Pumpkin Cake
Updated October 08, 2021
I hope everyone is getting out to vote today!! Luckily, Utah has early voting so we voted a couple weeks ago, but we will be following the results today. What an exciting time!!
Now, onto another recipe from our early Thanksgiving feast. I am not a big fan of pumpkin pie…gasp! I know, terrible, huh? I know it is a tradition, but we didn’t have it this time around. I did make a pumpkin cake though so the pumpkin was still represented.
The cake was fantastic!! Easy to whip up and even better once I slathered cream cheese frosting on the top! If you aren’t a fan of pumpkin pie, try this at your holiday meal. I am pretty sure the pie won’t be missed.
PUMPKIN CAKE
4 eggs
1 2/3 cups granulated sugar
1 cup oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
One 15 ounce can pumpkin
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
Cream Cheese Frosting
One package of cream cheese (I used reduced fat)
½ cup (1 stick) butter softened
2-3 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Using an electric mixer at medium speed, combine the eggs, sugar, oil, vanilla, and pumpkin until light and fluffy. Stir together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and baking soda. Add the dry ingredients to the pumpkin mixture and mix at low speed until thoroughly combined and the batter is smooth.
3. Spread the batter in a greased 9 by 13 inch baking pan. Bake for 30 minutes. Let cool completely before frosting.
4. To make the icing: Combine the cream cheese and butter in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Add the sugar and mix at low speed until smooth. Add the sugar and mix at low speed until combined. Stir in the vanilla and mix again. Spread on cooled pumpkin cake.
Also, a big thank you to Kristen of Black Lab Baker for giving us the I love you THIS much award. Thank you!!! We love you too:) We are passing the award onto Colleen of Cooking This and That. We love your blog!
It looks heavenly. I made the same EXACT frosting the other day. It was delicious.
Yeah! More Pumpkin. That icing looks delicious!
Congrats on the award!
Wow, I am so honored by the award! Thank you so so much – off to write the blog post about it!
I love pumpkin cake too – great post 🙂
That looks amazing! I love pumpkin cake…your icing looks fabulous as well!
Isn’t the frosting and pumpkin such a great combo?! I seriously at this kind of stuff with my breakfast the other week and really would love a piece with my coffee now!
No pumpkin pie for you?!?!?! Ah well – you made up for it with a GORGEOUS pumpkin cake 😉
This sounds great! I love pumpkin and in a cake would be wonderful!
Your cake looks moist and tasty! I love anything with pumpkin in it. Thanks for stoping by to look at my rugelach!
Looks great!
What a great cake, Maria. This really looks amazing.
Yum. I just recently made pumpkin cupcakes–SO yummy! Can’t wait to see your rugelach
oh thankfully there is someone else out there that doesn’t like pumpkin pie. sadly, I don’t care for it, but I do like making other creative things with the puree, just like you.
I recently made my first pumpkin cake and Loved it. Your frosting sounds amazing.
This cake could easily replace my beloved pumpkin pie. It looks so moist and my mouth is watering just looking at the frosting. Ok, now I am hungry…
A gorgeous cake! Light and delightful!
Happy Election Day!
Cheers,
Rosa
I agree, I have never been a fan of Pumpkin Pie….BLAHHHH. This cake however looks delicious!
Now, your cake really looks delicious!
Maria your pumpkin cake with the cream cheese frosting just looks so delish!!!
Maria
x
I love pumpkin cake, well pumpkin anything. This looks tasty!
You know, pumpkin pie is pretty much the only way that I DON’T like pumpkin! This cake sounds fabulous — I bet the oil makes it nice and moist. The frosting must be amazing!
This would be perfect to bring for thanksgiving dinner! Thanks for the idea!
Your cake looks so moist and tasty!
Love the pumpkin cake, congratulations on your award! You’ve been making some awesome food 🙂 Yay- I voted early in Utah too- nice to not have to go out in the storm this morning.
xo
That looks just divine 🙂 Any leftover to send me a piece? hehe, CONGRATS!!!
This looks heavenly! Witthe pumpkin crisp I make and this one, who needs pumpkin pie. I will ahev to try this.
Can I just say that I love a good moist cake and this looks great!
