Let’s start by the simple ideas. If you grab a simple cake and add some orange food coloring and then top with chocolate frosting, you are almost ready. Stick some candy grave stones on top of the cake, and use green piped icing to create a grass-like effect. This will give you a scary Halloween graveyard. It is a simple idea but a good beginning.

Here is one of the simplest recipes for a delicious pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting. It will take approximately 40 minutes to prepare.

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon groud ginger
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 cups pumpkin puree or cooked mashed pumpkin
• Cream cheese frosting
• ½ cup chopped pecans

Preparation

Let’s prepare the pumpkin cake. Combine in a large clean mixing bowl, sugar, vegetable oil and all the eggs. Mix well until it is fully combined. Sift the dry ingredients into a separate bowl. Add the dry mixture into the oil mixture and beat very well. Finally add the pumpkin puree mixing all.

Pour batter into two greased and floured 9-inch round layer cake pans. Bake it at 350° for 35 to 40 minutes. Turn out to racks to cool. When it is cold, frost pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting (see instructions below) and sprinkle with chopped pecans.

You can replace the pecans with chocolate chips, or nuts as preferred.

The cream cheese frosting is very easy to do. Here are the instructions:

Combine in a large mixing bowl, ¼ cup butter, 1 package of cream cheese. The cheese must be at room temperature. If it is cold, it will be difficult to mix. Add 1 pound confectioner’s sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract. Beat all the ingredients very well until smooth, and the frosting is ready. The mixture will be enough for a two layer pumpkin cake.

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
• 1 ½ cup flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon lemon zest
• ½ cup chopped pecans
• 1 cup sifted confectioners’ sugar
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

Cooking Process:

It is recommended to first get the cake pan ready and to also warm up the oven. To get ready the cake pan, grease a 9 inch tube pan. Put the oven on 325 degrees F to heat it. Now, take a large bowl and add the butter and confectioners’ sugar. Beat it till the mixture becomes fluffy. To this, add an egg one by one, all the while whisking it. Mix flour and vanilla extract and fold it in. Also, add the pecans and lemon peel. Stir the mixture once more, so that all the ingredients merge suitably.

Now, turn the cake mixture into the cake pan and bake for 40 to 45 minutes or till the time the cake is ready. To test whether it is ready, insert a skewer into the center of the cake. If no mixture is stuck to it and the skewer comes out clean then the cake is ready. Allow the cake to cool after taking it out of the oven. Invert the cake onto a plate you want to serve it in. Also, frost the cake with a glaze made out of confectioners’ sugar and fresh lemon juice. If you like, you can also decorate the cake with nuts.

Ingredients for cake:

• 3 tablespoons of butter
• 3 cups cranberries
• 1 cup milk
• 1/4 teaspoon of salt
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 3 teaspoons of baking powder

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9” square baking pan. Combine all ingredients except for cranberries and whisk until thoroughly combined. Once ingredients are well mixed, fold in cranberries until well combined. Pour batter into greased pan and place on middle rack of oven for 35-40 minutes. When cake is done, remove from oven and allow to cool on wire rack before removing from pan.

For icing (do not make until ready to serve the cake):

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon flour
• 2/3 cup cream or half and half
• 1/2 teaspoon butter
• 1 tablespoon vinegar

In a mixing bowl, combine sugar and flour. Take the remaining ingredients (except for the vanilla) and put in sauce pan to warm. Stir in flour mixture and continue to stir until all ingredients are combined and liquefied. Allow mixture to come to a boil, add vanilla and serve immediately over cake.

This is a truly special Chritsmas Cake Recipe treat that can be had year round for a special desert. We can all but guarantee that this is something that you will rarely see served, if ever, at someone’s home. It is also guaranteed that at least one person will utter, “Why don’t we have this more often?”

Ingredients

• 240gm flour
• 200gm sugar
• 4 eggs
• 120gm butter
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 360gm raisins
• 100ml rum
• Few drops of vanilla essence
• 150gm lemon peel
• 50gm walnuts
• 30gm crystallized cherries

Cooking Process

The first step is to prepare a cake tin by oiling the tin and sprinkling a little flour in it. Line the bottom of the tin with paraffin paper. Now, slice the cherries, walnuts and lemon peel into small pieces and put them in rum. Also, add raisins to this mixture. Combine sugar, butter and vanilla essence by beating them together.

At this point, beat the eggs into the mixture. This has to be done slowly so that the mixture does not curdle. Once the eggs are well-mixed, flour and baking powder have to be stirred in. Next, add the ingredients soaked in rum and also add some of the rum. The prepared mixture has to be poured into the cake tin.

Now, heat an oven at 160 C and put the cake into the oven. The cake should be allowed to bake for 15 to 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, remove the cake from the oven and let cool for some time. Once the cake has cooled down, pour the sugar and the remaining rum syrup onto the cake. Your cake is now ready for use.