Pumpkin Spice Cake~Doctored Cake Mix
Today I'm going to share an amazingly moist and flavorful doctored cake mix Pumpkin Spice Cake recipe!
It's the season for all of the warm, spiced flavors and this Pumpkin Spice Cake is guaranteed to satisfy your cravings! Nobody would guess that this heavenly Pumpkin Cake starts from a simple cake mix!
Make sure to keep this flavorful cake recipe in mind for your Thanksgiving or fall gatherings. It is sure to please a crowd!
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How to Make Pumpkin Spice Cake from Cake Mix
As much as we love a good scratch cake recipe, you can't beat the ease and consistency of a doctored cake mix recipe! They are very forgiving, and there are so many ways to make them your own. Today's cake is a great example of this!
In a mixing bowl, we combined the yellow cake mix, flour, and sugar with eggs, oil, canned pumpkin puree, vanilla, and spices. Mix with an electric mixer for 2 minutes, scooped the batter into the prepared cake pans, and baked.
After cooling the freshly baked pumpkin layers in the pans for five minutes, we turned them out and cooled completely before frosting with cream cheese frosting.
What Frosting goes well with Pumpkin Spice Cake?
*All things pumpkin and spiced deserve a generous slathering of silky smooth Cream Cheese Frosting! You will LOVE this cake with our Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting or Classic Cream Cheese Frosting. The combination is out of this world!
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Pumpkin Spice Cake~Doctored Cake Mix
Ingredients
For the Pumpkin Cake Layers
- 1 Package Yellow Cake Mix I used Duncan Hines Classic Yellow 15.25 oz
- ½ cup (100g) Granulated Sugar
- ½ cup All Purpose Flour
- ½ cup (107g) vegetable oil (or you can substitute one stick of melted butter- 113g)
- 1 cup (235g) pumpkin (Not pumpkin pie filling). We use Libby's 100% Pure Pumpkin (canned)
- ½ cup (121g) milk
- 1 teaspoon (4g) vanilla
- 2 teaspoons (6g) ground cinnamon
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon (2g) nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon (1g) ginger
- You could also add chopped pecans or mini chocolate chips as add ins if you like
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease and flour baking two 8 or 9 inch cake pans or a 9 x 13 baking pan (Batter makes great cupcakes too!)
- In the bowl of your mixer, add the cake mix, 5 Tablespoons flour, (hand whisk to blend the flour into the cake mix, sugar, vegetable oil, vanilla, pumpkin, milk, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and eggs.
- Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes until well blended. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl half way through. Transfer to the cake pans.
- Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 30 min. or until it springs back to the touch.
- Frost with cream cheese frosting or Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting
Notes
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Hi Ashley- I haven't tried but I would probably go with two teaspoons. If you're adding pumpkin spice to your frosting, that will give it an extra boost of spice also.
What is the baking time for the cupcakes?
Hi Chris, For standard size cupcakes bake 18 to 20 minutes.
Thank you.
If this cake is baked in a 9 x 13 cake pan, about how high will it rise? I was thinking of cutting layers with cake rings, and I want to be sure of the height of rise. Thanks.
1 cup or 1 15 oz can of pumpkin purée. A little confusing in ingredient list. Thank you.
Hi Jackie, one cup of pumpkin puree is all that you need. Hope that you enjoy it!
Hi, can I use buttermilk for the milk? Thanks sandy
Hi, can I put this in a Bundt pan? Thanks
Sorry so late to reply, but just found this recipe over the weekend. Made mine in a bundt pan and had to adjust the bake time significantly, but it turned out great!
Made this cake on Sat. Topped it off with a Carmel latte/pumpkin spice frosting. Turned out great and got many compliments. Thanks for posting!
So happy to hear it, Brian- sounds like a great flavor combo too!