Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This moist and flavorful pumpkin cake is frosted with a cinnamon-spiced cream cheese frosting. This cake is packed with delicious flavors of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
Servings: 12 servings
Calories: 520kcal
Ingredients
Pumpkin Cake
- 15 ounces pumpkin puree not pumpkin pie mix
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 4 eggs room temperature
- 2 cups all-purpose flour spooned & leveled
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ¾ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 ½ cups confectioners sugar
Instructions
Pumpkin Cake
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
- Grease or line a 9x13 baking pan with parchment paper and set aside.
- Combine the all purpose flour, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a large bowl. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix together the granulated sugar and brown sugar with the vegetable oil.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time.
- Stir in the canned pumpkin.
- Slowly stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until incorporated.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool completely before frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- Beat the softened cream cheese frosting on until smooth and creamy.
- Beat the butter into the cream cheese and smooth.
- Add in the cinnamon and the vanilla extract.
- Beat the confectioners sugar into the mixture and beat until smooth.
- Spread evenly over the cooled pumpkin cake.
- Store in the refrigerator for 3-5 days.
Notes
Use 100% Pure Pumpkin and not pumpkin pie mix.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 520kcal | Carbohydrates: 65g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 34g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 11g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 94mg | Sodium: 445mg | Potassium: 172mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 31g | Vitamin A: 6086IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 101mg | Iron: 2mg
