Easy Autumn Pumpkin Spice Cake

Submitted by hannahactually

"This is my favorite pumpkin cake recipe, courtesy of Kraft."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 510.29 g box yellow cake mix
• 99.22 g package vanilla flavor instant pudding and pie filling mix
• 236.59 ml pumpkin puree
• 118.29 ml oil
• 3 eggs
• 14.79 ml pumpkin pie spice
• philadelphia cream cheese frosting (or home-made cream cheese frosting)
• 118.29 ml chopped toasted Planters pecans

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F
2. Place cake mix, dry pudding mix, pumpkin, oil, 1/2 cup water, eggs and spice in large bowl. Beat with electric mixer on low speed just until moistened.
3. Beat on medium speed 4 minutes.
4. Pour into greased and floured 13x9-inch baking pan.
5. Bake 32 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
6. Cool cake in pan on wire rack.
7. Spread with PHILADELPHIA® Cream Cheese Frosting; sprinkle with pecans.
8. Store in refrigerator if not serving right away.

Reviews

[BethanyRenae]

I love love love this recipe. I use it all the time and people devour it. Every time I make it have people asking for the recipe. I used this as cupcakes at a wedding I did the cake for and got rave reviews. I use a cream cheese frosting and then add on top, an oatmeal cinnamon pecan butter granola type mixture I saute on the stove (of course let it cool first). It looks super autumny and adds some texture to the extremely moist cake.

 

[SweetSueAl]

This is a delicious cake. I did not use the vanilla pudding mix, the cake mix I bought said it had extra pudding in the mix. The cake was moist and flavorful. I thought maybe 1 tablespoon of pumpkin pie spice might be too much, but it was perfect. I also used a buttercream frosting as my DH does not care for cream cheese frosting. This is a keeper. Thanks hannahactually for posting. Sue

 

[baking addict]

I made this up one day as well and was sooo excited at the outcome, for about 2 months i was making it quite often and my husband and i kept gobbling it up. Great posting!! In the past i made with water instead of oil and egg whites, this made for an extremely moist cake! I've never tried with pudding mix and next time i will, thanks!