugars, oil, eggs, baking powder and soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and cloves.  Gently stir in flour.  

Pour into greased and floured Bundt pan.  Bake in 350 degree oven for 1 hour.  

Let cool for 10 minutes before turning out on serving platter.

Vanilla Sauce:

6 tbsp butter

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup heavy cream

1/2 tsp vanilla

1/4 tsp cinnamon

Stir butter, sugar, and cream in small saucepan.  Bring to low simmer and stir for 5 minutes.  Take off stove and whisk in vanilla and cinnamon.

@deepwaterdotter, I  prefer a nice dessert sauce so much more than frosting.

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[haddon9]

@rockygems123 I got it on Amazon and it should be coming tomorrow.  It's a bit pricey but worth a try if it keeps my sugar count down.

Lakanto Sugar Free Pumpkin Spice Muffin and Bread Mix.

They also make Monk Fruit sweetener that I use for many things.  If I make my own cream cheese frosting, I'll proably use monk fruit to sweeten it but there are other natural sweeteners out there as well.

[ciao_bella]

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@haddon9 wrote:

@ciao_bella This sounds delicous and so easy to make!  I like easy.

I'm going to save this recipe and make it sometime soon. Thanks!

ETA:  I just found a low carb pumpkin spice cake mix on Amazon (I'm trying to stay low carb right now but this sounds wonderful!) and I ordered it.  Now I just need a can of pumpkin puree and maybe make my own cream cheese frosting!

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@haddon9   I've never used a low carb cake mix, so I'm not sure if the results will be the same, especially if it lacks flour.  Honestly, I think I would try the cake mix you bought just using their instructions to see if you like it.  If it's good and you like the taste and texture of the low carb cake mix, then I would order another mix for sometime later on and you could try it using the recipe I posted.   I would hate to see you disappointed, if it didn't turn out well.  

[haddon9]

@ciao_bella It's no biggie if I'm disappointed.  It's worth a try to me.  The main difference I think is the sweetener and flour being almond flour vs. regular flour.

These are the ingredients:  Non-GMO Lakanto Monkfruit Sweetener (Erythritol, Monk Fruit Extract), Almond Flour, Oat Fiber, Tapioca Fiber, Fava Bean Protein, Cellulose, Psyllium, Spices, Pumpkin, Sea Dalt, Annatto Extract (color), Baking Powder, Baking Soda. *Contains: Tree Nuts (Almonds).

I'm giving it a try next week.  I plan on going to the supermarket and picking up the pumpkin puree.  I'll let you know how it turns out.