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Viewed: 22 - Published at: 5 years agoIngredients
- Cooking spray
- 2 18.25-ounce boxes spice cake mix
- 8 large eggs
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 2 16-ounce tubs vanilla frosting
- Orange gel food coloring, for tinting
- Cornstarch, for dusting
- 12 ounces orange rolled fondant (available at craft stores)
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate frosting
- 2 long black licorice strings
- Snack-size candy, for topping
Method
- Spray one 8-inch-round cake pan and two 6-cup Bundt pans with cooking spray.
- Beat the cake mixes, eggs, buttermilk and oil with a mixer; divide among the pans.
- Bake until a toothpick comes out clean, about 25 minutes for the round cake and 30 to 35 minutes for the Bundts; let cool.
- Tint the vanilla frosting with orange food coloring.
- Trim the flat sides of the Bundt cakes and the top of the round cake to make level.
- Turn 1 Bundt cake upside down; spread with frosting.
- Top with the round cake, more frosting and the other Bundt cake, then frost the whole cake and chill 30 minutes.
- Lightly dust a sheet of wax paper with cornstarch.
- Roll out the fondant on the paper into a 21-by-8-inch rectangle, about 18 inch thick.
- Cut into 12 strips, 8 inches long and 1 3/4 inches wide, tapering the ends as shown.
- Attach the fondant strips to the cake, lightly pressing and smoothing them from the base of the cake upward.
- Refrigerate the cake 30 minutes.
- Draw jack-o'-lantern eyes, a nose and a mouth on paper and cut them out; attach to the cake with toothpicks.
- Score around the cutouts with a paring knife, then remove the toothpicks and paper.
- Trace the scored lines with the knife, cutting through the fondant and slightly into the cake.
- Pry out the pieces with the tip of the knife.
- Cut a 1-inch-deep circle out of the top of the cake.
- Put the dark chocolate frosting in a resealable plastic bag; snip the corner and pipe the frosting into the cutouts.
- Twist the 2 strings of licorice together and insert into the top of the cake to make a handle.
- Fill the top of the cake with snack-size candy.
- Photograph by Kat Teutsch
