Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting-this easy pumpkin spice cake is a fall favorite!
Caleb’s birthday was yesterday. He turned 4!!! How did that happen? Can someone please tell me how my baby is four already? I can’t even deal. It feels like we just brought him home from the hospital yesterday!
We celebrated all weekend long and of course our celebration included cake. I let the birthday boy pick his cake and he chose Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. I make this cake every fall and Caleb loves it. This time, I added sprinkles because Caleb insisted. He said birthday cakes HAVE to have sprinkles. I didn’t object. I love sprinkles too!
I am glad Caleb picked this Pumpkin Bundt Cake because it is super easy to make. I was worried he was going to request an Iron Man or Daniel Tiger cake. He would have been disappointed if I would have attempted to do anything fancy. Sprinkles are my jam! They make any cake look good:)
The pumpkin cake is perfectly spiced and will smell amazing while baking. I used my homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice. Don’t worry it isn’t hard to make, I bet you have all of the spices in your cabinet now! You just need to combine them all:) And it’s so much cheaper than buying it at the store!
I love this cake because it turns out perfect every time! It never disappoints. It is super moist and the cream cheese frosting is the icing on the cake. It is Caleb’s favorite part. He always licks off the frosting first:)
This Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is perfect for any celebration. Caleb reminds us that every day is a celebration so cake is totally appropriate any day! Don’t forget to celebrate the little things in life!
Check out our Favorite Pumpkin Recipes! You will want to make them all:)
Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
For the Cake:
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup vegetable or canola oil
- 3 large eggs, at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 15 ounces 100% pure pumpkin (not pie pilling)
For the Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 4 ounce cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-2 tablespoons milk
- Sprinkles for decorating cake, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 10-inch bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice, and salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine sugar and oil until smooth, about 2 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add in the vanilla extract and mix until combined.
- Add flour mixture to egg mixture alternately with pumpkin, beating well after each addition. Transfer batter to prepared bundt pan.
- Bake for 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Remove from oven and place on a wire cooling rack. Cool for 15 minutes before inverting onto the wire rack. Cool cake completely.
- While the cake is cooling, make the the cream cheese frosting. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Gradually add in powdered sugar and mix until combined. Mix in vanilla and milk. Beat until smooth. If frosting appears to be too thick, slowly add in a little more milk until you reach the desired consistency.
- Spoon frosting over cooled cake. Decorate with sprinkles, if desired. Cut into pieces and serve.
Notes
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This looks so moist and delicious! Happy birthday to Caleb – he clearly has a great taste in cakes!
Awww happy belated birthday Caleb! He keeps getting cuter and cuter!
And I keep getting more and more HUNGRY as i scroll through these photos. Is it wrong that I just tried to eat my screen? Pinned!
Thanks for pinning!
Happy Birthday Caleb! I love that he picked a pumpkin bundt cake for his birthday cake – sprinkles and all:-).
I am glad too! We all love this cake!
Happy Birthday Caleb! 4 is a great age, they are so fun. In our family, we have 9 October Birthdays and are always looking for pumpkin recipes to spice them up (we get sick of cake). This is awesome, sprinkles and all =)
Wow, that is a lot of birthdays and a lot of cake:) I hope you like this one!
happy birthday Caleb! And of course birthday cakes have to have sprinkles. 😉
Yes, sprinkles are a must!
So So adorable!! The cake and Caleb. Happy birthday to your little man!!!
Ahh I absolutely love everything about this cake! The sprinkles are perfect! Happy happy birthday, Caleb!
Oh it looks so good! I would enjoy such bundt cake a lot!
You officially have a full fledged model on your hands. That haircut! Tell Josh to watch out, Caleb is going to take over his Zoolander gig in 5…4…3…2… Happy birthday Caleb!
Ha!! xo
He’s gotten so big! Sprinkles do make everything more fun. Happy birthday Caleb!
What a pretty cake! It’s so festive! Caleb looks like he is enjoying every bite of it! And, let’s be honest, there’s nothing wrong with eating the frosting first. 🙂 Thank you for sharing his birthday cake with us!
mmmm this pumpkin bundt cake looks amazing! i need to make this!
Oh my gosh, that Caleb is such a doll! And that cake!! Yum!!!
This looks great, happy birthday to Caleb! If I added chocolate chips into the cake, how much would you recommend adding and is there any trick to preventing them from all falling to the bottom?
Chocolate chips are a great addition! I would add 1 cup of chocolate chips. To keep them from falling to the bottom, toss them with flour, about 2 tablespoons before adding them to the cake. Enjoy!
This looks SO incredible! And I just got a new bundt pan that’s begging to be broken in! AND I have all the ingredients already! #winning
Yay! Enjoy that new pan!
I’d lick the frosting off first, too! Caleb is my kind of guy. This cake is the epitome of an autumn dessert—and totally irresistible!
Happy Birthday Caleb, I love your choice in cakes. I’m going to have to try this one for sure.
