Spice Cake

Taken from the Duncan Hines box of Spice Cake mix.

Ingredients:

• Box of Duncan Hines Spice Cake mix
• Ingredients according to box

Frosting:

• Duncan Hines Cream Cheese frosting
• Cinnamon

To Make:

• Bake cake according to directions on box.
• Mix personal preference of cinnamon into the frosting and frost entire cake.

Pumpkin Cupcakes

Recipe from Real Simple.

Ingredients:

• Box of yellow cake mix
• Ingredients required on box*
• 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1 15oz can pumpkin puree
• 2 8oz bars cream cheese (room temperature)
• 2 cups confectioner's sugar
• 24 pieces of candy corn

To Make:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line two 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners. Prepare cake mix as directed but with the following change: *Add pumpkin pie spice and substitute water with pumpkin puree.
• Divide batter among prepared muffin tins and bake 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center of cupcake comes out clean. Let cool.

Frosting & Decorations:

• Using an electric mixer, beat cream cheese and sugar until creamy. Spread onto cupcakes and top each individual cupcake with a piece of candy corn.

Pumpkin Cake

I saw an idea on Pinterest for a pumpkin-shaped bundt cake. I used it as an idea, but since I don't have a bundt pan, I re-created the cake.

Ingredients:

• White cake mix
• Ingredients needed based on back of box
• Ice cream cone with a flat bottom
• Red, blue, and yellow food coloring (I prefer gels)
• Piping bag (or a sandwich bag with a small hole cut in one bottom corner.

To Make:

• Bake according to instructions on back of box for 2 9-inch round pans.

Frosting & Decorations

• Place ice cream cone wide-side-down on top of the cake. Trace the cone with a knife, cutting into the cake about 2 inches. Press cone into the hole until the waffle pattern is level with the top of the cake.
• The majority of the frosting will be orange. Scoop about 1/4 cup of frosting into a separate container.
• Mix yellow and red into large amount  of white frosting for a pumpkin-orange color.
• Mix yellow and blue into small amount of white frosting for the stem's green color and vines. *
• Begin with green and frost the ice cream cone, covering it completely.
• With orange, frost entire cake, dipping into the hole at the top, but try to avoid putting orange on the stem.
• With an icing spatula (or a spoon), gently drag the tool from top of cake to bottom creating the pumpkin creases.
• With piping bag, fill with remaining green frosting and gently pipe a few swirls starting at the stem and gently onto the top of the cake.

*Note: I mixed red with yellow and blue to make a brown color, but I personally found it ugly. I should've made it green.