Friday, October 17, 2008

Paula Dean's Oooey gooey butter pumpkin cake

I saw this on Rachel Ray last year and I have waited this long to try it! So I made it last night for our gigantic enrichment activity (4 girls showed up, 1 participated!) of carving pumpkins! Anyway, everyone loved the desert and shad ate more for breakfast :( so here it is. and yes, it's not healthy...notice the word "butter" in the name!?! 




Ingredients
For the cake:
1 18.25-ounce box yellow cake mix
1 egg
1/2 cup (1 stick) melted butter
For the filling:
1- 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
1-15 ounce can pumpkin pie filling
3 eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 16-ounce box confectioners’ sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) melted butter

Yields: 20-24 small squares

Preparation
Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a 13 x 9 x 2 inch baking pan.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine cake mix, egg and butter, and mix well. Pour into the bottom of prepared pan and set aside.
In the mixer, beat cream cheese until smooth; add pumpkin pie filling, eggs and vanilla. Dump in confectioner’s sugar and beat well. Reduce speed of mixer and slowly pour in butter. Mix well. Pour filling on top of cake mixture and spread evenly. Bake 40-50 minutes (You want the center to be a little gooey; so don’t bake past that point!). Remove from oven and allow to cool completely before cutting into squares.

3 comments:

Hallie Owens said...

I am going to make this for Landon's birthday. Thanks for putting it on.

carly said...

I promise it'll be a hit! But make sure to share it or you'll eat it all!

Elise Maygren said...

we tried this recipe tonight...it was very good, Thank You!