Tis the season for everything pumpkin. I can personally say that I have already made pumpkin cookies, spiced pumpkin bread, pumpkin bourbon cake, apple butter pumpkin pie, just to name a few. But I also bake for a living, so perhaps that’s why! 
Since next week is Halloween, I thought I would share a super cute and super easy way to spice up your Halloween party or your childs school party. It’s a pumpkin cake…no, not actually pumpkin flavored, but shaped like a pumpkin. I’m confident that anyone can do it and I’ll walk you through it.
The bottom half of the pumpkin
Ok, this is the first part of the pumpkin. All you do is grease and flour a bundt pan and fill it with the cake mix of your choosing. Bake as instructed and invert to cool. This is the bottom half of the pumpkin. Then, you are going to do it again. Another cake mix, another half of the pumpkin.
Both halves glued together with frosting!
When you have the second layer cooled, you want to put any kind of icing you want on top of the first layer. In essence, you are using the frosting kind of like a glue to hold the layers together. So, be free with the frosting!
After that’s done, we’re gonna ice the entire thing. You can do this a couple of ways. You can make your own frosting using whatever recipe you want, but it needs to be a white frosting. Or you can buy a couple tubs of frosting, dump them in a bowl, and color it orange. Your choice.
The perfect pumpkin
Once you get your icing ready, go about icing the cake any way you want. You can get super fancy or really basic. You can even take your toothpick down the sides and make the indentations that pumpkins usually have. For the stem, take an empty ice cream cone, cover it with chocolate frosting (which is the kind I used in the middle), and set it on top of the cake when you are finished icing it. Then, you can take some green icing and make leaves if you’d like, or not, either way, it’s one heck of a pumpkin!
My daughter is in preschool and once a month they have their “special day” where they get to bring snacks and show and tell. Her day was this past week and I made this cake for her snack. The kids seriously freaked out! One little girl was even crying that morning and didn’t want to stay for class, but when she saw the pumpkin cake, she decided to stay! That’s a pretty powerful pumpkin if you ask me!
So, enjoy the season, enjoy Halloween, and hopefully you will enjoy this super-easy cake, too!
