Pumpkin Cake
MY VERSION OF A PUMPKIN
SHAPED HALLOWEEN CAKE:
Cake is a Butter Pecan cake out of the box. Just cook it in a bunt pan following the recipe on the box. When the cake is finished cooking, place the pan on a cooling rack for 10 minutes and then dump cake out on cooling rack to finish cooling. Frosting consists of 5 cups confectioners sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 box cream cheese. Red, yellow and green food coloring. Mix the butter and cream cheese thoroughly (make sure you let the butter and cream cheese get to room temp, soften). Gradually add confectioner’s sugar 1 cup at a time on low speed. Once the frosting is mixed together. Place 1 cup of frosting in a separate bowl and add green food coloring. Place in refrigerator for about 30 minutes while the cake is cooling. Place 1 cup of frosting in a separate bowl and add yellow food coloring – this would be used to make the face with. Place that bowl in the refrigerator as well for 30 minutes. Drop 2-3 drops of red food coloring and 3-5 drops yellow food coloring in remaining frosting and mix thoroughly. This will be the orange for your pumpkin. Frost the cooled cake with the orange frosting. Take a green ice cream cone and cover it with the green frosting (If you can’t find a green ice cream cone, use any color). Make sure that you leave space at the bottom of the cone without frosting so that you can pick up the cone and place it in the middle of the cake. I placed 1 cone standing up in the middle and put a little frosting around the circle on the top of the cone and turned the other one that was frosted open faced on top of it. I slightly leaned the top cone. Cut a very tiny hole in the corner of a regular sized zip baggie and put the green frosting in this bag. Pipe the green on all of the humps of the cake from the middle to the bottom on the outside of the cake. Cut a very tiny hole in another baggie and place the yellow frosting in this baggie. Make a face on one side of the cake. You can also use any kind of candy to make eyes and teeth. I had some jelly beans that I used. This is a fun holiday treat for Halloween or Thanksgiving. Hope you enjoy it with your family. Use your imagination. REFRIGERATE CAKE (I used red instead of yellow to make the face because I didn’t think yellow would show up, but it will)
