Halloween Cupcakes

More practice with the 1M swirl!  Used leftover frosting from the pumpkin spice cake.

Pumpkin Spice Cake

My first cake!  :)  It turned out pretty.  I need to practice the border and I didn't like the Tip #789 for making patterns on the side of the cake, but it was delicious!  This was a practice cake for my daughter's upcoming birthday.  I wanted to practice filling, torting, crumbcoating, and decorating.  I really need to work on a border for the bottom of the cake.  We ate this for our Halloween celebration so it was a pumpkin spice cake with orange colored cream cheese buttercream frosting.  It was dry to the touch, so at first I rubbed it with a paper towel to transfer the pattern, but after realizing I had enough frosting for more swirls, I added more!

Cake Recipe:  1 box spiced cake mix, 1 can pumpkin, 2 eggs - mix together.  Put in two 8" cake pans.  Bake for 35 minutes.

Cream Cheeese Buttercream Decorator Frosting Recipe: http://www.cakeartisan.com/documents/CrustingCreamCheeseButtercream.pdf