It's The Great Pumpkin Dessert!

When I first saw this recipe for Great Pumpkin Dessert, it made me think of the Halloween classic It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.  (Yes, my mind works funny like that sometimes.)  Poor Linus waited in the pumpkin patch all night, but he never saw The Great Pumpkin.  We'll never know if it really exists!  I can tell you that The Great Pumpkin---Dessert does exist.  Here it is!

Sorry, Linus, but pumpkins were killed in the making of this dessert. 

Ingredients (printable recipe)
1 (15 oz.) can pumpkin puree
1 (12 fl. oz.) can evaporated milk
3 eggs
1 cup white sugar
4 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1 (18.25 oz.) box yellow cake mix
3/4 cup butter, melted
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl combine pumpkin, milk, eggs, sugar and spice. Mix well and pour into a 9x13 pan. Sprinkle dry cake mix over top. Drizzle melted butter on top of cake mix. Top with chopped pecans. Bake for 1 hour or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.

Adapted slightly from Allrecipes

The pecans roasted on top while baking and they were sooooooooo delicious!

The Results...
Better than getting a rock in your trick-or-treat bag.  (If you don't get it---go watch the show!)

Much Much Much Better!

This is kind of a unique dessert.  The best way I can describe it is........if a pumpkin pie and a coffee cake got married, this would be their baby.  A sweet, sweet baby that would be loved by everyone!  That's the best I can do.  I guess you'll just have to make this and see for yourself. :)

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