Pumpkin Honey Bun Cake

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Pumpkin Honey Bun Cake is an easy and delicious fall cake recipe similar to honey bun cake. Pumpkin cake is filled with brown sugar and pumpkin spice walnut filling and topped with a sweet glaze, a recreation of traditional honey bun snack cake. Similar to the viral TikTok Honey Bun Cake recipe!

Growing up honey bun cakes were all the rage and this recipe is a spin-off of those snack cakes, but a fall version for the pumpkin lovers. If you love honey bun snack cakes you’ll love this pumpkin honey bun cake from cake mix!

Pumpkin Honey Bun Cake

To make your pumpkin honey bun cake you’ll need a few ingredients such as:

• Yellow Bow Cake Mix
• Pumpkin Puree
• Chopped Walnuts (you can leave these out or switch for another nut like pecans)
• Brown Sugar, packed
• Oil (vegetable or canola is best. You can also substitute melted butter)
• Sour Cream or Plain Yogurt
• 4 Eggs
• 3 Teaspoons Pumpkin Pie Spice
• Powdered Sugar
• Milk

How to Make Pumpkin Honey Bun Cake

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Spray a 9×13 cake pan with nonstick spray and set
aside.

Combine the cake mix, pumpkin puree, oil, sour cream, eggs, and pumpkin pie spice in
a large mixing bowl. Use a hand mixer to mix for about 1-2 minutes or fully combined.

Pour half of the mixture into your prepared cake pan.

Sprinkle the top of the cake layer with the chopped walnuts and then sprinkle the brown
sugar over the top of the walnuts. Keep it even. If you want to leave the walnuts out you can.

Pour the rest of the batter over the top of the cake and bake for 35-40 minutes or until a
toothpick comes out clean.

Remove from the oven and let cool for about 20 minutes.

In a small bowl, stir together the powdered sugar and milk for the glaze.

Once the cake is cool enough to where it won’t melt your glaze and make it disappear,
drizzle the entire top of the cake with the glaze.

Slice, serve, and enjoy!

Tips & Tricks for Making Pumpkin Honey Bun Cake

If you want more glaze, simply double your glaze mixture. It’s a sweet cake, so a word of
warning that extra glaze may be extra sweet.

You can use a white cake mix in place of the yellow.

You can use plain yogurt or plain greek yogurt in place of the sour cream. Greek yogurt
makes it a bit denser, but it’s still divine.

I have used a butter knife in place of a toothpick for checking the doneness of the cake
and it worked just as well.

Be sure to not put the glaze on too early or it will disappear. If the cake is too hot, it
just melts the glaze. So, you can still taste it, just not see it. Add the glaze when the cake is almost all the way cooled down, but warm. This allows the glaze to seep into the cake and drip over the top.

Instead of the glaze, you can drizzle some caramel sauce over the top or in addition to the glaze.

You can hand mix the cake portion, but it always leaves lumps that take forever to get rid
of. So, a hand mixer makes things much faster and smoother.