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Perfect Pumpkin Cake with Maple Frosting

August 5, 2024
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This Is the Perfect Pumpkin Cake with Maple Frosting!How to Make The Perfect Pumpkin CakeCake Ingredients:How to Make Maple Browned Butter FrostingFrosting Ingredients:How To Assemble…Looking For More Pumpkin Recipes? Try These:DescriptionCakeFrostingFrostingAssemblyNutritionWant To Save This Recipe?Find more recipes like this:

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This Pumpkin Cake with Maple Frosting is perfection! It’s so light and fluffy with browned butter maple buttercream frosting! This cake is the perfect fall dessert.

While you’re on a pumpkin kick make sure to try my Pumpkin Dump Cake too! It is OUTRAGEOUS!

 

Perfect Pumpkin Cake with Browned Butter Maple Frosting. This cake starts with a cake mix and SO light and fluffy. And the frosting is simply outrageous!

This Is the Perfect Pumpkin Cake with Maple Frosting!

There is something to be said for a cake recipe that is as easy as it is delicious.This pumpkin cake recipe starts with a cake mix, so it’s super easy and has that unmistakable soft texture, plus the frosting is a dream come true. I kid you not, this frosting is RIDICULOUS. 

The pumpkin combined with the maple and browned butter is an insane combination and will surely be the favorite dessert of your pumpkin season!

A slice of pumpkin cake with a fork taking a bite

How to Make The Perfect Pumpkin Cake

Like I said the cake batter is simple. It starts with a yellow cake mix as the shortcut. You doctor up the cake mix with a few extras, like canned pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice. I love a short cut cake mix recipe.

Cake Ingredients:

  • yellow cake mix
  • pumpkin puree, make sure not to use pumpkin pie filling
  • milk
  • vegetable or canola oil
  • eggs
  • pumpkin pie spice
See also  Healthy Ice Cream

cake mix batter

How to Make Maple Browned Butter Frosting

While the pumpkin cake is baking go ahead and brown your butter. You will need to do this ahead, because once the butter is browned, you will need to chill it, so it’s no longer melted. You can easily do this way in advance, because once it’s chilled (and solid) you will need to bring it back to room temperature so you can whip it for the frosting.

I know this sounds complicated….melt it, chill it, room-temperature-it… but it’s totally easy. Like I said, you can brown your butter way ahead and store it in the fridge until you’re ready to use it!

The frosting is simply the browned butter, powdered sugar and maple syrup!

Frosting Ingredients:

  • butter
  • powdered sugar
  • maple syrup

Browned Butter Maple Frosting

How To Assemble…

I had to “level” my cakes with a serrated knife a small bit, so they stacked nicely. I highly encourage you to eat any extra cake pieces that you cut off. It is a well known fact that these are, indeed, the best pieces of the cake.

Also, note the picture looks like I poked holes in my cake…

Assembling pumpkin cake with frosting

I didn’t. The cake just had some air bubbles that never worked themselves out. Totally no biggie.

Also, you can absolutely cover this cake with frosting…I just prefer the “naked cake” look, with just a filling and a layer on top!

Easy Pumpkin Cake with Browned Butter Maple Frosting.

And you know if you happen to have some really good maple syrup, why not give it an extra drizzle?!

This perfect pumpkin cake recipe is incredibly easy and guaranteed to be a new favorite. The Maple Browned Butter Frosting makes this easy cake recipe extra special.

See also  Candy Corn Rice Krispie Treats

This pumpkin cake should definitely be on your fall baking list!

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Description

This Pumpkin Cake with Maple Frosting is perfection! It’s so light and fluffy with browned butter maple buttercream frosting! This cake is the perfect fall dessert.


Cake

  • 1 box yellow cake mix
  • 1 cup pumpkin puree (like Libby’s canned pumpkin)
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/3 cup oil
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

Frosting

  • 1 cup butter
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 3/4 cup maple syrup


  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Coat 2 8- inch round pans with nonstick spray. Line the bottoms of the pans with parchment paper cut to fit, and spray again. Set aside.
  2. In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment combine the cake mix, pumpkin, milk, oil, eggs and pumpkin pie spice. Mix on low to combine for 30 seconds and then turn the mixer up to medium and continue mixing for 2 minutes, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary.
  3. Divide the batter between the two pans evenly and bake for 25-35 minutes until the centers of the cake is set and toothpick inserted comes out clean.
  4. Allow the cakes to cool in the pan for 5 minutes and then remove the cakes from the pans and allow to cool on a wire rack until cooled completely.
See also  Ultimate Slutty Brownies

Frosting

  1. While the cake is baking place the butter in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat. When the butter is melted and begins to boil begins swirling (or stirring) the pan to prevent the fat solids from sticking to the bottom of the pan and burning. Continue cooking the butter until it becomes a deep amber color. Remove from the heat and cool for 5 minutes. Place the pan in the refrigerator so the butter chills and becomes solid again.
  2. When you’re ready to make your frosting remove the butter from the fridge and allow the butter to sit at room temperature for 10 minutes to take the chill off.
  3. Scrape the browned butter into the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium speed until creamy. Turn the mixer to low and add in the powdered sugar.
  4. Slowly add in the maple syrup and turn the mixer up to medium to mix until creamy, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary.

Assembly

  1. Level one of the cakes with a serrated knife. Place this layer on a cake plate. Top this layer with a little less than half of the frosting and smooth with an off-set spatula. Place the remaining cake on top and top that with the rest of the frosting.
  2. Drizzle a little more maple syrup on top if desired.


Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 slice
  • Calories: 503
  • Sugar: 56.8 g
  • Sodium: 69.9 mg
  • Fat: 28 g
  • Carbohydrates: 62.1 g
  • Protein: 3.6 g
  • Cholesterol: 123.5 mg

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