In my opinion, you can never have too many Thanksgiving recipes, especially when they’re dessert recipes. When the fall holidays roll around, I offer up treats such as pumpkin meringue pie, pumpkin cake, apple crisp, cake truffles, roasted figs with ice cream and this fabulous pumpkin gooey butter cake. I’m a huge fan of fall recipes, especially when they involve pumpkin. This pumpkin gooey butter cake is full of great flavor. It starts with a cake mix, which also means that it’s easy to make!
Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake Ingredients
To make this recipe, you will need a box of yellow cake mix, eggs, butter, cream cheese, pumpkin puree, pumpkin pie spice, and powdered sugar. You can also add whipped cream on top for an extra special finishing touch.
How Do You Make Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake?
Mix together the cake mix, melted butter and egg, and press the cake batter mixture into a baking pan to form your crust. Beat the pumpkin and cream cheese until smooth, then add in eggs, butter and pumpkin pie spice. Next, mix the powdered sugar into the pumpkin mixture. Pour the pumpkin layer mixture over the cake layer crust in the baking dish, and bake until the center is set. Cool the cake, then cut into squares. Top with whipped cream if desired, then serve and enjoy.
Tips For The Perfect Cake
Make sure you use pure pumpkin puree and NOT pumpkin pie filling for this recipe. Canned pumpkin pie filling contains sugar and other ingredients and will not work properly. This cake can be made up to 2 days before you plan to serve it. Store it covered in the refrigerator. Make sure that your cream cheese is very soft before you mix it with the pumpkin so that you don’t end up with lumps in your batter. This is a very rich cake, so I like to serve it in smaller pieces! No pumpkin pie spice on hand? Make your own by combining 1 teaspoon of cinnamon with 1/4 teaspoon each of nutmeg, allspice, ginger and cloves.
Flavor Variations
This cake is delicious as-is, but you can change up the ingredients a bit to customize the flavors to your tastes
Crust: Instead of yellow cake mix, try using vanilla cake, spice cake or ginger cake mix. Filling: You can swap out the pumpkin for sweet potato puree for a different flavor. Toppings: Feel free to add more toppings to your cake before you serve it. Some great options include chopped pecans, a drizzle of caramel or even some toffee chips.
Just a fair warning, this is a rich dessert. But in the best possible way! It’s got all kinds of amazing flavors and textures and this treat will surely fulfill your cravings for pumpkin desserts.
Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake Video
