Pumpkin Cakes 🎃🎂 Moist, Spiced & Crowd-Pleasing

Pumpkin cakes bring all the cozy flavors of fall into soft, tender slices or impressive layered desserts.

Whether you love a classic loaf cake, a fluffy layer cake with cream cheese frosting, or a pumpkin roll with swirls of sweet filling, these recipes are perfect for fall gatherings and holiday tables.

Classic Pumpkin Cake

A classic, moist pumpkin cake perfect for any occasion.

Ingredients:

  • Pumpkin purée
  • Sugar & brown sugar
  • Eggs
  • Vegetable oil
  • All-purpose flour
  • Baking powder & baking soda
  • Pumpkin pie spice
  • Salt

Instructions:

  1. Whisk pumpkin, sugars, eggs, and oil until smooth.
  2. Mix in dry ingredients until just combined.
  3. Pour into a greased pan and bake at 350°F for 25–30 min.

👉 Pumpkin Cake Recipe

Pumpkin Spice Cake

Warmly spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.

Ingredients:

  • Pumpkin purée
  • Sugar & brown sugar
  • Eggs
  • Vegetable oil
  • All-purpose flour
  • Baking powder & baking soda
  • Cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger
  • Cream cheese frosting (optional)

Instructions:

  1. Mix pumpkin, sugars, eggs, and oil.
  2. Combine dry ingredients with spices; fold into wet mixture.
  3. Bake in a greased pan at 350°F for 25–30 min.
  4. Frost if desired.

👉 Pumpkin Spice Cake Recipe

Pumpkin Roll Cake

A spiced sponge cake rolled with sweet cream cheese filling.

Ingredients:

  • Pumpkin purée
  • Sugar
  • Eggs
  • Flour
  • Baking powder & baking soda
  • Pumpkin pie spice
  • Cream cheese
  • Butter
  • Powdered sugar
  • Vanilla extract

Instructions:

  1. Make pumpkin sponge cake and bake in a jelly roll pan.
  2. Roll in a towel to cool.
  3. Mix cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla for filling.
  4. Unroll cake, spread filling, and roll back up. Chill before slicing.

👉 Pumpkin Roll Cake Recipe

Pumpkin Layer Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

A bakery-worthy cake for special occasions.

Ingredients:

  • Pumpkin purée
  • Sugar & brown sugar
  • Eggs
  • Vegetable oil
  • All-purpose flour
  • Baking powder & baking soda
  • Pumpkin pie spice
  • Cream cheese
  • Butter
  • Powdered sugar
  • Vanilla extract

Instructions:

  1. Bake pumpkin cake batter in two or three round pans.
  2. Cool completely.
  3. Beat cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla for frosting.
  4. Frost between layers and around the cake.

👉 Pumpkin Layer Cake Recipe

Pumpkin Bundt Cake

Moist and elegant with a drizzle of glaze.

Ingredients:

  • Pumpkin purée
  • Sugar
  • Eggs
  • Oil or melted butter
  • Flour
  • Baking powder & baking soda
  • Pumpkin pie spice
  • Powdered sugar & milk (for glaze)

Instructions:

  1. Mix wet and dry ingredients separately, then combine.
  2. Pour into a greased bundt pan.
  3. Bake at 350°F for 50–55 min.
  4. Cool and drizzle with glaze.

👉 Pumpkin Bundt Cake Recipe

Pumpkin Coffee Cake

Perfect for breakfast or dessert with a cinnamon streusel topping.

Ingredients:

  • Pumpkin purée
  • Sugar & brown sugar
  • Eggs
  • Vegetable oil
  • All-purpose flour
  • Baking powder & baking soda
  • Pumpkin pie spice
  • Streusel topping (flour, sugar, cinnamon, butter)

Instructions:

  1. Prepare pumpkin batter and pour into a baking pan.
  2. Mix streusel and sprinkle on top.
  3. Bake at 350°F for 35–40 min.

👉 Pumpkin Coffee Cake Recipe

Pumpkin Crunch Cake

Layered with pumpkin custard and buttery pecan topping.

Ingredients:

  • Pumpkin purée
  • Sugar
  • Eggs
  • Evaporated milk
  • Pumpkin pie spice
  • Yellow cake mix
  • Butter
  • Chopped pecans

Instructions:

  1. Whisk pumpkin, sugar, eggs, milk, and spices.
  2. Pour into a greased 9×13 pan.
  3. Sprinkle cake mix evenly over top.
  4. Drizzle with melted butter and add pecans.
  5. Bake at 350°F for 50–55 min.

👉 Pumpkin Crunch Cake Recipe

Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipes

Pumpkin cheesecake is the ultimate fall dessert — a perfect blend of velvety cream cheese richness and warm pumpkin spice.

👉 Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipes

🧾 Final Thoughts: A Slice of Fall in Every Bite

Pumpkin cakes are the ultimate fall dessert — moist, warmly spiced, and endlessly adaptable. Serve them frosted, glazed, or simply dusted with powdered sugar for a seasonal treat that always hits the spot.

Pro Tip: Pumpkin cakes taste even better the next day as the spices deepen — store covered at room temperature for up to 3 days.

🎃 All-Purpose Pumpkin Recipes 🎃

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