Oh jeez- time flies! Happy Birthday to Caleb and delicious looking cake!
Happiest Birthday to your little man! Love the pictures of him devouring the cake- so cute! I can’t get over how moist and fluffy the crumb of the cake looks. I’m not a fan of dense cakes and this one looks like the complete opposite; so airy and divine. This is definitely going on To-Bake-List 🙂
This looks soooo good!
Is there a way to prepare this cake using a sugar substitute like Stevia, agave or another natural sweetner? And acheive the same or similar results?
I like sugar, but it doesn’t like me. 🙂 Thx.
Oh my gosh, Caleb looks so much older, whatta cutie! And fun pumpkin Bundt!!
sprinkles seriously make everything even better, even if it’s already perfect like this cake! Happy Birthday to Caleb!!
Great fall dessert for any occasion! Happy Birthday to your handsome little fella!
This looks delicious! Can the recipe be adapted to make cupcakes?
If I don’t have pumpkin spice in the house what spices should I use and in what amounts. Thanks.
I would do 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1/2 tsp cloves, and 1/4 tsp ginger!
Such a cute kiddo & this cake looks like the best b’day cake ever!
this is such a stunning cake! Happy birthday to your son 🙂
This looks amazing, thank you. I’ve got a pumpkin from my garden that I have to use and parts of it might end up in this cake. 😉 I really envy you for being able to buy canned pumpkin, makes cooking and baking with pumpkin so much easier!
Who doesn’t live sprinkles??? This cake would be perfect for any occasion. Certainly easier to make than layer cake too.
I made this cake for my little boy’s birthday party on Saturday, and it was a huge hit! Thank you for the wonderful recipe!
I love this! My husband would eat it all up!
I’m making pumpkin muffins this week for the blog!
Happy fall!
I used chopped walnuts instead of sprinkles for a more “adult” version. It came out great, thanks for the recipe!
I bet the walnuts were tasty! Yum!
Cake looks so yummy and would love to make it for this Thanksgiving…just a question….I am not a fan of pumpkin spices like nutmeg and flavors like that…would it be just as yummy if I leave the spices out?
I haven’t tried it without the spices, I like them, but I bet it would be fine if you just used cinnamon, especially if you don’t care for them.
I followed this recipe exactly as written today to make a deliciously moist and perfectly spiced cake. I have enjoyed making many of the recipes from your site. Thank you!
Glad you liked our pumpkin cake!
Wow. I just saw this recipe now. It looks delicious. Can’t wait to try it.
I made this cake 5700 ft. above sea level and it was DELICIOUS! I didn’t make a single alteration to the recipe and it came out perfect. Thanks so much for providing us with a new family favorite!
Would love to make this, it looks delicious. It’s very difficult to find cans of pumpkin here in Scotland but I have fresh pumpkin. Would just blending the fresh pumpkin be the same as what you get in a can?
Sorry, probably a really silly question!
Yes, you can use fresh pumpkin.
I made this and it was great! I used fresh pumpkin, 1/2 cup of olive oil and 1/2 cup homemade applesauce in place of veg oil- it was moist and delicious! Thanks!
Made this cake for Thanksgiving 2016 it was super moist and delicious but I used a brown sugar glaze with chopped pecans.
Love all your posts and your little Caleb is just so adorable Enjoy!!
Can you substitute coconut oil and wheat flour?
Lovely recipe! It was quick, moist and flavorful!
Another awesome recipe, thanks!! I made this in my autumn wreath bundt pan and skipped the cream cheese frosting. It was still delicious! Very moist, pumpkin and spice flavors were just right!
Glad you enjoyed the cake!
Thanks for such a delicious recipe! As the leaves here in New England are turning, my thoughts go to all things pumpkin. Made this cake and the cream cheese frosting recipe for company tonight. Baked a little off in a custard cup to sample and it was scrumptious! I opted for toasted chopped pecans instead of sprinkles (sorry Caleb!) but it is moist and had a wonderful fall flavor. Recipe was easy to follow too.
I’ve made this recipe twice in the past week. My son has a dairy allergy so I am always looking for dairy free recipes.
The cake was moist and delicious and did not need the frosting. Will continue to make this recipe and share the cake with friends
So glad you like the cake! It is a favorite at our house too!
Love this recipe! I made it last year for a family party and it was requested again for Thanksgiving!
Hello. Do you have to refrigerate before eating? I’m thinking of making this today.
No, you can serve right away!
The icing for this cake is not listed correct. It requires 1/4 cub of softened butter. If not it will never make the consistency it should. I added the butter and it is perfect.
Thanks for the recipe.
Would this recipe make 1 or 2 loaf breads?
2 loaf pans, there is too much batter for one pan.
I made this cake and I think my oven was too hot because the crust turned out a bit dry so start checking your cake at 50 or 55 minutes. Also, I could only get pumpkin in twice the amount stated so, I think I put in an ounce or two extra and the batter tasted a little bland.
