Pumpkin Peekaboo Cake

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This Pumpkin Peekaboo Cake looks like a classic vanilla pound cake from the outside, but slice it open to reveal a hidden pumpkin shaped center made of pumpkin flavored cake! Perfect for fall parties, Halloween, or Thanksgiving. 

Lately I’ve been seeing all these adorable cakes with pictures in them.  They look like a regular pound cake then whenever they are cut open there is a shape of some type in another color inside.  Since my family was coming to visit I thought it would be fun to try and make one of these.

While I was a little worried about the time this recipe would take the good thing about it is that it uses two cake mixes so the ingredients are very simple.   You can make the cakes as directed or you can doctor them up so they taste a little more homemade.

I have many recipes that start with a cake mix and go from there.  One of my most popular ones is Cake Mix Biscotti because you can use any flavor of cake mix to make these cookies!  You can’t go wrong with these colorful Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies.  I even make Apple Spice Cake Mix Waffles for breakfast.

How do you doctor a cake mix?

There are a few easy swaps that you can make in your cakes mixes.  These include:

• Using butter in place of the oil
• Using milk in place of the water
• Add an extra egg
• Add in vanilla extract
• Add a small box of pudding mix in a flavor that compliments the cake flavor.

I looked through my cookie cutters and decided on making a pumpkin since it’s fall and I had a pumpkin cookie cutter.  The cake was easier to make then I thought it would be. 

The only difficulty I had was cutting out the pumpkin shape because the stems kept getting cut off.  Otherwise this is a cake that almost anyone could make.

You simply need two colors or two flavors of cake mix.   Since the pumpkin spice cake mix was already orange I didn’t need to use a lot of food coloring.  If you are using the same flavored box then you will want to use food coloring for at least one of the cakes. 

It turned out super cute and everyone was impressed with the pumpkin in the middle of the pound cake.  I’m going to try this cake again with a Christmas shape in it for the holidays.  You can really use any flavor of cakes and any shape inside depending on the occasion.

Pumpkin Peekaboo Cake

This cake looks like a classic vanilla pound cake from the outside, but slice it open to reveal a hidden pumpkin shaped center made of pumpkin flavored cake!

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Prep Time: 25 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes

Chilling Time:: 2 hours hours

Total Time: 3 hours hours 55 minutes minutes

Servings: 12 servings

Author: Hezzi-D

Equipment

• 1 loaf pan
• 1 Mixing Bowl
• pumpkin cookie cutters

Ingredients

• 1 box pumpkin bread mix
• 1 box pound cake mix
• All ingredients to make the bread and cake
• Orange food coloring

Instructions

• Mix the pumpkin bread according to the package directions. Add in a few drops of orange food coloring and mix well.
• Bake the bread in a 9 x 5 loaf pan. Bake according to the package directions, pulling the bread out of the oven 5 minutes earlier then the directions state.
• Allow the bread to cool completely. Remove from the loaf pan and refrigerate for 2 hours.
• Take the cold pumpkin bread out of the refrigerator, cut into large slices, and cut into pumpkin shapes.
• Place the pumpkin shapes in the middle of a 9 x 5 loaf pan.
• Mix the pound cake mix according to the package directions. Pour over top of the pumpkins in the loaf pan, making sure to completely cover the pumpkins.
• Bake the pound cake according to the package directions. Cool complete and remove from pan.
• Cut into slices and enjoy.

Notes

Recipe from She Knows