Happy 1st day of October! The countdown to Halloween officially starts. I thought I would kick it off with pumpkin cake topped with deliciously light whipped cream cheese frosting.
As I was taking pictures I realized that this is very close to the apple spice cake I made last month. The difference is I found a much better cream cheese frosting. The previous recipe had four cups of powdered sugar where this one only has one. Much less cloying and oh so much fluffier.
The cake recipe I used is the One-Bowl Pumpkin Sheet Cake from A Cozy Kitchen. I followed the cake recipe exactly but used a different recipe for the frosting. The frosting recipe I used comes from Natasha's Kitchen and it is so fluffy and light and just the right amount of sweetness.
Here's something that happens behind the scenes…Since I don't eat cake (or any sweets) it is a little ridiculous to make an entire cake just for Rick so I tend to bake on Sundays so I can take it to Sunday dinner at my Dad's. But I also want to take glamour shots of whatever I make. I first take pictures of the whole cake then I cut a piece to get pictures of the inside of the cake. Afterwards I carefully put the piece back and smear the frosting along the cut lines to hide them. Ha! No one is the wiser.
A Cozy Kitchen decorated her cake with pretty pastel jimmies that she made herself. Not having the patience or the wherewithal to do that I settled for a mix of white and orange. But I love the idea of less garish colors when decorating cakes and found this shop that sells a huge variety of different colored jimmies. I would have done a mix of peach and ivory.
On Wednesday I'll share the Halloween Party invitations. They have been all sent off on Saturday so the recipients should have received them and it won't ruin the surprise.
