Giant Jack-O'-Lantern Cake

Recipe Ingredients

4 cups	250g / 8.8oz	Flour
1 cup	198g / 7oz	Sugar
4 teaspoons	20ml	Pumpkin pie spice
3 teaspoons	15ml	Baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons	7.5ml	Baking soda
6		Eggs
1 1/3 cups	315ml	Oil
4 teaspoons	20ml	Vanilla
1		Pumpkin pie mix
2 cups	292g / 10oz	Walnuts - chopped
32 oz	909g	Cream cheese frosting
1		Banana - unpeeled

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 325F Grease and flour a 10" bundt pan.

In a large bowl, mix together 2 cups flour, 1/2 cup sugar, 2 tsp spice, 1 1/2 tsp baking soda and 3/4 tsp baking powder.

In a small bowl, mix 3 eggs, 2/3 cup oil and 2 tsp vanilla. Stir egg mixture, 1 1/2 cups pumpkin pie mix and flour mix together. Add 1 cup walnuts.

Mix batter well. Pour into prepared pan.

Bake for 50 minutes. Cool ten minutes in pan, remove and cool completely. Repeat for second cake.

Tint 1/3 cup of frosting for stem. Tint remaining frosting orange.

Cut 1/2 inch from top of each cake ( not the fluted side).

Place 1 cake flute side down on a platter. Spread cut side with frosting and place second cake, flute side up, on top.

Place a foil covered cardboard disk in top of cake to fill hole. Place 1/3 banana on cardboard.

Frost with green frosting.

Frost remaining cake with orange frosting.

Source:
Cooking Light - March 1998

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