Pumpkin

Halloween is one of my favorite times to bake. The Pumpkin was made last year – and was fairly successful! The cake was actually very easy to bake and construct. Use two round sponges moist with fruit juice and filled with jam. The top of cake has pieces of third sponge glued with jam with gaps between the pieces to create allusion of pumpkin top. Cake was covered with buttercream and then with yellow icing.

Sponge              200g of sugar

200g of self-rising flour

200g of butter

1 table spoon of baking soda

3 table spoon of water

1 tea spoon of vanilla essence (Bake on gas mark 4 up to 40 min depends on your   oven.)

Also

                                Jam – raspberry

                                Ready to roll icing – white

                                Food coloring – yellow, green, black

               

                               

Buttercream (2x75g of butter + 2x175g of icing sugar +4 table spoon of milk and 1 tea spoonsof vanilla essence + orange zest)

 

Lines were drawn to imitate natural shape of vegetable. Black icing was used for eyes, nose and smile. Also for a spider. Green icing was mixed up with black and white icing until marble effect was achieved. I used cutters for leaves. Left over yellow icing was used for sweets together with some white icing.

There was some piping done in white – writing and several web made and green piping for leaves and vines.

Whole cake was finished by black ribbon.