Happy Birthday Pumpkin Cake

Pumpkin Cake and Cupcakes 2

I absolutely love fall and pumpkins! This is my second (of three) pumpkin cakes so far this season and this one is a “Happy Birthday Pumpkin Cake”… isn’t that fun?

Side note… I bought that little green cake stand at a resale shop and it was one of my favorites… sadly it was broken just a few minutes after I took this picture (sniff, sniff!). Does anybody know where I could get a similar one??

Anywho, you can see the first pumpkin cake I did this year here… it was a precious Pink Pumpkin Cake with Ombre Ruffles!

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The cake was baked in this Nordic Ware 3D Great Pumpkin Cake pan. I did a filling between the two layers, then crumb coated it in buttercream before covering with the orange marshmallow fondant.

I placed it on an 8″ round board and trimmed it with orange ribbon.

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Along with the cake I did a dozen cupcakes, also with orange vanilla buttercream! You can see how I frost cupcakes here in a video tutorial.

Here are a few more pics of the cake and cupcakes…

Pumpkin Cake Stem Above

Pumpkin Stem

Pumpkin Cake

I also have a picture of the cake with my “photo assistant” for the day… Sarah.

Sarah helping with pictures

I know my pictures aren’t “top of the line” but I do have fun taking them and my kids always have fun “helping”…

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…she’s such a little nut! 🙂

If you’re looking for a pumpkin cake design, be sure to scroll through all of my pumpkin cakes here and check out my favorite one here… a Pumpkin Patch Cake (on a hay bale)!

There’s also a fantastic tutorial on how to make a 3-D Pumpkin Cake in Debbie Brown’s book 50 Easy Party Cakes!

Have you ever made a pumpkin cake? Do you have any questions or thoughts? Leave me a comment!

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2 Comments

  1. How is the “happy birthday” written on this pumpkin cake?
    I love the font. Didn’t know if it was cut out of fondant or free hand printed.

    Thank you…love all your experience and knowledge that you share.

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