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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

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Pumpkin Cake Recipe

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

Yield: 12-16 Servings

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Ingredients

2 packages (18-1/2 ounces each) banana cake mix
2 tablespoons butter
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, softened
3/4 cup shortening
6 cups confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 to 4 tablespoons milk
Red, yellow and green food coloring
Ice cream cake cones or banana
1 cup chocolate wafer crumbs, optional

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 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. If desired, add chocolate water crumbs as "dirt" around cake. Pipe green vines on cake and "dirt" if desired. Yield: 12-16 servings.

Originally published as Pumpkin Cake in Taste of Home October/November 1994, p35

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Reviewed on Nov. 23, 2009 by CharlysGardenPlace

I was looking for a Pumpkin Cake, not a Pumpkin-Shaped Cake... I'll keep looking - this one looks like fun!!! Maybe I'll make my Pumpkin Cake into your pumpkin chake shape. Happy Thanksgiving!

Reviewed on Oct. 11, 2009 by cjmascja

I have made this cake before as my son's birthday is on Oct. 31st. However the change I might suggest is that I used 2 bundt pans and the groves in the pan gave the effect of a real pumpkin.