Published 9/28/2020 • Updated 3/17/2024
A Perfect Fall Dessert
Fall is here! Time to cue all things pumpkin, including this oh so delicious pumpkin sheet cake that’s topped with a simple 4-ingredient cream cheese frosting. Let’s get into how to make this perfect fall dessert.
How to Make Pumpkin Sheet Cake
This pumpkin sheet cake comes together in 5 simple steps:
Cream Cheese Frosting
This pumpkin sheet cake is topped with the most delicious cream cheese frosting. It’s a 4-ingredient frosting and oh so easy to whip together:
Cool Before Frosting
Allow your pumpkin sheet cake to cool completely before frosting it. Because the frosting has cream cheese and greek yogurt in it, it will become especially runny if you try and frost your cake while it’s still warm.
Get Crazy with Toppings
Feel free to top your frosted cake with any of the fun seasonal toppings we recommend below to really jazz up your cake!
Cream Cheese: Feel free to use nonfat for full-fat. Both work!Plain Nonfat Greek Yogurt: For this recipe, we used nonfat Greek yogurt, but if you’re a full-fat kind of person feel free to use that!Maple Syrup: Maple syrup is our favorite all-natural sweetener, especially for this recipe because it’s warm and sweet!Vanilla Extract: Every dessert recipe deserves a splash of vanilla.
How to Make Cream Cheese Frosting
Our healthy cream cheese frosting recipe only takes 10 minutes to put together! Here’s how to do it: Want some quick tips on how to soften cream cheese? Check out this post from our sister site, The Cheese Knees.
Optional Toppings
This cream cheese frosting is delicious and beautiful on its own, but if you’re looking to really jazz up this pumpkin cake, you go right ahead and sprinkle any of the following on top of your frosted cake:
Dusting of cinnamon or pumpkin pie spiceChopped nutsRoasted pumpkin seedsCandy corn
How to Store Pumpkin Sheet Cake
Because this pumpkin sheet cake is frosted with a cream cheese frosting, it will keep best in the fridge. If your sheet pan has a cover, great! If not, top with aluminum foil or plastic wrap and place in the fridge to store. Enjoy for up to 3 days.
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