This Pumpkin Churro Layer Cake is a taste of the carnival in Fall form! Layers of moist pumpkin cake are dipped in melted butter, coated in cinnamon sugar and sandwiched between layers of cream cheese frosting.

I want to start off by apologizing for this cake.

Mainly I want to apologize to your butt. And maybe your hips or thighs? Because none of them stand a chance.

Sorry friends, just speaking the truth into your lives. This cake is a legit life changer. And a butt changer.

Wait, that sounded weird. You know what I mean.

You know those desserts where after you make it, you can’t stop thinking about when you’re going to get to eat it? Like a weird fatal attraction to a dessert?

That happens when you make this cake. You make it and then you are just dying inside until it’s time to cut into it. Because once it’s been cut into, it ain’t no thang to shave off a hunk for lunch the next day.

Also, can we talk about why there is such a stigma attached to serving a partially eaten cake for dessert? Who cares if a piece is missing, right? Can we just write a new set of rules that makes it okay to eat a piece of cake prior to serving it to everyone else?

I mean, it’s pumpkin cake dipped in melted butter and cinnamon sugar – if there is a way you can say no to this, please come over and contend with my toddler because you obviously possess superhuman mental strength. So just eat it. Don’t wait on anyone else. Matter of fact, don’t even share it. Sharing is for losers, that’s what I always say.

And by always, I mean never. I have two kids, so I have literally shared my uterus twice. They don’t even blink when it comes to my dessert — Lucy been known to shove her entire hand into a glass of my iced tea, so.

To make this cake you just whip up three layers of the best pumpkin cake ever, dip it in melted Challenge Butter, and then coat each layer in cinnamon sugar. The top, bottom, sides…all of it.

I am a Challenge Butter Ambassador, which I mention every time I get. Because hello, Butter Ambassador. I feel like I should have some kind of embassy or maybe immunity to the law, but really I just get to use the most incredible butter ever and then talk about it, which is even better.

Challenge Butter is truly the best tasting butter I’ve tried AND it’s from California cows NOT treated with the growth horomont rBST. Raising two kiddos I try to avoid any food from animals treated with hormones, so this is perfect for us!

Challenge also makes the creamiest cream cheese, which I used in the fluffy layers of cream cheese frosting. I highly recommend it!

Enjoy! I think you’ll love this cake!

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This Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bundt Cake combines moist, flavorful pumpkin cake with a surprise cheesecake layer running through it!

Have you ever decided to quietly sneak back into your bedroom with a glass of wine and a book to see if your husband will take it upon himself to get your children ready for bed?

I am slightly (and only slightly — pride is not a thing that I cling to in my old age) ashamed to admit that it’s one of my very favorite games. Sometimes I even make wagers with myself — if the kids are still up 30 minutes past their bedtime, I pour another glass of wine and open a box of Sour Patch Kids. An hour past? I move on to more substantial candies, like chocolate, and possibly a bit of light shopping on Amazon.

It’s kind of like the casino, but forty trillion times better, and also in my pajamas and a sheet mask.

It’s surprisingly easy to sneak off to my bedroom because once my husband is done for the day, it’s like he’s only operating on half a brain. Of course, my toddler goes into overdrive in the evening, her psychotic and sometimes belligerent energy compensating for her exhaustion by about 259 percent. My son knows that reminding me of his presence will ensure a timely bedtime, so he leaves me alone. So basically…a quiet retreat shortly before bedtime is pretty ideal, except for the fact that husbands seem to be allergic to making kids go to bed.

I don’t understand it. Are they not driving you crazy?! I’ve asked my husband this question more than once, and he simply shrugs. As it turns out, I’ve underestimated his ability to tune things out. Apparently his brain is able to focus so intensely on American Ninja Warrior that our toddler’s shrill screams as she Geronimo’s off the couch are completely unheard. They bounce right off of him like he’s sitting in an invisible force field bubble.

Y’all…WHAT IS THIS POWER? And how can I come to possess it?

A thick slice of this cake (cold from the fridge — my favorite) was my recent reward for successfully hiding from my children. I’d say that I’m sorry, but Bachelor in Paradise is too good and life is too short. Pop on an oversized t-shirt, pull those wool socks up to your knees, and settle in bed with a plate of this Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bundt and a nice (but inexpensive — we aren’t rich around here) white. It’s the very best kind of evening.

This moist pumpkin cake is covered in a layer of tangy and cinnamon-ey cream cheese glaze, and a thick cheesecake layer runs throughout. It’s gorgeous to slice into and tastes like a dream.

It’s the perfect cake for Fall! Make it ASAP!

Enjoy, friends! Have a very happy Monday!