35+ Pumpkin Cakes to Make Fall Dinners Spectacular
These pumpkin cakes are almost too impressive to eat.
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Sure, when the topic of pumpkin-based desserts comes up (as it regularly does) everyone's attention turns toward pies. And pumpkin pies are great. But as you're preparing other pumpkin recipes this season, you may want to give a little more thought to adding pumpkin cakes to the list.
If you've never added pumpkin to your cake batter before, prepare to be amazed. The addition of the pumpkin puree will make your cake unbelievably moist, and it also adds the perfect amount of flavor without being overpowering. Plus, pumpkin complements so many other flavors, such as chocolate, caramel, and cream cheese—and this list is filled with all those mashups and many more.
Any one of these impressive pumpkin cakes would be a sweet end to your fall dinner party, Halloween bash, or Thanksgiving menu. Of course, you could also bake one of these cakes any day of the week to give your family a sweet surprise they'll love. If you're searching for more pumpkin dessert recipes to go along with these cakes, we recommend whipping up a batch of pumpkin cookies, or even pumpkin bars. But, really, once you go pumpkin cakes, you may decide never to turn back. Along with simple bundt cakes, and easy weeknight cakes, we have super fancy celebration cakes with stunning orange frosting and pretty decorations made from marzipan. You'll also find sweet icebox cakes, creamy mousse cakes, classic dump cakes, and even foolproof ways to make boxed cake mixes into magically delicious pumpkin goodness. With over three dozen recipes to choose from, the perfect pumpkin cake recipe is waiting for you here.
Chocolate Brown Sugar Butter Cake with Spiced Pumpkin Frosting
This rich, buttery cake saves all the pumpkin flavor for the frosting, but don't let that fool you: It tastes like pure fall.
Pecan-Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Glaze
Make this delicious fall dessert whenever you're looking for a sweet treat to eat.
Chocolate Pumpkin Cake
This stunningly spooky cake makes a delicious Halloween dessert, but is also easy enough to make for the heck of it on a weekend.
Sweet Pumpkin Patch
This towering pumpkin patch begins as three cakes in graduated sizes, with three generous layers of honey and spice buttercream that escape temptingly toward the tiers' edges. The pumpkins and leaves, both made of tinted marzipan, needn't be perfect to be appreciated, so invite young helpers to assist.
Pumpkin Cake with Marzipan Stem
With its vanilla-sugar icing and marzipan stem (which you can learn to make here), this cake is sure to earn Best in Show. The secret to its perfect form? It's made from two mini, dome-shaped bundt pan cakes, fitted together.
Marzipan Pumpkins
These sweet little decorations look great on a cake.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Layer Cake
With chocolate chip-loaded cake batter and chocolate frosting, this treat is a chocolate lover's dream. You'll be licking your plate clean.
Get the recipe at Life, Love and Sugar.
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bundt Cake
Even amateurs will breeze though baking this bundt cake. The blogger promises her recipe is super easy.
Get the recipe at Sally's Baking Addiction.
Pumpkin Cake With Candied Pecans
Delicious candied pecans give this cake a nice crunch. In fact, you might want to go ahead and make extra to have on hand as a sweet and salty snack.
Get the recipe at Liv for Cake.
Pumpkin Chocolate Mousse Cake
Each layer of this luscious cake features a different fall flavor. With every forkful you'll get a bite of chocolate cake, cinnamon mousse, pumpkin-butterscotch mousse, and salted caramel mousse, along with chocolate ganache and whipped cream.
Get the recipe at SugarHero!.
Cinnamon Roll Pumpkin Cake
Cake for breakfast? Say no more! In fact, this blogger writes that a slice of her cinnamon roll pumpkin cake pairs perfectly with a hot cup of coffee.
Get the recipe at Inside BruCrew Life.
Carrot Pumpkin Cake
You won't believe how well carrot and pumpkin complement each other in this cake. The cream cheese frosting makes the combo even more mouthwatering.
Get the recipe at Chelsea's Messy Apron.
Pumpkin Pie Icebox Cake
You don't even have to turn on your oven to make this cool, creamy dessert. This treat is so easy to prepare, even pint-size bakers can help you make it.
Get the recipe at The Recipe Critic.
Pumpkin Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting and Salted Caramel Drizzle
Not only is this stunning sweet scrumptious, but it also can double as a centerpiece for your Thanksgiving feast or any fall dinner. Your guests will be beyond impressed.
Get the recipe at Broma Bakery.
Pumpkin Magic Cake
A boxed cake mix makes this dessert basically foolproof. You'll be baking this recipe again and again.
Get the recipe at Jo Cooks.
Chai Pumpkin Cake With Maple Browned Butter Frosting
Cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom spice up this impressive cake. The flavors wonderfully balance out the sweet maple frosting.
Get the recipe at Half Baked Harvest.
Pumpkin Dump Cake
You can completely customize this recipe using your favorite nut. Although this blogger used pecans, she notes that walnuts or almonds would also be tasty. Or, you could skip the addition altogether.
Get the recipe at Dinner at the Zoo.
Caramel Pecan Pumpkin Cake
A homemade caramel sauce is the secret behind this showstopping pumpkin cake. It's so good, you'll never use a store-bought version again.
Get the recipe at Tatyana's Everyday Food.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake
Pumpkin and chocolate are a match made in heaven and a cream cheese drizzle makes the combo even better.
Get the recipe at Life, Love and Sugar.
Maple Streusel Pumpkin Cake
This beautiful cake is layered with maple cinnamon frosting and finished with a sweet brown sugar streusel.
Get the recipe at Liv for Cake.
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