This flavorful pumpkin Bundt cake is incredibly moist, perfectly spiced, and dotted with melty chocolate chips. Prefer your pumpkin cake plain? Leave the chocolate chips out!
Moist and dense, this pumpkin Bundt cake delivers BIG. It’s not quite as heavy as a pound cake or quite as light as my favorite pumpkin cake. Instead, it meets somewhere in the middle and this place is called calorie-town. Worth every bite.
How to Make Pumpkin Bundt Cake
The process couldn’t be easier; this Bundt cake requires just 2 bowls: 1 for wet and 1 for dry. The ingredients are all kitchen staples like flour, spices, vanilla, and eggs. Oil is the fat used in this pumpkin cake, so you’re guaranteed a super moist cake from the start. If calorie-town isn’t a place you want to be, you can sub unsweetened applesauce for half of the oil. Just as moist!
My favorite part, and this is just me being a total nerd, is that the cake uses an entire standard can of pumpkin. I always appreciate recipes calling for the whole can because you’re not stuck with a random 1/4 cup leftover. (Though it’s so good stirred into oatmeal with a splash of pure maple syrup!)
You need a 9.5 or a 10-inch pan for this pumpkin Bundt cake. This is an affiliate link, but I’m glad to share my favorite Bundt pan with you. Super quality, heavy-duty, great price, never warps, awesome rubber grips. I’ve been using it for years and, honestly, it’s just as durable as day 1.
Pumpkin Bundt Cake Toppings
Like the best things in the kitchen life, we’ll shower this pumpkin Bundt with salted caramel. Even though salted caramel is incredible on its own, it doesn’t hold anything to the delicious pumpkin crumb underneath. And that’s saying a lot!
Other topping options:
- Brown Butter Icing from my Peach Bundt Cake
- Maple Icing from my Maple Cinnamon Rolls
- Chocolate Ganache
- Homemade Whipped Cream
- Brown Sugar Glaze from my Apple Bundt Cake
- Orange Glaze from my Cranberry Orange Bundt Cake
Instead of chocolate chips, this pumpkin Bundt cake would be fantastic with a chai spice swirl.
Pumpkin Bundt Cake
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 65 minutes
- Total Time: 5 hours, 30 minutes
- Yield: serves 12 1x
- Category: Cake
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
This flavorful pumpkin Bundt cake is incredibly moist, perfectly spiced, and dotted with melty chocolate chips. Prefer your pumpkin cake plain? Leave the chocolate chips out!
Ingredients
- 2 and 3/4 cups (344g) all-purpose flour (spoon & leveled)
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 and 1/2 cups dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup (240ml) vegetable oil*
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup (200g) packed light or dark brown sugar
- 3/4 cup (150g) granulated sugar
- 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)*
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- optional topping: salted caramel, brown butter icing, or maple icing
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C) and grease a 9.5 or 10-inch Bundt pan.
- Whisk the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, and chocolate chips together in a large bowl. Set aside. Whisk the oil, eggs, brown sugar, granulated sugar, pumpkin, and vanilla extract together until combined. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and use a mixer or whisk until completely combined. Batter will be thick.
- Bake for 55-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean with just a couple lightly moist crumbs. This is a large, heavy cake so don’t be alarmed if it takes a little longer in your oven.
- Once done, remove from the oven and allow to cool for 2 hours inside the pan. Then, invert the slightly cooled Bundt cake onto a wire rack or serving dish. Allow to cool completely before drizzling with salted caramel (or icing) and serving.
- Cover leftover cake tightly and store at room temperature for a couple days and/or in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Notes
- Make Ahead Instructions: You can make the entire cake ahead of time (before topping with salted caramel or icing). Cover cooled cake and refrigerate for up to 2 days. Bring to room temperature before icing and serving. Baked cake can be frozen up to 3 months. Allow to thaw overnight in the refrigerator and bring to room temperature (if desired) before icing and serving.
- Special Tools: KitchenAid Hand Mixer | Glass Mixing Bowls | Wire Whisk | Bundt Pan
- Spices: Instead of the 1/2 teaspoon of ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice– you can use 2 teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice. (Still add the 2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon.)
- Oil: Instead of 1 cup of oil, try 1/2 cup (90g) unsweetened applesauce and 1/2 (120ml) cup oil. The cake is just as moist.
- Pumpkin: I strongly recommend using canned pumpkin puree over homemade in this recipe, though 2 cups of homemade would work just fine. I found the flavor better with canned. I prefer Libby’s brand for this cake.
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As per the recipe,I left the cake upside down in the pan for 2 hours. It is very brown. It doesn’t look like the bottom of the cake. I can’t taste. It’s for someone else’s Thanksgiving. Should I have left it in the pan right side up? What happens if u don’t cool it in the Bundt pan? Please help me. Thank you.
I’ve contacted you twice today & haven’t heard back. The outside of my Pumpkin Bundt cake is very dark. Is this correct? My earlier posts from today have disappeared.
Hi Terri, we just haven’t had a chance to get to your comment yet – so sorry! If it’s very brown, it may be over-baked. How did you grease the pan? We recommend using a non stick baking spray like pam – using butter can lead to an overly-dark exterior. If you don’t cool the cake in the pan, the cake is much more likely to break when inverting. We recommend cooling in the pan for best results!
This cake is the bomb. Made it twice..
Rave reviews.dont change a thing .
Thank you for such inspiring recipes. I’m a vegan so I like that most of your recipes uses oil. I omit eggs and replace with extra fluid and I turns out marvelous. No one knows there’s no eggs. I tell them afterwards. Made it with eggs and without eggs.
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this was wonderful. No one could figure out what the “secret ingredient” was. I don’t have cloves. nutmeg or allspice but doubled the cinnamon and ginger. It was very well received. thank you for a great recipe that will now become part of my repertoire.
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