Pumpkin Spice Latte Mini Pumpkin Cakes
Looking for an easy dessert perfect for a fall gathering or Halloween party? These adorable mini pumpkin bundt cakes are made fast with boxed cake mix and storebought frosting, and are a must-try for any pumpkin spice latte lover!
Equipment
- Mini Bundt Pan
Ingredients
- 1 Box Pumpkin Cake Mix
- 2 1/2 Tbsp. Instant Coffee
- 3 Large Eggs
- 1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil
- 1 Cup Water
- 1 Tub Cream Cheese Frosting
- Cinnamon sticks
- Baking Spray
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray the bundtlette pan well with baking spray.
- Add the box cake mix, coffee, eggs, oil, and water to a large mixing bowl and beat according to the directions on the cake mix box (mine was medium speed for 2 minutes).
- Spoon the cake batter into the prepared pan about half full.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes until done in the middle.
- Cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then turn the mini bundts out onto a cooling rack to finish cooling.
- Trim the bottom of the cakes if needed so that they are flat.
- Next, slice out the points. (This is optional but makes the finished cakes look more like a pumpkin.)
- Frost the bottom flat side of one mini cake, and add another one on top to form the little pumpkins.
- Make the cream cheese glaze. Heat the remainder of the frosting in the microwave for 20-30 seconds until it is a pourable glaze consistency. Drizzle over the top of each pumpkin.
- Cut or break cinnamon sticks in half and pop into the top to complete each pumpkin.
Notes
Options and Variations for Pumpkin Shaped Mini Cakes.
- Dye the cream cheese frosting orange with some gel food coloring.
- Frost the whole pumpkin with cream cheese icing. (With these little cakes this is a bit more difficult unless the cake is on the dry side).
- Make one large pumpkin-shaped cake with two regular-sized bundt cakes (fill in the hole with the parts you trim off).
- Sprinkle the top with confectioner’s sugar rather than glaze.
- Up the pumpkin pie flavor with some additional pumpkin pie spice.
- Instead of cream cheese frosting, drizzle with a maple syrup glaze or brown sugar glaze.
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