Easy Pumpkin Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Generously grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
• In a large bowl, mix together the spice cake mix and canned pumpkin until well blended. Spread evenly into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool and serve, or store in the refrigerator. This tastes even better the next day.

Steps:

• In a microwave bowl put your crisco first then butter.
• Microwave until melted.
• Make sure you melt butter and crisco together.
• Set aside until cool.
• In a medium bowl put your cake mix,pumpkin pie mix, sugar, eggs,cinnamon, nutmeg and spice cake or allspice and crisco-butter mixture.
• Blend on medium speed for about 2 minutes.
• Add your whipping cream.
• Mix until smooth.
• Now you can add chopped walnuts to it if you like.
• But my family likes it without the nuts but want the nuts on top of the icing.
• Place in a 13x9 cake pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees until cake is done.
• In my oven it took 45 minutes.
• Ovens vary so check cake for doneness.
• Let cool.
• Ice and refrigerate.
• Icing: In a bowl whip your butter first.
• Next add cream cheese and whip.
• Next add your vanilla.
• Then a cup of powdered sugar.
• Mix well, next add one tablespoon of the whipping cream.
• Mix thoroughly, Next add another cup of powdered sugar.
• Mix thoroughly add the other tablespoon of whipping cream.
• Mix and then add the 1/4 cup powdered sugar and Mix thoroughly until smooth.
• Spread on the cool cake.
• Add chopped walnuts on top.
• Refrigerate.
• I like mine refrigerated because it taste so good that way.

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, beat pumpkin, 2 cups white sugar, and oil. Add eggs, and mix well.
• In another bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Add these dry ingredients to the pumpkin mixture, and beat until well blended. Pour batter into a greased 15 x 10 inch baking pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 25 to 30 minutes, or until cake tests done. Cool.
• In a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter or margarine, and vanilla until smooth. Gradually add 1 3/4 cups confectioners' sugar, and mix well. Add milk until frosting reaches desired spreading consistency. Frost cake, and sprinkle with nuts.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line a 30 x 20cm baking or small roasting tin with baking parchment. Put the flour, sugar, spice, bicarbonate of soda, sultanas and salt into a large bowl and stir to combine. Beat the eggs into the melted butter, stir in the orange zest and juice, then mix with the dry ingredients till combined. Stir in the pumpkin. Pour the batter into the tin and bake for 30 mins, or until golden and springy to the touch.
• To make the frosting, beat together the cheese, butter, icing sugar, orange zest and 1 tsp of the juice till smooth and creamy, then set aside in the fridge. When the cake is done, cool for 5 mins then turn it onto a cooling rack. Prick it all over with a skewer and drizzle with the rest of the orange juice while still warm. Leave to cool completely.
• If you like, trim the edges of the cake. Give the frosting a quick beat to loosen, then, using a palette knife, spread over the top of the cake in peaks and swirls. If you're making the cake ahead, keep it in the fridge then take out as many pieces as you want 30 mins or so before serving. Will keep, covered, for up to 3 days in the fridge.

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients and beat about 2 minutes.
• Turn into a greased and floured 9 X 13 pan.
• Bake in 350 degree oven about 40 minutes.
• Frost with a cream cheese icing.