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Hawaiian Style Pumpkin Crunch

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Hawaiian
Keyword: butter, cake mix, Cool Whip, cream cheese, pumpkin, walnuts

Ingredients

  • 1 can solid-pack pumpkin 29 oz
  • 1 can evaporated milk 13 oz
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3 eggs slightly beaten
  • ¼ tsp cinnamon
  • 1 box yellow “super moist” cake mix
  • 1 cup walnuts chopped
  • 1 cup butter melted

Frosting

  • 8 oz cream cheese room temperature
  • ½ cup powdered sugar sifted
  • ¾ cup Cool Whip

Instructions

  • Mix pumpkin, evaporated milk, sugar, eggs and cinnamon together.
  • Pour into 9×13” pan lined with waxed paper.
  • Pour 1 box cake mix (dry) over pumpkin mixture and pat nuts on cake mix.
  • Spoon melted butter evenly over nuts.
  • Bake at 350° degrees for 50-60 minutes. Invert onto tray and peel off waxed paper.
  • When slightly cooled, spread frosting on top.

Frosting

  • Beat together cream cheese and powdered sugar. 
  • Fold in cool whip, spread over cake evenly. 

Notes

Offered on the Holo Holo Charter's blog. This is the tour company that took us to the Na Pali coast and snorkeling, where I swam with a sea turtle.