Pumpkin Spice Sheet Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Submitted by Kittencalrecipezazz

"I made this cake recently. It is one of the best sheet cakes I have tried and the icing is wonderful!"

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 18
• Serves: 15-20

ingredients

• CAKE

• 4 large eggs
• 1 1⁄2 cups white sugar, plus
• 1⁄2 cup brown sugar, packed or 2 cups white sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 3 teaspoons cinnamon
• 3⁄4 teaspoon ginger powder
• 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 teaspoon clove

• CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

• 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 tablespoons whipping cream, unwhipped
• 3 1⁄2 cups icing sugar (more if needed)

directions

1. Set oven to 350°F.
2. Grease a 15x10-inch jelly-roll pan.
3. For the cake; in a large bowl combine the eggs, both sugars, oil, pumpkin puree and vanilla; beat until smooth and well combined (about 2 minutes).
4. In another bowl combine the flour with, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon and cloves; stir into the pumpkin mixture until well combined.
5. Spread the batter into jelly-roll pan.
6. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until lightly browned.
7. Cool cake completely.
8. For the frosting; in a large bowl cream butter with cream cheese, vanilla and whipping cream until light and fluffy (about 2 minutes).
9. Add in the icing sugar; beat until smooth adding in more icing sugar or whipping cream (if needed) to achieve desired consistency).
10. Spread over completely cooled sheet cake.

Reviews

[DDusterr]

Easy and delicious! Now you can have the flavor of pumpkin pie in a cake.

 

[coconutty]

I was trying to find a really awesome pumpkin spice cake and had tried two dog recipes before this one, so I am thrilled with this! I did tweak it: used more spice and less sugar, I used half the amount of oil and used unsweetened applesauce for the balance of the oil. The texture is perfect! I still need to tweak the spice/sugar balance a little more. Made this in a small loaf pan and adjusted the baking time.

 

[jkarnett]

I baked this cake for my work colleagues and they enjoyed it very much. I baked a second one substituting Splenda Blend (white and brown sugar)for the sugar, 1/2 c unsweetened applesauce for 1/2 of the oil and 1 cup of whole wheat flour for 1 cup of white flour. I added 1/2 c each of raisins and walnuts. I gave the finished cake a dusting of powdered sugar. I was pleased with the results. It reminded me of a snack cake I use to make as a child. My take on a healthier version.

 

[Chatty Patty]

My husband I enjoyed this sheet cake. I followed your cake recipe to a T except I added raisins and chopped walnuts to the batter since I had them on hand. I didn't have whipping cream so I substituted vanilla caramel coffee creamer in its place. This is a simple recipe to follow and the end result was tasty! Thanks Kittencal!

 

[Calee]

I love this cake and the icing is very good as well, wonderful combination I used the part white/brown sugar I only used 2 tsp cinnamon and just a pinch of cloves. The cake is very moist and full of flavor. I found that I didnt need all the icing, maybe 1/2 as much. Freezes well. Thanks for posting! We will be making this again.