Pumpkin cream cheese Bundt cake is all the things you like about pumpkin cake with a decadent cheesecake layer hiding inside. Easy to organize and completely spiced, this fall cake all the time impresses a crowd. This layered magnificence is irresistible by itself, however much more worthy of your fork with salted caramel drizzled on prime! 😉
I initially revealed this recipe in 2016 and have since added new pictures and extra useful success ideas.
If you happen to like my pumpkin Bundt cake, you’re going to like in the present day’s pumpkin cream cheese Bundt cake. We use the identical base recipe, skip the chocolate chips, and add a cream cheese layer. Hiya, fall!
Why You’ll Love This Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bundt Cake:
- Moist, dense pumpkin cake crumb with a cheesecake-style filling
- Spiced with cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice (or you need to use pumpkin pie spice)
- Pumpkin + cream cheese make an amazing workforce, similar to in these pumpkin cream cheese muffins and pumpkin cheesecake pie
- Conveniently makes use of 1 normal can of pumpkin. (My beloved pumpkin pie makes use of a complete can, too. For future reference!)
- Straightforward to make; newbie bakers can completely deal with this one
- A big, lovely, spectacular cake good for fall celebrations—with no adorning expertise required
If you happen to love dessert + cozy fall flavors, right here’s a listing of 30+ fall cake recipes.
These Are Key Substances You Want & Why
Like the entire recipes on my web site and in my cookbooks, my workforce and I examined varied elements and ratios to develop a standout cake with wonderful taste and texture. Listed here are some key elements:
- Baking Soda: 2 teaspoons of baking soda looks like quite a bit, and it’s. However take into consideration the scale of a Bundt cake… they’re enormous, and must rise rather a lot within the tall cake pan. Along with leavening, baking soda deepens a baked good’s colour and neutralizes its acids.
- Spices: Cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice. By itself, pumpkin is sort of bland, so that you want quite a lot of spice for taste. You may also use pumpkin pie spice right here—see recipe Notes.
- Oil: You should utilize vegetable oil, canola oil, or avocado oil right here. This cake wants a neutral-tasting oil so it doesn’t overpower the pumpkin spice taste.
- Eggs: Pumpkin, oil, and flour are large, heavy elements so that you want eggs within the batter for carry; eggs additionally bind the elements collectively. You want an egg for the cream cheese filling, too.
- Pure Pumpkin: This Bundt cake conveniently makes use of one normal 15-ounce can of pumpkin. For greatest outcomes and taste, I strongly advocate utilizing canned pumpkin puree as an alternative of selfmade. I desire Libby’s model for this cake. (Not sponsored by them, only a large fan!)
- Cream Cheese: It’s vital to make use of the block cream cheese that is available in a field, versus the spreadable form that is available in a bath. That’s nice for bagels, however it doesn’t make for a sturdy, sliceable cheesecake layer.
You additionally want all-purpose flour, salt, brown sugar + granulated white sugar, and vanilla.
The Finest Cream Cheese Filling to Use
You solely want 4 elements for the cream cheese layer, 3 of which you already received out for the cake batter: brick-style cream cheese, an egg, granulated sugar, and vanilla extract.
This tangy, creamy filling isn’t overly candy, which I really like—and I feel you’ll admire too. Actual flavors shine by in the present day!
Overview: Find out how to Make It
You’ll discover the complete recipe under, however right here’s a fast visible of the steps:
Make the cake batter. This is so simple as whisking collectively the dry elements, whisking collectively the moist elements, after which whisking moist + dry collectively.
Make the cream cheese filling. Use an electrical mixer to beat the softened cream cheese till fully easy—no lumps. Then beat within the remaining elements.
Let’s layer: Unfold half the pumpkin batter into your greased Bundt pan. Fastidiously unfold the cream cheese filling on prime. I prefer to unfold it as near the sides of the pan as potential, so that you get filling in each chew. Then prime with the remaining cake batter.
You comply with related layering strategies when making my cheesecake swirl carrot Bundt cake.
And bake. It is a enormous cake so it takes some time to fully bake by. You’ll additionally must let it cool for a bit earlier than you invert it, in any other case it’ll keep on with the pan.
As I stated earlier than, this cake doesn’t really want a topping, however if you wish to add slightly one thing additional, it’s fabulous as pictured with salted caramel sauce + flaky sea salt sprinkled on prime. It’s additionally beautiful with vanilla icing + a pinch of pumpkin pie spice. Or go full-cream-cheese-ahead and prime with the maple cinnamon cream cheese icing from these pumpkin cinnamon rolls!
