How To make Pumkin Cake

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CAKE:

2 packages Banana cake mix

18 1/2 oz
:

FILLING

2 tablespoons Butter :

OR margarine
2 tablespoons Flour
1/2 cup Light cream
1/2 cup Sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1/2 cup Pecans

chopped
:

FROSTING

3/4 cup Butter :

OR margarine
3/4 cup Shortening
6 cups Confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
3 tablespoons Milk

more or less
Red food coloring Yellow food coloring Green food coloring Ice cream cone :

or banana
Prepare the cakes according to directions' bake in TWO 12 cup fluted tub pan.
FILLING: Melt butter in a sauce pan. Stir in flour to forma smooth paste. Gradually add cream and sugar, stirring constantly until thick. Boil 1 minute; remove from heat. Stir in the vanilla and salt. Fold in pecans; cool. Cut thin slice off bottom of each cake,. Spread one cake bottom with filling; put cakes together with bottoms together. set aside.
FROSTING: In a mixing bowl, cream butter and shortening. Beat in sugar and vanilla. Add milk until desired consistency is reached. Combine red and yellow food coloring to make orange; tint about 3/4's of the frosting orange. Tint remaining frosting green.
ASSEMBLY: Place a small glass upside down in the center of the cake to support the "stem". Put a dollop of frosting on the glass and top with an ice cream cone or banana. Cut the cone or banana to the correct length; frost with green frosting. Frost cake with orange frosting.
NOTE: I wish I could copy the picture for you...it is adorable.
SOURCE: TASTE OF HOME Magazine; October/November 1994 issue;