Ingredients
Scale
- Easy Pumpkin Cake:
- 1 box Trader Joe’s Vanilla Cake & Baking Mix
- 1 can pumpkin
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 1 cup cold milk
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 4 ounce cream cheese at room temperature
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 8 ounces of confectioners sugar
- Chocolate Sauce:
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 3/4 Trader Joe’s semi sweet chocolate chips (or other favorite chocolate chips)
- Plastic bag or plastic squeeze bottle
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F
- Grease a 9×13 cake pan with canola oil or baking spray
- In large mixing bowl combine eggs, melted butter, cold milk and pumpkin
- Add cake mix, cinnamon, nutmeg and whisk until batter is smooth
- Pour into cake pan and bake for 35 minutes
- Allow to cool before adding frosting
- Cream Cheese Frosting:
- Add room temp butter and cream cheese into large bowl or stand mixer and beat until well incorporated
- Add vanilla and then powder sugar blending until a smooth consistency
- Carefully dollop small amounts at a time onto the top of the cake spreading the cream cheese evenly
- Chocolate Sauce:
- Add 1/4 cup healvy cream to a small sauce pan and heat over medium heat, turning off just before boiling
- Immediately add your chocolate chips to the hot cream and whisk quickly until all the chocolate is melted
- Immediately transfer to your plastic bag or squeeze bottle
- If using a plastic bag I use a tall glass to hold the bag while I pour in the sauce, then make a small cut on one corner of the bag
- Squeeze sauce drizzling from one corner of the cake all the way to the other corner, repeat in opposite direction from corner to corner
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 35 mins
- Category: Dessert