Jack-O-Lantern Cake
- 1 pkg. yellow cake mix
- 3/4 c. pumpkin
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 can orange frosting or use white frosting and orange food color
- green and black gumdrops
- Prepare batter according to package directions but use 1/2 cup less water then called for.
- Fold in pumpkin and cinnamon.
- Pour batter evenly into two greased and floured 1 1/2-quart ovenproof (Pyrex) bowls.
- Bake at 325u0b0 for an hour.
- Test with toothpick. Cool.
- Place one cake, rounded side down, on serving plate.
- Frost top of it with orange frosting (2 teaspoons grated orange peel can be added).
- Place second cake flat side down over the bottom cake, so that cakes form a pumpkin shape.
- Frost the outside of cake with remaining frosting.
- Run spatula down sides of cake for pumpkin ridges effect.
- Make pumpkin stem with large green gumdrops and Jack-O-Lantern eyes, nose and mouth with black gumdrops.
- Makes 12 servings.
yellow cake mix, pumpkin, cinnamon, orange frosting, green
Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=873771 (may not work)