When it comes to holiday desserts we love a show stopper! This Pumpkin Spice Piecaken recipe is easy, flavorful and absolutely amazing, you have to make it!
Ok here is an honest and simple question for you, have you ever had piecaken? Or here is another question, have you ever heard of piecaken? Well if the answer to either of those questions is no, then you are seriously missing out.
We’ve been making piecaken recipes for years and we cant get enough. So what is a piecaken you may ask, well a piecaken is a whole pie that is baked inside of a cake. Kind of like the turducken, but for the dessert world.
Last year I shared with you my Chocolate Pecan Piecaken recipe which is a pecan pie that is baked inside a moist chocolate cake and topped with a rich and creamy chocolate ganache.
That recipe will always be hard to beat, but this Pumpkin Spice Piecaken is a true competitor with the creamy and silky pumpkin pie baked into a delicious spice cake and topped with a pumpkin spice icing. You guys, this is one addicting cake….or pie.
WHAT INGREDIENTS DO YOU NEED?
- Spice cake mix
- Milk
- Butter
- Eggs
- Pumpkin pie
- Powdered sugar
- Heavy Cream
- Pumpkin pie spice
That ingredients list is short, and if you haven’t already realized it, thats the way we like to keep it around here. Now this dessert looks like it would be complicated, but it truly isn’t.
We doctor up our cake mix slightly to make it a little more rich and creamy and dense so it is able to whole all the pie goodness inside.
You can use a store bough bakery 9″ or 10″ pie which we do usually or you can make your own homemade, but I would make sure that it is chilled first.
Chilling the pie makes it easier to turn upside down in the pan, but it is okay if you pie does crack when you insert it into the pan. That cake batter acts like glue and presses any cracked pieces back together and there isn’t any issues if that does happen.
HOW DO YOU MAKE PIECAKEN?
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Spray a 10″ springform pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- In large bowl mix together cake mix, milk, butter and eggs until combined.
- Spread half of your cake mixture into bottom of prepared pan.
- Place pie facedown into pan so the bottom of the pie points up.
- Spread remaining cake batter on top of pie and spread out covering the whole thing.
- Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes covering with tinfoil after about 45 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and let cool.
- To make glaze whisk together your powdered sugar, pumpkin pie spice and heavy cream until you reach desired consistency and spread over cooled cake, cut and serve.
If you are a pumpkin spice fan then this piecaken is literally the one holiday dessert that you need. Not only because I’m addicted to it, but because it really is just that good.
There are so many fun piecaken combinations that you could make such as this, the chocolate pecan, apple spice, chocolate cherry, chocolate pumpkin, etc. There really isn’t a combination that you cant put together as long as you like it.
So if you’re looking for a fun holiday dessert this season, this pumpkin spice piecaken is the one dessert that will get everyone talking and falling in love.
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Pumpkin Spice Piecaken
Ingredients
- 1 18 oz box spice cake
- 1 1/4 cup milk
- 1 cup butter melted
- 4 eggs
- 1 9 or 10" pumpkin pie bakery or fresh baked and cooled
Glaze:
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 5-6 Tbs heavy cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Spray a 10" springform pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- In large bowl mix together cake mix, milk, butter and eggs until combined.
- Spread half of your cake mixture into bottom of prepared pan.
- Place pie facedown into pan so the bottom of the pie points up.
- Spread remaining cake batter on top of pie and spread out covering the whole thing.
- Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes covering with tinfoil after about 45 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and let cool.
- To make glaze whisk together your powdered sugar, pumpkin pie spice and heavy cream until you reach desired consistency and spread over cooled cake, cut and serve.
Nutrition
Tornadough Alli is not a nutritionist or dietitian, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and nutritional value is important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and values can vary depending on which brands were used.
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Wendy Miller
This was a fantastic dessert with both of my favorites!
SHARYN BAY
I made this cake for Thanksgiving. It was the biggest hit on my dessert parade list. It was just wonderful.When I am cooking for the holidays I do two things. Cook foods that don’t take to much time to prepare and I always introduce one new dish the family hasn’t had before. This dish was my choice for this year. It was great I am going to make it again and again. The hidden surprise in the middle just wowed the kids. The taste wowed us all. Thank you for making my Thanksgiving dinner a big hit, Happy Holidays to you and yours.
I rate this 100 5 its just no good enough
Tornadough Alli
This is the best! I’m so happy that you loved it! We love doing “untraditional” desserts and this one is a fun one. If you’re looking for one like this for Christmas we have a Chocolate Pecan Piecaken as well that is just as good! Thank you so much for the kind comment!
Carmella
Hello.
Do you use a pie that is already baked? Your do you use a pie that needs to be baked?
Tornadough Alli
The pie is already baked in this recipe.
T.J.
HI, your pumpkin spice piecaken looks fantastic. My question is, it looks as though before you frosted you flipped the piecaken so the pie top is actually at the top, not the bottom on top as when put together. How long did you cool before flipping out over? I am planning on making this for Thanksgiving.
Thank you.
Tornadough Alli
I would let it cool probably 10-15 minutes. I’m sure you can make it where you can put the pumpkin pie just in normally and not flip it, but we have always flipped it because the way the cake bakes and how it encases the pie, there is more cake on the “bottom” after flipping so this is how we have always done it.
Aimee Shugarman
I’m obsessed with this cheesecake!
Sandy
I’ve been looking all over for a recipe like this. This is delicious!
Ashley F
This is a Thanksgiving favorite! The best of both worlds!
Rachael Yerkes
Oh my word, this is perfection in every bite!
Julie Blanner
Wow! Never seen anything like it! Looks so good and love the pretty layers!