Pumpkin Spice Cake

This moist pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting is a simple but delicious cake, perfect for fall and pumpkin season.

Jump to:

• 👩🏻‍🍳 Pumpkin Spice Cake Backstory
• 🥘 Ingredients Needed
• 🔪 Instructions
• 👪 FAQs
• 📖 Variations
• 🍫 Suggested Serving Companions
• 🍶 More Dessert Recipes
• 📋 Recipe Card
• 💬 Reviews and Comments

👩🏻‍🍳 Pumpkin Spice Cake Backstory

I tend to spend a few select months every year consuming pumpkin spice everything, and so, naturally, I had to try to make a cake with pumpkin spice eventually.

Cake ingredients are combined with canned pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice to make what I now deem to be one of my favorite cakes ever. The cake is topped with a delicious cream cheese frosting, which is undoubtedly the best type of frosting!

If you're looking for more autumnal cake recipes, you should check out Crock Pot Pumpkin Cake, Norwegian Apple Cake or Apple Butter Gingerbread Loaf with Apple Butter Cream Cheese Spread.

🥘 Ingredients Needed

• All purpose flour - White flour serves as the base of the cake.
• Baking powder and baking soda - These rising agents work together to ensure that the cake has the perfect rise.
• Pumpkin pie spice - This seasonal spice mix.
• Vegetable oil - Adding oil to cake makes it super moist!
• Eggs - The eggs binds the other ingredients together, and improve the texture of the cake.
• Sugar - Because cakes should be sweet.
• Pumpkin puree - I use canned pumpkin puree for the sake of convenience, but you can make your own if you prefer!
• Butter - Butter makes the BEST frosting. Use real butter, rather than alternative spreads for the best results.
• Cream cheese - Full fat cream cheese is an essential part of a cream cheese frosting (it's kinda in the name!).
• Powdered sugar - Gives the frosting the right texture and sweetness.

🔪 Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 °F / 180 °C, and cover a square baking pan with parchment paper.
2. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder in a bowl.
3. In a second bowl, combine the vegetable oil, eggs, sugar and pumpkin puree. Whisk until the ingredients are just combined.
4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry, and use a whisk or spatula to gently blend the ingredients together.
5. Pour the cake batter into the baking pan, and transfer it to an oven. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
6. Allow the cake to rest for 10-15 minutes, then transfer it to a cooling rack and allow it to cool down completely.
7. Make the frosting by combining slightly softened butter with cream cheese and powdered sugar. I recommend using an electric whisk to make the frosting completely smooth.
8. Spread the frosting across the cake, and cut it into 20 small squares. Store the cake in a refrigerator until it's ready to serve.

👪 FAQs

📖 Variations

• Add extra add-ins such as chocolate chips or raisins to the cake batter before you cook the cake if you want. They add that little something extra to the pumpkin dessert!
• You can add a few drops of a flavor essence of your choice to the frosting to give it a little flavor, or use a different frosting if you wish. Caramel, toffee, chocolate or coffee frosting would suit this cake particularly well.
• If you don't have any pumpkin pie spice, you can use cinnamon or gingerbread spice instead.
• Want to decorate the cakes? Scatter small pieces of Oven Dried Blueberries or Microwave Pumpkin Fudge for an impressive look and fantastic flavor.

🍫 Suggested Serving Companions

What do you serve with this cake? More cake! Hot chocolate! This dish makes for an excellent dessert, but I like to serve a slice or two with a cup of coffee as a late night treat.

I also like to serve it with a small jug of Chocolate Sauce on the side. This simple sauce is perfect to serve over the cake if you have a sweet tooth.