INGREDIENTS:
Cake
2 boxes (1 lb 2.25 oz each) yellow cake mix with pudding
Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix boxes
Frosting and Decoration
1/2 teaspoon orange paste icing color (not liquid food color)
2 containers (1 lb each) vanilla creamy ready-to-spread frosting
1 flat-bottom ice cream cone
1/2 cup dark chocolate or chocolate creamy ready-to-spread frosting (from 1-lb container)
2 green candy-coated chocolate baking bits
2 pieces candy corn
4 lime wedge candy jellies
DIRECTIONS:
1. Heat oven to 350°F (if using dark or nonstick pans, heat oven to 325°F). Grease 12-cup fluted tube (bundt cake) pan with shortening; lightly flour. In large bowl, beat 1 cake mix, 1 1/4 cups water, 1/3 cup oil and 3 eggs with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds or until blended. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour batter into pan.
2. Bake 39 to 44 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake 15 minutes. Remove from pan; place on cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Repeat for second cake, using remaining cake mix, water, oil and eggs.
3. Stir 1/4 teaspoon of the orange paste icing color into each container of vanilla frosting. To make pumpkin shape, place 1 cake, rounded side down, on serving plate (if necessary, trim cakes to form flat surfaces). Spread top with 1/3 cup orange frosting. Place second cake, rounded side up, on top of first cake. Frost both cakes with remaining orange frosting.
4. Frost outside of ice cream cone with 1/3 cup of the chocolate frosting. In small resealable food-storage plastic bag, place remaining cup chocolate frosting; seal bag. Cut tiny hole in one bottom corner of bag. Squeeze bag to draw eyes, nose and mouth on pumpkin with frosting. Add baking bits for irises of eyes and candy corn for teeth.
5. Insert frosted cone in center of cake to form pumpkin stem. With knife, cut leaf shapes from fruit snack roll; place near stem. To serve cake, cut slices from top cake before cutting bottom cake.
Posted by Pillsbury.com on 2010-10-01 16:32:41
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