Pumpkin Crunch Cake

I have been bugged and bothered to post this recipe since I made it.. LAST night!!! It was a hit here at Nordlund Manner! How this came about you ask? Well I took an unofficial official day off due to Emma being sick :( ...poor baby!! So, Emma and I went on the search for something yummy-licious to bake. This process took just about all day. Then we found 3.. at least we narrowed it down to 3! Once Tripp and Gage got home from school they got to VOTE (yeah being a teaching mom there) on which one to make and Taaaa-Da! Pumpkin Crunch Cake one the popular and electoral vote (I was the electoral college...lol)

This recipe turned out to be super duper simple! Mix wet ingredients, sprinkle dry over wet... toss in oven bake an hour enjoy.. yup my kinda of quick recipe!!

Add wet ingredients together.. like so








Just wait it gets better...

 Sprinkle on dry ingredient..

a.k.a spiced cake mix

Add caramel and cinnamon chips...
instead of pecans

Bake

and then.. and then... wait for it... wa-a-ait for it

60 minutes later you get this... 

eating it still hot-ish was sooo good. the middle turns out to be just like pumpkin custard, and the top is crusty and the cinnamon chips taste soo good on top. I am so glad I went with the spiced cake mix verses the yellow cake mix the recipe calls for, it gives it more of a fall taste to it (if you can even taste fall :D )

Just to give your eye some sweet yumminess to stare at, a picture of the center ...

Yeah that's right we ate half of it the first night.. granted it was Jeremy and myself and 2 teenage/ almost teenage boys!

The recipe:

Pumpkin Crunch Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 box yellow cake mix
• 1 can (15 oz) pumpkin puree
• 1 can (12 oz) evaporated milk
• 3 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans (the original recipe called for 1/2 cup)
• 1 cup butter, melted

Heat oven to 350 degrees F.  Grease bottom of 9 x 13″ pan.  Mix pumpkin, milk, eggs, sugar, cinnamon, and salt.  Pour mixture into greased pan.  Sprinkle dry cake mix over pumpkin mixture and top with pecans.  Drizzle melted butter over pecans.  Bake 50-55 minutes.

The site:

http://www.thepickyapple.com/blog/2008/11/22/pumpkin-crunch-cake/

By: Cara, www.thepickyapple.com 

Well I am off work again today so Em and I are going to go all the way to town stock up on stuff to make and bake.. Can't wait to post again, this time it will be dinner. Thanks to Cuz Shana tonight's menu includes Bacon wrapped meatloaf.. Thanks,  <3 ya!!!

We are off. Leave your thoughts below :)

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