Food Gifts - The easiest pumpkin spice cake in the world

This recipe is accidentally vegan. An elderly woman at the grocery store gave it to my mom as a "thank you" for helping her get a product off of the shelves. Since then it's been my favorite pumpkin spice cake and I make it about 47 times every year between the months on October and January. Because it's so pretty, tasty and festive, this cake makes a fantastic present as well. Do you know what the best part is, though?

 

It has 2 ingredients.

Spice cake mix (most are vegan, just check the ingredients)

1 can of pumpkin puree (or equal amounts of homemade puree)

 

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and beat the two ingredients together in a large bowl.

Pour (or actually scoop, it's a pretty thick batter) into whatever pans you are using and bake until a toothpick comes out clean.

  

I used these adorable mini loaf pans I found. With the extra batter I made some muffins to snack on. The mini loaves baked for just over 30 minutes and the muffins took exactly 20 minutes to bake.

You can also bake the cake in a bundt pan and garnish with little stars made from homemade apple leather. Just spread some applesauce out on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet and bake at 200 degrees until it's solid and fairly dry. Then use a knife or cookie cutters to make shapes.

This is seriously the easiest holiday present you'll give this year, I promise you.