Better Than Sex Pumpkin Cake

Adapted from sweetpeaskitchen.com

This Better Than Sex Cake Pumpkin Cake is the best pumpkin cake recipe you’ll ever make. There’s only a handful of ingredients, so it’s easy to make, and it’ll impress everyone you know!

We’re well into fall here in the States. I think at this point we might as well just rename fall as “pumpkin season” as that’s all you see and hear about everywhere from September until Thanksgiving. As a pumpkin lover, this is one of my favorite times of the year, and I’ve been busy in the kitchen coming up with the best pumpkin recipes and have lately been on the hunt for the best recipe for a pumpkin poke cake with sweetened condensed milk.

Pumpkin better than sex cake is hands down, the best pumpkin dessert I’ve ever made. It’s rich, sweet and delicious and since it’s made with box cake mix, it’s so easy to make.

Since I’m all about keeping things easy, I knew the better than sex cake with pumpkin would be one that was not entirely made from scratch, but there was no way I was just grabbing a pumpkin cake mix (do they even make those???) and calling it a day.

Better Than Sex Pumpkin Cake:

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Instead, I decided to take some inspiration from my favorite pumpkin spice flavor and start this Better Than Sex Pumpkin Cake Recipe with a boxed spice cake mix. The spices in spice cake mix are actually similar to those you use to make pumpkin spice which happens also to be pumpkin pie spice mix. The added pumpkin flavor comes from the can of pumpkin puree.

Those two flavors combined make one delicious recipe for a pumpkin cake, but I wanted to take it a step further for the BEST pumpkin cake recipe and turn this into a pumpkin poke cake with sweetened condensed milk and add a cream cheese frosting and surprise topping.

Once this was completed and I tried a bite, there indeed was no name for it other than better than sex cake because, yes, it IS that good. You’ll understand once you try a piece!

Pumpkin Cake Variations:

I love that you can do all sorts of different things with this better than sex cake with pumpkin and I can’t wait to share these ideas. Try them all to figure out which way is your favorite! (They all taste fantastic!)

Caramel – Drizzle caramel with on top of the poke cake when you put on the sweetened condensed milk. Then add a little bit more caramel on top of the frosting. Seriously so decadent and rich.

Snickers – Don’t have Heath bars? No problem, just crush up some Snickers bars and sprinkle on top!
Nuts – Add in some walnuts, pecans, or crushed peanuts to the cake batter. You can also add some on top before serving too.
Cinnamon – Skip the candy bars altogether and sprinkle the frosting with some cinnamon for a garnish. It adds a little bit of flavor and looks so pretty.
Chocolate – Toss in some mini chocolate chips in the cake batter. Chocolate and pumpkin are a match made in food heaven! Yummy!
White Cake Mix – If you don’t have a spice cake mix on hand, that’s totally fine! You can use a white or yellow cake mix instead. You don’t have to add in any spices, but if you wanted to, you could add in 1/2 teaspoon of allspice, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Then it will have that spicy flavor you are looking for.
Raisins – If you love raisins, then you should toss in 1/2 cup of raisins to the cake batter. It adds a tastiness and texture that it’s hard not to devour.
Craisins – While similar to raisins, craisins are extra sweet and just make all kinds of recipes taste better. Give it a try because I am sure you will love this pumpkin dessert even more.

Do You Refrigerate Pumpkin Cake?

Yes, you need to refrigerate this pumpkin better than sex cake. Due to the cool whip and cream cheese in the frosting, this pumpkin dessert will have to be refrigerated, or it will go bad. The pumpkin poke cake with sweetened condensed milk will last 5-6 days in the fridge.

Ingredients:

1 box spice cake mix
1 15 oz can pumpkin puree
1 14 oz sweetened condensed milk
2 8 oz thawed cool whip
1 8 oz softened cream cheese
1 C powdered sugar
1 C crushed heath bars