Recipe: Pumpkin Shaped Cake for Suzanne/UK

Pumpkin Shaped Cake

Twice the batter for any cake recipe
(or 2 packages of cake mix, prepared)
Twice any white frosting recipe
(or 2 cans white frosting)
Food coloring - red, yellow, green (mix the red and yellow to make orange for the pumpkin)
1 Hostess Ho-Ho (or similar cake-roll snack item)

Prepare two cakes in bundt pans and cool completely. Color most of the frosting a deep orange, reserving about 1/2 cup, which should be colored black (or use dark chocolate fudge frosting). Place one bundt cake upside down (rounded side on the bottom) on a cake plate; frost the top only. Place the second bundt cake flat-side down on top of first cake. Frost the entire cake with orange frosting, making up and down motions with spatula to simulate a pumpkin's skin. Insert the Ho-Ho in the middle of the top of the bundt cake to make the stem. Use black frosting to make eyes, nose, mouth, etc. (Or use candies, gum drops, jelly beans, black rope licorice -- be creative!) Suzanne - 2 other stem ideas are a cupcake made from the same cake mix (homemade or from a box) which you invert and frost with green icing and put in the hole of the bundt cake, or marzipan colored with green food coloring.

Recipe is from Parents Magazine