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Pumpkin Cake

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

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Pumpkin Cake cont.

Red, yellow and green food coloring
Ice cream cone or banana


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

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Pumpkin Cake

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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