-DTW
http://www.everydaycookin.blogspot.com
What a wonderful cake ! The texture looks so moist and delicious. 🙂
Hey there. To answer your question, I did see the movie and loved it. Need to watch it again though. And I looked up that cafe because I figured you meant something by it & didn't recall the movie was filmed there. So cool!!!!!
I am so in love with that cake. I need to make that cake. Yum!
Congrats on your award! I love you too! 🙂
I don’t like pumpkin pie either! But I do love pumpkin other things…this cake for one looks great.
What a great blog! And I LOVE pumpkin cake! Actually, I love anything pumpkin 🙂
Congrats on the award, on expressing your voice in voting, and on the sweet looking pumpkin cake. Look at that, we’re pumpkin buds this week 🙂
That pumpkin cake looks nice and moist and good. I like the cream cheese frosting!
Yeah, I’m more of a cake person than I pie person– and definitely a cream cheese person! 😉
Congrats on your award!
Your cake looks yummy, simple, and delish 🙂 I love the color of pumpkin desserts.
I have all the ingredients to this! YEAH!!! 🙂
I am not much of a pumpkin pie girl either, give me apple any day. I like pumpkin in muffins and loaves though, yours looks so very moist and tasty. Cream cheese frosting is my favourite frosting.
I’ve never had pumpkin cake but yours looks delicious!
Pie is my favourite pumpkin dessert (subject to change, of course).
I just heard the Obama is in. Even thousands of miles away, everyone here seems so excited.
Congrats on your award – I love you too. And I really appreciate your kind words on my blog.
mmm… looks delicious… i hope your new president will be a lot better… 🙂
Yum, that cake looks fantastic! I was in need of a dessert idea for this weekend and I think this might be it!
helloooo cream cheese frosting! it makes pretty much any cake devourable. is that a word? it should be. 🙂
I love pumpkin pie, but this pumpkin cake looks fantastic as well!! Especially with that icing…
I’m not a pumpkin pie lover either! Your cake sounds much better!
this pumpkin cake looks delicous and moist. pumpkin cake is soo good.
I heart anything with cream cheese frosting.
Oh what a lovely pumpkin cake it does look SO delicious!
osie x
Maria, I just wanted to let you know that I mentioned your blog and this recipe on my blog today.
Is that 1 2/3 cup sugar or 2/3 cup sugar?
It is 1 and 2/3! Lots of sugar:)
Made this cake tonight and it was so good! No frosting needed because it is sweet enough.
So moist I made cake pops out of half of it and I didn’t even need to add frosting to the dough! Keeper!!!
Glad you liked the pumpkin cake. It is perfect for fall!
Made these as cupcakes, they were the hit of my party. I’ve been told I have to make more for another party i’m going to this week. great recipe thanks.
As an Innkeper I only serve my guest what I consider the best of the best and I found that in this coffee cake.. Moist ! Not overly sweet tasting for the amount of sugar and just the perfect amount of spices….I wouldn’t Chang a thing. I you like pumpkin bread, look no further, Debbie, Innnkeeper of 18 years.
Now I just need to find a gluten free version that tastes this good…..
All you need to do is use cup 4 cup gluten free flour in place of regular flour. Works great every time.
Not sure what I did the first time—-but so glad I tried it again, and again and again. I get absolute raves over this cake and am making one for a friend’s Thanksgiving. It was a smash at our office “Harvest luncheon”. The cake is moist and flavorful and the cream cheese icing is light and incredible. I will make this again and again and again.
Glad the cake was a hit!
This was very delicious! It seems to taste even better the next day! I added an extra egg since my hens lay medium eggs!
Perfectly delicious!!!
This recipe is great I will try it soon – thank you
This was delicious and moist! I will make it again! I used 5 ounces of cream cheese in the frosting instead of what was called for and it was just right for us! Thinking a little healthier too !! I put a few pieces in the freezer to have on hand for “surprise visitors”!
2-3 cups conf. Sugar ? Are you saying 2 to 3 cups… ??? My choice?
1700 calories per slice????
Is the pumpkin cake actually 1710 calories a slice?
Prefer recipe with less oil and sugar