Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing

This Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing is an easy homemade sheet cake that bakes in less than 30 minutes and is the perfect fall dessert!

I love all things pumpkin and this Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing is one of my favorites. Right along with these Soft Pumpkin Cookies. We eat pumpkin desserts all year long but especially in the fall! I also am in love with sheet cakes, they are the quickest way to make homemade cake for a crowd. Here are a couple other of my favorites, Texas Sheet Cake and Vanilla Texas Sheet Cake.

Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing

Part of the reason I love sheet cakes so much is the icing to cake ratio. I am not the biggest icing fan so these cakes are perfect for me. If you are an icing fan I would recommend doubling the icing part of the recipe.

The cake really is easy to make start by creaming the first couple ingredients, add the dry ingredients and then the pumpkin. Fold the pecans in at the end and bake until done. You can leave out the pecans if you would prefer the cake without.

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Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Total Time 35 minutes minutes

Servings 24

Ingredients

Cake

• 1 cup oil
• 1 egg
• 1 2/3 cup sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 1 16 ounce can pumpkin
• 1 cup chopped pecans

Icing

• 1 8 ounce package cream cheese, at room temperature
• 1 stick 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

• Beat together oil, sugar and egg.
• Stir in salt, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda and flour.
• Add the pumpkin until blended.
• Fold in the chopped pecans.
• Pour into a greased 10x15 jelly roll pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
• While the cake is baking mix together the icing.
• Blend together all the ingredients and spread on warm cake.

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