89 Reviews of Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake (Paula Deen)

From: NoCookDonna

On Nov 30, 2005

I haven't made one of these yet, but a woman I work with made some (She made enough for each of us other women to bring home with us) for our company Thanksgiving Dinner and it was delicious. I did not realize the same recipe was on here until after I had asked her for it. Hers does have some notes on variations that I thought some of you might be interested in: 1. Pineapple Gooey Butter Cake - Substitute one 20 oz can of crushed pineapple, drained thoroughly, to the cream cheese filling & proceed as directed. 2. Banana Gooey Butter Cake: Prepare cream cheese filling as directed, beating in 2 ripe bananas instead of pumpkin. Proceed as directed. 3. Peanut Butter Gooey Butter Cake: Use a chocolate cake mis for the crust. Add 2 cup creamy peanut butter to the cream cheese filling instead of pumpkin. Proceed as directed above. Thanks Yooper for entering this recipe on Za'ar.

From: ratherbeswimmin'

On Dec 30, 2003

I made this for Christmas dinner and it was so incredibly good. I baked mine for 45 minutes and it was just right. Deliciously rich and gooey. There wasn't one crumb left by the end of the day. Thanks for posting, yooper.

From: beckas

On Nov 22, 2003

This cake was wonderful. We liked it much better than pumpkin pie. The bottom turned out chewy like a brownie and the top was creamy. The cake had a slight butterscotch flavor to it. I used pumpkin pie filling and omitted the nutmeg. The cake turned out a little too sweet for my taste but that's my fault because I didn't reduce the amount of powdered sugar to compensate for the sugar in the pumpkin pie filling. DH took some of this to work and his coworkers raved. Three people asked him for the recipe.

From: Sharon123

On Dec 17, 2003

I made this for Thanksgiving and got raves from my guests. I am making it for gifts for some of my husband's friends. Thanks for posting!

From: Bogey'sMom

On Nov 15, 2003

This recipe is from a very recent episode of Paula Deen's show on Food Network. She has a basic recipe for Butter Gooey Cakes, and this is one of the variations. I made it the week it aired - I believe it was her Halloween show and it truly is a 5 star recipe. Very, very rich.

From: barbacious

On Jul 15, 2003

This would be good for Thanksgiving in place of a pumpkin pie. For step 2, I would reccomend using a food processor. For step 3, there is no pouring this, I had to press it into the pan. Overall it is a keeper.

From: nvermd

On May 23, 2004

This was like heaven for pumpkin lover me! It was sweet and delicious!

From: chilepepper1231

On Nov 28, 2003

Made this twice so far and it is delicious. I only bake 40 minutes second time and it was better than when I did it the whole 50. More gooey and yummy. Had to pass this one on 3 times already.

From: JanetC-KY

On Jun 27, 2004

What can I add that hasn't been said? This is really good; like pumpkin pie, yet not quite the same. I added more spice to mine is about the only change I made...good recipe

From: lilbitgabby

On Jan 14, 2005

This was so good! I made this for my father in law's birthday and everybody loved it! Even the kids that wouldn't usually eat pumpkin pie. I had several requests for the recipe. Thanks for sharing this recipe!