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Pumpkin Patch Cake - Cute! Recipe


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Ingredients
  • 4 c buttercream frosting .
  • 2 (18 1/4 oz) Pillsbury yellow cake mix, unprepared .
  • 3 eggs .
  • 1/3 c vegetable oil .
  • 1 c water .
  • food coloring, green, red, yellow

Directions
  • Step #1 For this cake, you stack two Bundt cakes, making sure that the flat sides are sandwiched together & the ridges are aligned.
  • Step #2 Orange buttercream frosting & a ccake 'stem' are the finishing touches.
  • Step #3 To make the cakes & stem: Prepare first recipe cake batter.
  • Step #4 Scoop 1/2 c batter in standard-sized muffin tin; pour remaining batter into greased & floured 12-c Bundt pan.
  • Step #5 Bake both on middle rack in 350-degree oven until toothpick inserted in center of each comes out clean, 15 to 20 mins for ccake & 45 to 55 mins for Bundt cake.
  • Step #6 Cool ccake in pan 5 mins, then turn out onto rack.
  • Step #7 Cool Bundt cake in pan 30 mins, then turn out onto rack.
  • Step #8 Repeat with second recipe of cake batter.
  • Step #9 Let both ccakes & both cakes cool completely.
  • Step #10 To assemble & frost the pumpkin: Place 1/2 c frosting in bowl & stir in the two drops green food coloring to make frosting for stem.
  • Step #11 Stir two drops each red & yellow food coloring into remaining frosting, adding more until desired orange color is achieved.
  • Step #12 Use bread knife to level off domed top of ccakes & even out bottoms of Bundt cakes.
  • Step #13 Assemble & frost.
  • Step #14 After placing one Bundt cake flat side up on a cake platter & covering the flat side with 1 c orange frosting, place the second Bundt cake flat side down on top of the frosting, making sure the ridges on both cakes align.
  • Step #15 Then place one ccake cut side up in the hole of the Bundt cake & spread 1 tbsp orange frosting over the top of the ccake.
  • Step #16 Using a cake spatula, cover the entire cake with orange frosting.
  • Step #17 Run the back of a small spoon up the sides of the orange frosting every few inches to create pumpkin "creases.
  • Step #18 ".
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