Jack-o'-Lantern Cake

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Prep time: 1 hour, 10 minutes
Cook time: 50 minutes for each cake
Serves: 30

Judy Burghard of Roseville has been searching for years for one of her favorite recipes, a pumpkin cake that looks like a pumpkin. This magazine recipe called for canned pumpkin, had a cream cheese filling and orange frosting. She's had no luck in tracking it down.

Pat Stewart of Rancho Cordova shares this recipe she found in a magazine. It sounds like a match for Burghard. This would be a fun treat to serve at a Halloween party — one for kids or adults.

• Ingredients:

4 cups flour

1 cup sugar

4 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice

3 teaspoons baking soda

1½ teaspoons baking powder

6 large eggs

1 1/3 cups salad oil

4 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 30-ounce can pumpkin pie mix (not solid-pack pumpkin)

2 cups chopped walnuts

2 16-ounce containers cream cheese frosting

Food coloring

1/3 unpeeled banana

1 cherry fruit roll

• Instructions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray a 10-inch Bundt pan thoroughly with nonstick cooking spray. In a large bowl, sift together 2 cups flour, ½ cup sugar, 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice, 1½ teaspoons baking soda and ¾ teaspoon baking powder.

In a small bowl, mix 3 eggs, 2/3 cup oil and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Stir egg mixture, 1½ cups pumpkin pie mix and 1 cup walnuts into flour mixture. Spread batter in pan. Bake about 50 minutes. Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes. Remove cake from pan, cool completely. Repeat this process for second cake using the remaining ingredients.

Spoon 1/3 cup cream cheese frosting into a cup. Tint green for stem. Tint remaining frosting orange for pumpkin. Set aside.

Cut a ½-inch thick slice off the bottom (not fluted side) of each cake to make it flat. Discard this slice or save for another use. Place one cake, fluted side down, on a plate. Spread cut side with ¾ cup orange frosting. Top with second cake, fluted side up. Fill in hole with foil-covered cardboard round as base for stem.

Frost cakes with remaining orange frosting. Place banana on cake for stem. Frost "stem" with green frosting. From fruit roll, cut out jack-o'-lantern's eyes, nose and mouth. Stick in place.

Note: The list of ingredients is for two Bundt cakes. Use half of the listed amounts for each cake. The prep time does not include the cool times for the cakes.

• Per serving: 397 calories; 5 grams protein; 49 grams carbohydrates; 21 grams fat (4 saturated, 7 monounsaturated, 10 polyunsaturated); 42 milligrams cholesterol; 283 milligrams sodium; 3 grams fiber; 25 grams sugar; 46 percent calories from fat.