To compensate for this I made the frosting extra spicy from another recipe with cinnamon, nutmeg and mace
Then I topped it with those Halloween candy pumpkins and it turned out pretty darned cute even though I got the frosting a bit thin so by the time bible study was over some of the frosting had sort of slipped down the side. When I cut and served it I just scooped up the frosting and put a dollop of the saucy frosting on each slice of cake. Everybody loved it
Made this cake today – minus the sprinkles – for a family reunion tomorrow. Can’t wait to cut into it!!!
Enjoy!
I made this cake last weekend, without frosting it, and my family absolutely loved it. It is quite moist and flavorful. Therefore, I am doing it again, especially since I am a pumpkin fan. Thank you for sharing your recipe..
Glad you loved it!
I made this delicious pumpkin Bundt cake, with frosting, for Thanksgiving day. We did not get to eat it until the following day, however it was delicious. I enjoyed the distinct flavor and the easy-to-make frosting. I could not find sprinkles as you depicted, but I did find some leaf sprinkles in Fall colors,which worked very well for me.
Deli
Hi. I made the recipe as directed, but my cake batter turned out very dense. I had to scoop it into the cake pan, then I tried to level it out a bit with a spatula. Is this normal? If not, I can’t imagine where I went wrong. The cake is baking now, and it smells great, but it does not have smooth surface – it looks very chunky. Maybe when I invert it on a wire rack, it will compact a bit.
Please ignore my comment above. I made an error with the ingredients, which was 100% my fault. I made the recipe a second time, and had no problems at all.
Fun fact: Citric acid looks exactly like granulated sugar. Label your jars, everyone, label your jars!
Made the cake yesterday for friends and family. It was a huge hit. It was super moist and flavorful! Thanks for the recipe.
This cake is amazing! Delicious plain, but even more delicious with the cream cheese frosting
Thanks for a great recipe! I will be making this a lot!
Can I substitute butter for oil?
Thank you!
Thanks for this recipe. I made it for Thanksgiving. It was easy to make and delicious and I’m a novice baker. I’ll be making it again.
Just made this tonight, the night before Thanksgiving.
Turned out really well. I made it in mini Bundt pans and cooked for 35 minutes. Already put it in a notebook I have of favorite recipes to keep. Will definitely make this again in the future. Also used the pumpkin spice mix linked in the recipe as I already had everything for it. Thanks for sharing.
I wanted to make a pumpkin dessert but was not feeling pie, so when I found this I was so excited because it sounded yummy and who doesn’t like a reason to use their bundt pan? This cake was a HUGE hit .. perfect texture, perfect balance of sweetness. Wow. I followed this recipe to a T and honestly wouldn’t change a thing. Amazing.
Everyone loved this cake! It was so moist and delicious! I will definitely be making it again.
And I made sure not to use “pumpkin pie pilling” 😉 There’s a wee typo in your recipe.
Can olive oil be substituted for the vegetable oil?
We really like the cake but I don’t know what happened. My cake was not done after 60 minutes. I put it back in the over for another 30 minutes and it still wasn’t done. I had to put it in for an additional 15 minutes to be cook thoroughly . I’m wondering if I did something wrong. Please help if you can. I did follow the recipe exactly as it was written.
The recipie for the cake was wonderful. However, I was unable to get the iceing to be a good consistency to actually stick to the sides of the cake. Not sure what I would use to thicken it. All in all though I loved the recipie, but the taste test will be tonight at dinner.
Made this for Thanksgiving yesterday (after falling in love with the recipe last month). I subsitiuted brown sugar and room temp butter, creaming them together. I also added chopped maple glazed pecans, dried dates and dried apple pieces, topping with crushed. Pecans instead of sprinkles.
Someone mentioned the butter was left out of the directions?
Is this correct?
It does have a cup of oil.
The recipe uses oil and not butter.
Maria, I made this cake this afternoon and did not frost it. I shook Powdered Sugar over it.
DELICIOUS! THANK YOU FOR THIS GREAT RECIPE!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CALEB!
This looks great! I’m lactose intolerant. Can i skip the frosting and maybe dust with powdered sugar. Will cake stand on its own? And if so, can i store room temp rather than fridge? Thanks!
I know see others have posted that they have made with success without frosting! Thanks!
Would I be able to put pecans in the cake? If so, how much? Also, can I substitute one cup of the white sugar for brown sugar? Thanks!
This is a tasty and moist cake! I knocked off one star because it was too much batter for my bundt pan (which is standard size). While it thankfully did not overflow, it was domed over the top edge of the pan and was very dark on the outside while still not quite cooking through at that top (bottom when inverted) level. I also modified a bit by cutting back on the sugar and adding one mashed banana in its place. If I make this again, I’ll use some of the batter for a small loaf or a few cupcakes in order to reduce the cake volume.