Pumpkin Patch Cakes

(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)

Categories: Cake

Ingredients

  • 1 box yellow or chocolate cake mix
  • Orange and green gel food coloring
  • 2 cups confectioners' sugar
  • orange and green sugars and candy decors
  • Pretzel rods or sticks
  • Marzipan, for leaves

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 12 mini Bundt pans with nonstick baking spray.
  2. Prepare cake mix (tinting, if desired) and
  3. bake as directed, filling pans halfway with batter.

  4. When cakes are done, unmold onto wire rack; let cool completely.
  5. In a 4 cup measuring cup, combine sugar with 3 to 4 Tbsp. water to make thick glaze. With sharp knife, trim bottom of each cake flat; assemble into pairs. using a small amount of glaze drizzled o flat sides of cakes, assemble pairs to form pumpkins.
  6. Drizzle pumpkin cakes with glaze and/or sprinkle with sugar or décor. Break pretzel rod to fit as stems. Moisten pretzels with water and roll in sugar. Insert into centers of pumpkins.
  7. Tint marzipan green for leaves. Roll and cut as desired and place around pretzel stems. Let cakes stand until glaze is set.

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