This Easy Pumpkin Spice Cake Recipe will be your new fall recipe favorite. A beautiful way to embrace the fall flavors!
Hello Friends! We are fully into pumpkin season and today's pumpkin recipe is easy and delicious!
Why You Will Love This Recipe
This Pumpkin Spice cake is made with a boxed cake mix and just a few ingredients, making it super simple to make.
It has a nice pumpkin flavor and the spices make it a wonderful dessert that is perfect for any fall celebration.
If you bake it in a sheet cake pan, you can have a lot of servings of this tasty pumpkin cake.
This pumpkin spice cake recipe is very flexible. I prefer to bake it in a sheet pan and slice it in squares for smaller servings, but it can be made into a layer cake too.
I also like to give it just a dollop of cinnamon spiced frosting, rather than entirely frosting the dessert, because I like the frosting to complement the flavors of the cake without overpowering it.
Then, I top it with some chopped pecans, but you can dress it up for Halloween with candy corn too!
It is truly a wonderful dessert that I have adapted from a classic recipe.
Ingredients for Pumpkin Spice Cake
- cake mix
- pumpkin
- eggs
- butter
- vanllla
- pumpkin spice
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More Pumpkin Dessert Recipes
For more great pumpkin recipes, check out:
- Pumpkin Mug Cake - so simple and a quick dessert for one or two people.
- Pumpkin Twists - Another quick dessert or brunch recipe.
- Pumpkin Lasagna Dessert- A beautiful creamy layered dessert.
- Pumpkin Snickerdoodles - A pumpkin version of a favorite cookie!
Easy Pumpkin Spice Cake Recipe

Easy Pumpkin Spice Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 box yellow cake mix
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup water
- ¼ cup melted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin spice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Grease and flour 13" x 9" baking pan.
- MIx ingredients together in a bowl for 2-3 minutes.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake 30 - 35 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool and frost with frosting recipe below.
Nutrition
Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe & Topping
¼ cup butter, softened
1 8 oz block of cream cheese
2 ½ cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ cup chopped pecans (optional, for topping)
Blend cream cheese, butter, vanilla and cinnamon in a bowl until light and fluffy. Top each square with a dollop. Sprinkle with chopped pecans.
It is a nice cake with the flavors of pumpkin pie!
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What's your favorite fall dessert?
Tamara
Cassidy makes a cake just like this! He calls it Pumpkin Surprise and it's totally heavenly. YUM.
Chas
I love all things pumpkin, thanks for sharing.
Raquel
We do too! Thanks for stopping by!