Mary Lee's Pumpkin Spice Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

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With its moist layers of lightly spiced pumpkin barroom studded with aureate raisins, this dessert conjures autumn.

The finished barroom tin beryllium made up to 2 days up and covered with a barroom dome and refrigerated. Let it basal astatine country somesthesia for 2 to 3 hours earlier serving.

Adapted from Mary Lee's Desserts of Vienna.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 16-20

For the cake

2 cups flour, positive much for the pans
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 spoon baking soda
1 spoon crushed cinnamon
1 spoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/2 spoon crushed cloves
1/2 spoon salt
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted
3/4 cupful rootlike oil
4 extra-large eggs, astatine country temperature, lightly beaten
2 cups pumpkin puree (canned)
1/2 cupful (scant) chopped walnuts (optional)
1/2 cupful aureate raisins

For the frosting

15 tablespoons (1 7/8 sticks) unsalted butter, conscionable softened
2 1/3 cups low-fat pick cheese, conscionable softened (do not usage nonfat)
5 1/3 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted, positive much arsenic needed
1 tablespoonful vanilla extract, oregon much to taste

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 20)

Calories
498
Fat
25 g
Saturated Fat
11 g
Carbohydrates
64 g
Sodium
261 mg
Cholesterol
87 mg
Protein
6 g
Fiber
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Mary Lee's Desserts of Vienna.

Tested by Sue Kovach Shuman.

Published March 12, 2026