Two white cakes are baked in bundt cake pans and sandwiched together with icing to create the pumpkin shape. A simple butter cream icing is spread over the cake in orange. Green icing covers an ice cream cone that's placed in the center.
Note: If you only have one bundt cake pan, divide the batter ingredients in half from above. The above cake recipe will make two cakes. Mix and bake one cake at a time. If you have two bundt cake pans you can mix all the ingredients above at once and divide into two pans and bake.
Preheat the oven to 325°F. Grease the insides of two bundt cake pans (or one) with vegetable oil and a paper towel. Be sure that the entire inside of the pan is greased with no dry spots.
In a large bowl, combine the cake flour, sugar, baking soda, and baking powder. Whisk together.
Cream the room temperature butter and sugar with a hand mixer.
Add in the eggs, canola oil, and vanilla extract. Beat together with the hand mixer.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until combined.
Grease the bundt cake pans with cooking oil, being sure to cover every section. Divide the cake batter into two bundt cake pans (if using the whole ingredients list above). Or make one bundt cake now and another after.
Give the pans a tap and shake to smooth out hte batter and let out any air bubbles. Bake for 28-32 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when poked through the center.Let cool 10 minutes in pan, then gently flip and cool completely on a wire rack.
Repeat the steps with the second cake. If baking two at the same time, the cakes will take longer to bake. Let both cakes cool completely before icing.
Add the icing ingreidents to a bowl: room temperature butter, confectioners icing sugar, vanilla extract and milk. Use a hand mixer to blend until smooth and creamy.
Add a bit of icing to the bottom cake layer and place it on a serving plate. This will act like a "glue" to help it stay in place.
Add icing to the cake and then place the second bundt cake on top.
Save ¼ cup of icing and set it aside (for the green).Add a yellow and red food coloring to make orange (or buy orange food coloring) and mix until blended evenly.
Spread a thin layer with a spatula over the cake. Let taht set 15 minutes then spread another layer.
Mix together blue and yellow food coloring gel to create green. Or use green food coloring gel. Mix together thoroughly so the color is even.
Spread icing around the outside of one ice cream cone. Add icing to the edge of ice cream cones to help them stick together.
Add a bit of icing to the bottom of the cone without icing. It will act like a glue to hold it in place. Insert the cones into the center of the cake.