Happy Birthday Pumpkin Cake

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!

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.

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…

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

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

…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!