Bundt Pan Suggestions
Do you make quite a lot of Bundt desserts? In that case, you want a Bundt pan that’s 9.5 to 10.5 inches in diameter, and may maintain 10 to 12 cups of batter. Let me share two favourite Bundt cake pan choices with you:
- Anolon Bundt Pan: Tremendous high quality, heavy-duty, nice worth, by no means warps, superior rubber grips. I’ve been utilizing it for years and, truthfully, it’s simply as sturdy as day 1.
- Nordic Ware Bundt Pan: Excellent high quality, heavy-duty, and makes lovely desserts.
Whichever Bundt pan you employ, you should definitely grease it very generously earlier than including the batter. Even when the pan is labeled nonstick, as a result of dimension and weight of a Bundt cake, you NEED quite a lot of greasing so the cake simply separates from the pan when inverting it.
Different Favourite Pumpkin Recipes
And you should definitely bookmark this checklist of greatest pumpkin desserts.
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bundt Cake
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Prepare dinner Time: 60 minutes
Complete Time: 4 hours, half-hour
Yield: serves 12
Class: Cake
Methodology: Baking
Delicacies: American
Description
Pumpkin cream cheese Bundt cake combines generously spiced pumpkin cake with wealthy and creamy cheesecake. Easy to organize, this fall cake all the time impresses a crowd. This layered magnificence is irresistible by itself, however you possibly can add optionally available toppings. See recipe Notice.
Cake
Cream Cheese Filling
Optionally available Topping
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C) and generously grease a 10-inch Bundt pan. (Even when your pan is labeled nonstick, nonetheless grease it very properly to stop the large heavy cake from sticking.)
- Make the cake batter: In a big bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice collectively. Put aside. In one other massive bowl, whisk the pumpkin, brown sugar, granulated sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla extract collectively till mixed. Pour the moist elements into the dry elements and whisk till fully mixed. Batter is thick. Put aside.
- Make the cream cheese filling: Utilizing a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle or whisk attachment, beat the cream cheese on excessive velocity till no lumps stay, about 1 minute. Scrape down the edges of the bowl with a silicone spatula. Beat within the remaining elements on medium-high velocity till mixed and creamy, about 1 minute.
- Unfold half of the pumpkin batter into the ready bundt pan. Unfold the entire cream cheese filling evenly on prime. Unfold the remaining pumpkin batter on prime. Use a knife to softly swirl the layers collectively.
- Bake for 55–65 minutes or till a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clear with only a couple evenly moist crumbs. It is a massive, heavy cake so don’t be alarmed if it takes slightly longer in your oven. Mine often takes 60 minutes precisely.
- As soon as executed, take away from the oven and permit to chill for two hours within the pan set on a wire rack. Then invert the marginally cooled Bundt cake onto a cooling rack or serving plate/cake stand.
- Permit to chill fully earlier than drizzling with optionally available topping and serving.
- Cowl leftover cake tightly and retailer at room temperature for as much as 2 days and/or within the fridge for as much as 5 days.
Notes
- Freezing Directions: Baked cake might be frozen for as much as 3 months. Be sure you wrap it tightly. Permit to thaw in a single day within the fridge earlier than serving.
- Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): Bundt Cake Pan (I like this one or this one) | Glass Mixing Bowls | Whisk | Electrical Mixer (Handheld or Stand) | Cooling Rack
- Spices: As an alternative of 1/2 teaspoon every ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice, you need to use 2 teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice. (You’ll nonetheless add the two teaspoons of floor cinnamon.)
- Pumpkin: For greatest outcomes and taste, I strongly advocate utilizing canned pumpkin puree over selfmade on this recipe. I discovered the flavour is significantly better with canned. I desire Libby’s model for this cake.
- Oil: You should utilize vegetable oil, canola oil, avocado oil, or olive oil. As an alternative of 1 cup of oil, attempt 1/2 cup (90g) unsweetened applesauce and 1/2 cup (120ml) oil. The cake is simply as moist. If you wish to use coconut oil, soften it first, and ensure that the entire different elements are room temperature. Bake the batter straight away, as a result of because the coconut oil begins to chill and solidify, it thickens the batter and will end in a very dense cake.
- Cream Cheese: Brick cream cheese is usually bought in 8-ounce blocks. You want 1 and 1/2 of them for this cake.
- Extra Topping Choices: Brown butter icing from my peach Bundt cake; chocolate ganache; cream cheese frosting; selfmade whipped cream; brown sugar glaze from my apple Bundt cake
- Can I Flip This Right into a Loaf? Sure. This recipe yields 2 loaf pan-size desserts, made in 9×5-inch loaf pans. Bake time will likely be just like my pumpkin bread. Merely layer the pumpkin and cream cheese batters, then swirl gently with a knife.
