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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I'm happy you liked it, thanks for making your post.
Would this cake stand up to stacking using dowels? I know you said not for carving... Thanks! Lori-Ann
Hi twiceasnice, yes, the dowels will support the weight of the cake tier above it so the pumpkin spice cake would be fine.
Hi has anyone tried making this with spice cake box mix instead of yellow cake.
Does anyone know how many cupcakes this makes?
Hi Melissa, it should make 24 cupcakes
Hi Melissa, can I use white cake mix ?
Hi Nadeen, yes, you can.
Is this a pretty firm cake if it sits over night?? I have to do a Thankgiving 11x18 sheetcake.??
Hi Mary, I think it would be fine to sit overnight.
I was going to use this recipe to make a pumpkin shaped cake. I want to cover it in fondant and I am a fan of frosting the outside of the cake with ganache. Do you think this recipe would taste ok frosted with ganache? If so, do you recommend white or semi sweet ganache? Thank you!!!!
The cake mix you used - was it an 18.25 oz mix? If not, do you have to add for to make up for the reduced size of the new mixes? Thanks'