Hello, Susan from Love of Home here with you on this beautiful Friday! I love homemade gifts, and food is one of my favorite things to give. I have a sweet recipe to share with you today that is perfect for fall – Pecan Pumpkin Mini Bundt Cakes. I also created a chalkboard label printable just for you!
I picked up a mini bundt pan at Michael’s in the baking aisle {using a 50% off coupon} along with some cute boxes & plaid papers. I like to have options when I’m wrapping so I bought both knowing that they will get used sooner or later!
This mini pecan pumpkin bundt cake makes the perfect fall dessert and is easy to whip up!
- Yellow cake mix
- Small box vanilla instant pudding
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup oil
- ½ cup water
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 can of pumpkin puree
- ½ cup chopped pecans
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1 cup confectioner sugar
- Sprinkles if desired
- Heat oven to 325.
- Put all ingredients in one bowl and mix for about three minutes on medium speed.
- Spray bundt pan generously with non-stick cooking spray, you can lightly flour as well. This will insure the cakes won't stick.
- Fill each about halfway.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes until toothpick comes out nearly clean.
- Let cool for 5 minutes before turning out onto a baking rack. Cool completely.
- Mix the milk ad confectioner sugar to make the glaze and drizzle over the mini cakes. Add sprinkles if desired.
- Makes 12 mini cakes.
I added one mini cake to each of the boxes and the rest to the cute plaid paper holders. The boxes got ribbon tied with the labels. The paper holder wrapped cakes went into food safe cello bags tied with ribbon and the tag.
DOWNLOAD THE GRATEFUL FOR YOU TAGS HERE
I loaded them into a pretty basket and the kids and I headed out to give them to our neighbors, friends and family. These would be darling favors for your Thanksgiving guests or make thoughtful hostess gifts for any fall get-together.
We often bake and deliver things for no special reason. I like the kids to see you don’t need a reason to be thoughtful or do something to brighten someone’s day. It’s become a tradition with our family and I hope they pass it along to theirs someday.
Stop by Love of Home to see what else I up to! A big thank you to Jenn for giving me the opportunity to be here with you!
For more awesome food gift ideas, check out these posts…
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Love these Susan! They are adorable!
Thank you Alice!
Love these Susan…so cute! They are going to be my Thanksgiving favors, great idea!! Thanks for sharing and for the printable!
Thank you SO much Tracy!! You’re so sweet!
GORGEOUS!!! I’m making these for sure! And I adore the way you packaged them!!! You are so creative. Thanks for the wonderful idea!
Thank you Yvonne!!
These little bundt cakes look amazing and soubd delicious Susan. You know, Ausies use pumpkin as a vegetable, so I’m fairly new to using it in my baking, but this definitely looks like an easy recipe the whole family will enjoy.
Way too cute Susan!
Very pretty and such a great gifting idea, Susan!
Those look delicious! Love that you bring them to your neighbors for no particular reason.
These look so delicious and I bet they smell amazing too!! Love the packaging!
How cute, and what a wonderful way to bring a smile to someone’s day!
Cannot wait to try this out Susan. Thank you
Hope you like it!
What size can of pumpkin did you use – 15 oz or 29 oz?
15 oz. 🙂
Where did you get the paper holders?
From Michaels. 🙂 I’m sure they’d have them on Amazon too under baking wrapping and packaging.
What size bundt pan did you use? I have Wilton with 12 cavities but they look a lot smaller than what these are.
This one had 6 cavities so, yes, they are bigger. 🙂
Hi there. I was wondering if I could use a normal bundt cake pan for this recipe? I’ve been requested to bake it but for a whole affair (not individuals cakes). Would this recipe work for a normal bundt pan?
Thanks so much
Yes it would work, but the baking time would likely be more. You’d just have to check frequently towards the end to see when it’s done.
Thank you so much for the response. I think I will make a test run to see how it goes.
You did not specify 1/2 cup or teaspoon or tablespoon of water?
Oh sorry! It’s 1/2 cup. I edited the recipe. 🙂
What a cute idea! Such a great combination of flavors too! Delicious!
So so yummy, and so cute to gift – thank you!