Halloween Jack O`Lantern Cake

   Flush with success from my  earlier Halloween cake I decided to make another. Since I'd already done purple and orange I decided to make a Jack O` Lantern cake. The frosting is my usual Cream Cheese frosting dyed orange and the cake is a yellow cake I dyed green, because green is cool and it makes it look like the jack o` lantern is rotten. It was little weird eating it, because we kept thinking the frosting should taste like pumpkin and the cake should taste like lime, but that's part of the Halloween-ness of it, right? Originally this was a bundt cake recipe, but I couldn't find a recipe for a two layer cake that used as many eggs so I added baking soda to the batter and baked it in two 9'' pans.

 I was supposed to mix nuts into the batter, but I forgot and had to put them on top of the batter. Which worked out better because if you layer the cakes right they end up like seeds in the middle of a pumpkin. The ones that toasted on top even had a pumpkin seed texture, so that's how I will type up the recipe. Mix them in or omit them, if you like.




              
                                                           

                                             Egg and Butter Cake  

1/2 pound butter                                           1/4 teas. salt
2 cups sugar                                                 1 teas. vanilla      
5 eggs                                                           Green food dye
2 cups flour                                                  1 cup chopped pecans
1 1/2 teas. baking soda                                                                    

    Cream butter and sugar well. Blend your dry ingredients together. Add 1 egg then a small amount of the flour mixture. Continue alternating ingredients until all are used up. beat in vanilla and green food dye. (if using) Pour into two 9" cake pans and sprinkle nuts in the center of the batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.

     

                                                            Cream Cheese frosting

1 8oz package cream cheese              Yellow and red food dye (optional)

1 stick butter                                         1 cup chopped pecans (optional)

1 box powdered sugar

1 tsp. vanilla  

Beat cheese and butter. Add powder sugar (a little at a time until desired taste and consistency are reached). Mix in vanilla and food dye (if using). Stir in nuts (if using). Spread on cooled cake.

Here is a link to a printer friendly version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vi0fnYHdgM26XncdXXgWTBnXmeBBOpiVcnwsohXwca4/edit?usp=sharing

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