Instead of being called pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting, this recipe was originally slated to be called a pumpkin sheet cake.
I suppose it’s still technically a sheet cake. It was baked in a sheet pan, after all. It just turned out a little fluffier and taller than your classic sheet cake, but since it’s so YUMMY, I decided to leave the recipe just the way it is and share it with y’all anyway.
Call it a pumpkin spice cake, call it a chubby sheet cake, call it whatever you want. Just don’t you dare miss this incredible pumpkin spice cake recipe!
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Pumpkin Spice Cake Recipe
This pumpkin cake is loaded with pumpkin spice flavor, which pairs really nicely with the its sweet cream cheese frosting.
I also love this recipe because it results in such a supremely moist and tender cake. The texture is heavenly!
I tend to make a lot of desserts with cream cheese frosting because it’s such a favorite with my family.
In fact, whenever my dad is given a dessert to try that doesn’t have cream cheese frosting, we can anticipate him saying, “This would also be good with cream cheese frosting.”
Thanks, Dad. Your love for the cream cheese frosting has been duly noted! :) I always keep Dad and his epic sweet tooth in mind when I’m baking, and I’m sure to take him a piece or two to enjoy.
Are there any members of your family who adore cream cheese frosting as much as my dad?
I always encounter a few pumpkin-naysayers (booooo!) this time of year who scoff at the abundance of pumpkin-spice-flavored everything.
I have to confess that I wave my pumpkin spice flag proudly during the fall. I just can’t get enough pumpkin desserts. Am I alone? What’s your favorite pumpkin dessert recipe?
Don’t Miss These Popular Pumpkin Desserts
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Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Brown Butter Frosting
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 15 oz. can pumpkin
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 4 eggs lightly beaten
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
Frosting
- ½ cup butter
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- ¼ cup milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- Cake
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 12 x 17 inch jelly roll pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and the salt; set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, beat together the pumpkin, sugar, and the oil. Add the eggs and mix well.
- Add dry ingredients to the pumpkin mixture and beat until well blended.
- Pour into the prepared pan. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Cool completely
- Frosting
- Mix together the milk and the vanilla and set aside.
- Add the powdered sugar to a mixing bowl and set aside.
- Over medium heat melt the butter stirring constantly. When the butter becomes very frothy and turns brown remove from the heat.
- Add the milk and the vanilla mixture to the powdered sugar. Add the browned butter. Mix with an electric mixer until well combined. Immediately spread on the cooled cake.
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I have made this cake 3 times already this season. It is wonderfully mosit and so delicious!. It is a keeper!!!
Karen, so glad you love it! My mom just made it for her Sunday School class last week and it reminded me how amazing this recipe is as well!! :)
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I absolutely love any pumpkin recipes because I was born on Thanksgiving Day and I love having pumpkin cake and pumpkin pie for my Thanksgiving dinner each year !