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Pumpkin Cake is a crock-pot dessert recipe that came to me later in life but when it showed up, it did so in a big way.

This pumpkin cake recipe was our first recipe to go viral, within our first year of starting Platter Talk, back in 2013.

Featured in Country Living, Better Homes and Garden, House Beautiful, MSN Food, and in a variety of other high-profile media outlets, you can make this easy pumpkin cake recipe in just two hours at home.

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About this

Halloween is still a few weeks away, but suddenly there are gourds and pumpkins popping up all over the place.

Speaking of pumpkins, one of them ended up in the most unexpected places the other day – in my slow cooker. When it came out, it looked like this:

Growing up on a big Mennonite family farm, I always had a special relation ship with pumpkins.

Each year I would plant a row or two in my mom’s huge garden and as I grew older, I would try to grow the biggest pumpkins possible.

I tried milk-feeding them, like I read about int the Little House on the Prairie books, using fresh milk and cream from our cows via a bowl and a candle wick spliced into the pumpkin vines.

It wasn’t until the fall season when I first left for college that some of my pumpkins had tipped the scale at over 40 pounds!

As fate would have it, I was over 100 miles away and wasn’t even able to bask in the glory of my pumpkin pride.

And then 35 years later this pumpkin cake recipe showed up.

It was given to my recipe pimp and beautiful friend, Amy, who picked it up in the grocery store check-out isle.

I made this easy pumpkin dump cake for my new food and recipe blog, and all of the sudden, Platter Talk became real.

And so did this incredibly simple crock-pot dessert.

Ingredients

Packed pumpkin

Flour

Sugar

Butter

Eggs

Baking Powder

Baking Soda

Pumpkin Spice

Salt

Caramel Sauce (optional topping)

Recipe highlights

This pumpkin dessert recipe is inexpensive or downright cheap at less than $10 for the whole thing.

Make this crock-pot dessert in just two hours.

You don’t need to be a baker to make this pumpkin dump cake, anyone can put it together! Much like our 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

Most importantly, the taste of this pumpkin cake recipe is nothing short of a miracle, IMHO.

In conclusion, this pumpkin cake recipe pretty much has it all.

It’s affordable, it’s extremely easy to prepare, and it is scary delicious.

This is the perfect crock-pot dessert recipe to make for guests or family, for Halloween, Thanksgiving, or any holiday.

If you were like me and thought that crock pots were just for making dinner and meals for the family while you are spending your entire day doing something else, I say, “Think again.

Oven method



If you don’t have a slow cooker, you can make this slow cooker cake in an oven. Here is how to do that:

Bake at 350° F.

The type of pan you have will determine how long to bake.

A loaf pan will require 45 minutes, a sheet cake or double layer cake will take about 30 minutes.

It is recommended that you not use a glass baking pan for this cake as metal and ceramic pans seem to help keep the batter from falling.

To avoid using processed (granulated white sugar), you can use 1/3 cup of maple syrup and 1/3 cup of honey.

If you don’t want to use butter, readers have used 2/3 cup of sunflower oil with great success.

Finally, some people have added a little extra pumpkin spice to the batter and a cap-full of vanilla.

Try this recipe and let us know how you make it!

PS: See us making this Pumpkin Cake on WLUK Fox 11, Living with Amy!

Dan and Scott making this crockpot dessert on Living with Amy, in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

More of our Favorite Dessert Recipes:

Some of our Most Popular Holiday Recipes

If you love caramel you have to have a taste of our homemade caramel popcorn. One handful is all it takes to get you hooked!

PS: Looking for another fall slow cooker recipe? Try our Crock-Pot Apple Butter! It’s great on toast and as an ingredient for cakes, cookies, breads, meatloaf and pork recipes!

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Slow Cooker Sticky Caramel Pumpkin Cake A delicious pumpkin cake from your slow cooker that goes together quickly and takes just a couple of hours to cook/bake! Adapted from pilcookbooks.com 4.68 from 61 votes Print Pin Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 2 hours Total Time: 2 hours 10 minutes Servings: 12 people Calories: 426 kcal Author: Dan from Platter Talk Cost: $10 Ingredients 2 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or ground cinnamon

1 1/3 cups sugar

1 cup butter softened

4 eggs at room temperature

15 oz solid pack pumpkin 1 can

16 oz caramel sauce 1 jar Instructions Coat 4 1/2 quart slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray, turn to “high.”

Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice in mixing bowl.

Beat sugar and butter in large bowl with electric mixer for about 3 minutes, until light.

Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each one.

Add packed pumpkin, blend until well mixed.

Gradually add flour mixture and beat at low speed for a minute or so until smooth.

Spread evenly in slow cooker and cover.

Cook on high setting 2 hours or until center-inserted tooth pick comes out clean.

Let cake stand, uncovered 10 minutes.

Invert onto wire rack, invert again onto serving plate.

Drizzle half of caramel sauce over cake. Serve warm with additional sauce. Video Nutrition Calories: 426 kcal | Carbohydrates: 66 g | Protein: 5 g | Fat: 17 g | Saturated Fat: 10 g | Cholesterol: 95 mg | Sodium: 478 mg | Potassium: 219 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 23 g | Vitamin A: 6100 IU | Vitamin C: 1.6 mg | Calcium: 74 mg | Iron: 1.9 mg

Updated from the original post of September 19, 2014