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Pumpkin Cake

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A slice into this fun pumpkin-shaped dessert reveals a moist banana cake inside. A tempting nut filling joins two cakes to for the pumpkin. Decorating is easy with orange-tinted frosting. We use it as a birthday cake, but it also would be nice following a special fall meal. -Julianne Johnson, Grove City, Minnesota

SERVINGS: 12-16

CATEGORY: Dessert

METHOD: Baked

TIME: Prep: 35 min. Bake: 30 min. + cooling

Ingredients:

  • 2 packages (18-1/2 ounces each) banana cake mix
  • 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup half-and-half cream
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup chopped pecans
  • BUTTER CREAM FROSTING:
  • 3/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 to 4 tablespoons milk
  • Red, yellow and green food coloring
  • Ice cream cone or banana

Directions:

Prepare and bake cakes in 12-cup fluted tube pans according to package directions; cool.
    For filling, melt butter in a saucepan. Stir in flour to form a smooth paste. Gradually add cream and sugar, stirring constantly until thick. Boil 1 minute; remove from heat. Stir in vanilla and salt. Fold in pecans; cool.
    Cut thin slice of bottom of each cake. Spread one cake bottom with filling; put cakes together with bottoms together. Set aside.
    In a mixing bowl, cream butter and shortening. Beat in sugar and vanilla. Add milk until desired consistency is reached. Combine red and yellow food coloring to make orange; tint about three-fourths of the frosting orange. Tint remaining frosting green. Place a small glass upside down in the center of the cake to support the "stem". Put a dollop of frosting on the glass and top with an ice cream cone or banana. Cut the cone or banana to the correct length; frost with green frosting. Frost cake with orange frosting. Yield: 12-16 servings.


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