Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Name: Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Yield: Serves 16
Ingredients: 2 cups (10 ounces), all-purpose flour; 1 tablespoon, ground cinnamon; 2 teaspoons, baking powder; 1 teaspoon, baking soda; 1 teaspoon, table salt; 1 teaspoon, ground ginger; 1/2 teaspoon, ground allspice; 1 2/3 cups (11⅔ ounces), granulated sugar; 1 cup, vegetable oil; 4 , large eggs; 1 , (15-ounce) can pumpkin puree; 1 tablespoon, vanilla extract; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; 1 1/2 cups (6 ounces), confectioners' sugar; 1 , (8-ounce) package cream cheese, cut into 8 pieces and softened; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2007

Desserts or Baked Goods

Cakes

We balance the spices to let the pumpkin flavor shine through in this snack cake.

SERVES16

TIME1¼ hours, plus 2 hours cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

UPDATE: This recipe has been slightly reformulated to be more failproof since its initial publication. The revision you see here was published in April of 2022. Pumpkin cake recipes should be easy, but the pumpkin cake recipes we tried made...

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