A Pumpkin For My Punkins

My girls wanted to make a cake the other day, so I got one of those halloween cake mixes they have out now with sprinkles in the box already. I did not realize though that the ones it came with were just regular orange and black sprinkles to mix into the batter. The pictures showed finished cupcakes with Bat and pumpkin sprinkles on top. These you must have had to be separate.

Luckily when you have little ones in the house, you have a stock of sprinkles in the cubby. So I mixed in some other ones I had to make the batter sprinkly ( is that a word) and saved the black and orange ones for the top. I also had some leaf shaped sprinkles left from another project, so that worked too. I do not know why I was worried though because when you let them "help" you sprinkle, you pretty much end up with a glob anyway. Could be bats, could be leaves, could be purple people eaters and no one would be able to tell the difference. LOL


The cake came out pretty cute though I think. The girls decided they wanted to use the Heart shaped pan we have, and after I baked it, it occurred to me that it kind of looked pumpkin shaped so I went with it and made orangish icing and green icing. and made it a pumpkin cake.

After I already had the orange icing on my hubby walks in and says something like "that's cool, but if you would have cut a little off the bottom of the heart it would have looked even more like a pumpkin" I say "Where were you a few minutes ago?" LOL but I keep it in mind for next year :o)

I think it came out alright for not being planned, I even used a baggy with the end cut off to pipe the green vine and leaf,,,not perfect, but that is one of the great things about baking for children if it is pretty and sweet they like it!