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Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
If you're more of a cake person than a pie person, this Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. A flavorful and tasty dessert to serve for Thanksgiving or any fall celebration, this spice cake smells as good as it tastes, and the tangy and delicious cream cheese frosting puts this cake over the top.
  • Prep25 min
  • Total Time2 hr
  • Skill LevelBeginner
    Amount24 Servings
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Instructions

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  1. Preheat oven to 325°F. Prepare a 9 in. x 13 in. cake pan with vegetable pan spray.
  2. In a medium bowl, combine flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and ginger. In another medium bowl, whisk together pumpkin and buttermilk.
  3. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  4. Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with pumpkin mixture, mixing thoroughly after each addition. Pour batter into prepared pan.
  5. Bake for 48-52 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool completely in the pan on a cooling grid.
  6. For frosting, in a large bowl, beat cream cheese with an electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Add confectioners’ sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating until smooth. Beat in vanilla. Spread icing on cooled cake.

Notes

    • Use half shortening and half butter for frosting decorations:
      • Substitute out half of the butter in the frosting ingredients with solid vegetable shortening for pipable frosting. The shortening will help frosting decorations hold their shape for longer.
    • Buttermilk vs Sour milk:
      • Buttermilk and Sour milk are different, but both have some acidity to them. Some recipes will need this acidity to react with baking soda or baking powder. Buttermilk: is milk that has a bacteria culture added to it and allowed to ferment which gives it a tangy flavor. Sour milk: is a good substitute for Buttermilk and can be bought or made by adding vinegar and lemon juice to regular milk which makes it sour.
    • To store decorated cake:
      • Place the cake in the freezer, unwrapped, for 4 hours or more. Once frozen, wrap the cake securely in plastic wrap, then in aluminum foil. Your cake should stay fresh for at least a couple weeks wrapped this way. A day before serving, place in the fridge and loosen the wrapping. Let the cake defrost overnight in the fridge.
    • To store undecorated cake:
      • Wrap the individual cake layers in plastic wrap, then aluminum foil. When ready to serve, remove the wrapping and let the cake layers defrost completely in the fridge.

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