Pinterest Challenge #31 - Pumpkin Cake

September has been a time of pumpkin in the Cupp household.  When I saw the recipe on Pinterest for Cinnamon Roll Pumpkin Vanilla Sheet Cake I quickly pinned it and waited for an opportunity to make this recipe when friends came over.  In no way did I want this big cake to be eaten by our family of 3.  Here's the ingredients:

1 box butter cake mix
4 eggs
1/2 cup of oil
1/2 cup of greek yogurt
1/2 cup of milk
3/4 ounce box of vanilla instant pudding mix
1 can of pumpkin
1 stick of butter
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
3/4 cup of brown sugar
1/4 cup of milk
3/4 of powdered sugar

Now that you see the ingredients, you can understand why I didn't want to make this cake for just our family.  That's a lot of stuff in there!  Okay, here are the steps:

1.  Spray your 9 by 13 pan with cooking spray and preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2.  Use a mixer to beat the cake mix, eggs, oil, yogurt, milk, pudding, and pumpkin until creamy.  Spread this in the pan.
3.  Melt the butter in a bowl and mix in the brown sugar and cinnamon.  Drizzle it over the 'raw' cake and swirl it with a fork or knife.
4.  Bake for 30 minutes until cooked.
5.  While the cake is baking, mix together the powdered sugar and milk.  Once the cake is removed from the oven, drizzle the milk/sugar mixture on top of the cake.

My cake (as you can see by the above picture) came out of the oven looking like a topographical map - complete with lots of mountains and valleys.  If I make it again and it comes out looking the same, I will call it the Grand Canyon cake.

We reheated each piece just before we ate it and put a spoonful of Cool Whip on top.  Oh my, it was so good!