The great Halloween pumpkin cakes is from Sharon Skildum, Maple Grove, Minnesota the great pumpkin cakes is the ultimate confectionery tribute to Charlie Brown’s Great Pumpkin. These little round cakes are surprisingly easy they’re just two cupcakes put together! Just frost and decorate with vines and leaves.
Ingredients
1 package (18-1/4 ounces) yellow cake mix or
cake mix of your choice
2 cans (16 ounces each) vanilla frosting,
divided
1 to 1-1/2 teaspoons orange paste food
coloring
12 green gumdrops
1/2 teaspoon green paste food coloring
Method
1 Prepare cupcakes according to package directions. Fill 24 greased muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 350° for 15-18 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely
2 For frosting, in a small bowl, combine 1-1/2 cans frosting; tint orange. Cut a thin slice off the top of each cupcake. Spread frosting on 12 cupcakes. Invert remaining cupcakes and place on top; frost top and sides.
3 For stems, place one gumdrop on top of each pumpkin.
4 Tint remaining frosting green. Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag; insert #5 round tip and fill with a third of green frosting. Pipe curly vines from pumpkin stems. Using remaining green frosting and a #352 leaf tip, pipe leaves randomly along the vines. Yield: 1 dozen.
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