Easy Pumpkin Spice Cake w/ Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
“Made from scratch, moist, fluffy pumpkin spice cake recipe with cinnamon cream cheese frosting. Easy to make recipe and perfect for the holidays!”
I’ve been wanting a homemade pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting all week! My grandmother makes the best from-scratch pumpkin spice cakes and sells them around the holidays. She even uses her own fresh pumpkin puree. (Here’s the recipe for homemade pumpkin puree incase you want to give it a try )
However since Grandma Barb is 2 1/2 hours away in the snowy mountains, my only option was to get my hind parts into that kitchen and make one myself! Thankfully this pumpkin spice cake recipe is crazy easy and the results are worthy of any bakery in my opinion.
If you’ve been looking for a homemade pumpkin spice cake recipe that’s moist, fluffy, and packs in all that old fashioned pumpkin flavor then here ya go! Oh don’t mention it, you’re more than welcomed!
Just be prepared for that delicious pumpkin spice aroma to float throughout your house, totally teasing you while this cake is baking. It’s heavenly. I topped this pumpkin spice cake with an easy cinnamon cream cheese frosting.
I have several cream cheese frosting recipes on my site so take your pick. Some nuts would have made this pumpkin cake sing from the rooftops. I didn’t have any though. So it didn’t sing. But gosh is this thing GUUUUUUD!!
Watch me make this Easy Pumpkin Spice Cake w/ Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting from start to finish!
Get the Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Cake w/ Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-puprose flour
- 1½ teaspoons baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1 ⅓ cups white sugar
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin spice
- 1 ½ cup buttermilk
- 15 oz. 100% pure pumpkin, canned
CINNAMON CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
- 2 8 oz packs cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup butter softened, softened
- 1 teaspoon heavy whipping cream
- 4 cups powdered sugar, sifted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- cinnamon, as much as you like. Can also use pumpkin spice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 275 F.
- Grease and flour 3 round ( 9-inch) cake pans. Set aside.
- In a large bowl whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl cream together sugars and butter.
- Beat in each egg one at a time.
- Fold in vanilla and pumpkin spice.
- Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients, alternating with the buttermilk.
- Fold in pure pumpkin.
- Pour batter evenly into the cake pans.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes (check it at 25 minutes) or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with moist crumbs attached. (do not overbake. Cake will continue cooking while it cools)
- Let cake sit in pans for 5-10 minutes before removing and placing on a cooling rack to cool completely.
- While cake is cooling make the frosting.
- Cream together cream cheese, butter and heavy cream.
- Mix in powdered sugar a little at a time until creamy.
- Fold in vanilla and cinnamon.
- Frost cooled cakes.
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Notes
I’m not sure 275 is the right oven temp. My cakes have been in there for almost 40 mins and are not done. Did you mean 375?
Pleassseeeee fix the temperature that you have listed. I spent two hours trying to bake my cake at 275. Only to realize that it probably should’ve read 375.
I used 275 and mine came out perfect I do know every oven is different….that could be the issue I’ve made this cake 4 times with no issues
This looks fantastic! I am definitely going to give it a try. You mentioned how it’s even tastier the next day – how did you store the cake over night? Did you put it in the fridge or did you leave it out in room temperature? Thank you for sharing this recipe!
this is everything I love about pumpkin desserts. Love how it makes the house smell. Your photos make this cake look so delicious!
I am not a pumpkin fan at all. Can I use sweet potato as a substitute for pumpkin? I don’t mind the pumpkin all spice though.
here I cant find pumpkin in a tin .fresh pumpkin is available how to use that ?.I made red velvet for Christmas it s a great hit among my friends