These pumpkin-shaped mini bundt cakes are made with cake mix and topped with cream cheese frosting for an easy fall dessert. Decorated with orange icing and a cinnamon stick stem, they’re a fun treat for Halloween, Thanksgiving, or any autumn celebration.

Make pumpkin-shaped mini bundt cakes with cake mix and cream cheese frosting. Easy fall dessert idea perfect for Halloween or Thanksgiving.

More easy fall treats: [Pumpkin Patch Dirt Pudding Cups] · [Cheese-Stuffed Pumpkin-Shaped Crescent Rolls] · [Pumpkin Spice Latte] · [Best Canned Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips]

Recipe Inspiration

My favorite season has always been fall! I love the crisp, cool air, the changing leaves, and of course, the flavors of pumpkin and warm, cozy spices…plus, my birthday is in October, so that automatically makes fall the best! 🙂

During the summer months, I’m outside non-stop tending to my tomato garden or at the baseball diamond. However, once the weather starts to change and I shift to more indoor activities, I love spending my days making Fall Crafts & DIY Projects and baking the Best Pumpkin Recipes and sipping on Pumpkin Coffee Cold Foam drinks!

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Pumpkin Cold Foam Recipe | Gathered In The Kitchen

In today’s recipe, I’m sharing how I made pumpkin-shaped mini bundt cakes using boxed carrot cake mix and canned cream cheese frosting. The flavors were delightful and the final product was oh-so cute! *be sure to see my video tutorial below!

But if you know me, I have a short attention span to things that take a long time…I like things that look complicated or hard but actually were super easy. These pumpkin cupcakes were just that! Seriously, they couldn’t have been any easier to make!

Pumpkin Bundt Cake Ingredients and Supplies

boxed carrot cake mix
canned cream cheese frosting
eggs
vegetable oil
water
yellow and red food coloring
piping bag and tip
mini silicone bundt pan

Instructions: Pumpkin Mini Bundts with Cream Cheese Frosting

1) Mix and bake mini bundt cakes using cake mix

Prepare the boxed cake mix with eggs, oil, and water, then bake in silicone mini bundt pans according to package directions.

Spooning cake batter into silicone mini bundt cake pans to make pumpkin-shaped bundt cakes with boxed cake mix. | Gathered In The Kitchen

2) Tint cream cheese frosting orange with food coloring

Stir red and yellow food coloring into canned cream cheese frosting until it reaches a bright pumpkin orange.

Mixing red food coloring into cream cheese frosting to create orange icing for pumpkin-shaped mini bundt cakes. | Gathered In The Kitchen

3) Assemble and frost the cakes to look like pumpkins

Spread or pipe frosting between two mini bundt cakes, stack them together, and cover the outside with orange frosting.

Piping cream cheese frosting onto a mini bundt cake before assembling into pumpkin-shaped cakes with cinnamon stick stems. | Gathered In The Kitchen

4) Add a cinnamon stick stem for the finishing touch

Place a cinnamon stick in the center hole to create a realistic pumpkin stem.

Frosted pumpkin-shaped mini bundt cakes decorated with orange icing and cinnamon stick stems on a fall plate. | Gathered In The Kitchen

Video Tutorial

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