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Pumpkins and Games and Googly Eyes – Oh My! (A Giveaway)

September 13, 2010 By Marta Darby 10 Comments

Yep, I'm still writing about Betty Crocker. I warned you I had a lot to share!

Again, I want to reiterate that spending those few days with a group of proactive, excited bloggers in the Betty Crocker Kitchens will definitely be one of the highlights of my life. Seriously.

I think maybe because all of us got to just relax and play. You know how it is in Mom World. We watch, we correct, we applaud, but for many of us, we just forget to play.

So this post is dedicated to playing.

Okay, so our little mini-group made this cake. A Jack-O-Lantern Cake. Yep, it was as cool as it sounds. And easy, too. (Tasty is important, but easy is always a bigger selling point for me when it involves cooking or baking, but that's not important right now.)

The cake itself is made in a round oven-proof (Pyrex is my particular brand of choice) bowl.

Our particular group had the added bonus of including Michelle, the food editor for Gourmet Mom on-the-Go who, like a baking-prepared Mary Poppins, carried cake sprinkles and googly eyes in her purse. She pulled them out when it was time for us to decorate our pumpkin cake, much to the delight of myself and our other blog-partner-in-frosting, Julie, of Joy's Hope.

We got to play. In the Betty Crocker Kitchens. For me it was like one of those make-a-wish-type moments.

So we mixed food coloring and added fruit-by-the-foot leaves and an ice cream cone stem/hat. And, of course, the googly eyes. Googly eyes started to show up on everything.

Googly eyes on cupcakes
And even if I do say so myself, ours was the best pumpkin. I liked the googly eyes and all, they absolutely gave it personality, but I confess, I liked the finished product better as just a pumpkin cake. (I know. Shut up.)

Googly eyes
Here's the recipe:

Jack-O-Lantern Cake

  • 2 boxes Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® devil's food or white cake mix
  • Water
  • vegetable oil and eggs or egg whites called for on cake mix box
  • 2 containers (1 lb each) Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting
  • Yellow and red food color
  • 1 green flat-bottom ice-cream cone
  • Betty Crocker® Fruit Roll-Ups® chewy fruit snack rolls (any flavor)

1. Heat oven to 325°F. Grease and flour 2-quart round casserole or 2 1/2-quart ovenproof bowl. Make 1 box cake mix as directed on box, using water, oil and eggs or egg whites. Pour batter into casserole.

2. Bake devil's food cake 1 hour 10 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes, white cake about 1 hour 10 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes. Remove cake from casserole; place rounded side up on cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour. (Got that? You're making two cakes, each in the casserole dish.)

Cake
3. Make and bake remaining cake mix using same casserole or bowl.

4. With sharp knife, carefully slice piece from top of each cake to make flat surface where cakes will be placed together to form pumpkin shape. (Cake scraps can be saved and added to another recipe such as pudding or trifle if desired.)

5. In medium bowl, place frosting; tint with 9 drops yellow and 6 drops red food color to make orange frosting. On plate, place 1 cake, rounded side down. Spread 2/3 cup of the orange frosting over cake almost to edge. Place second cake, rounded side up, on frosted cake to make round shape. Frost entire cake with remaining orange frosting.

Frosting
6. Trim ice-cream cone to desired height for stem; place upside down on cake. Cut out eyes, nose, mouth, vines and leaves from fruit snack rolls. Place on frosted cake to form face. Store tightly covered at room temperature.

Or you can just watch us do this…. Enjoy.


We're having some fun now, right?

Which brings me to today's giveaway. (What? Another giveaway? That's madness, Marta!)

General Mills has a very cool company store and I shopped around for the items that I wanted to giveaway. (Thanks to GM for generously agreeing to make them available to MBFCF.) And because I'm a complete uber-nerd, this totally caught my eye:

Yahtzee
It's a Yahtzee game! A General Mills Yahtzee Game, people!

(Okay, so I bought one for my daughter, Amy Kikita who is a rabid Yahtzee player and I asked General Mills if they could send me one to offer as a giveaway. (Being the generous folks they are, they agreed. I'm sure they scratched their heads a little on this one – "You want a WHAT??" – , but that's not important right now. =D)

So to enter the drawing for today's giveaway, let's talk games.

To be entered in the drawing for the General Mills Yahtzee Game (A Yahtzee game, people!) , just answer one or all of the following questions in the comment section of this post:

  • Does your family play games?
  • Do you have a family favorite?

I'll choose a winner on Wednesday, September 15th at 11:00 AM Pacific Time.

Let's play!

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Filed Under: Food and Drink, Games, Giveaways Tagged With: Betty Crocker, Betty Crocker Kitchens, creative stuff, General Mills, Giveaway, Jack-o-lantern cake recipe, Yahtzee

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Comments

  1. Angela G, says

    September 13, 2010 at 10:33 am

    Yes, we play games at our house, but it’s mostly the kids and their friends who come over for game night. There’s nothing like a houseful of teenagers sitting around the dining room table laughing and just acting silly…and they don’t just play at our house, they like to rotate the venues frequently… good, clean fun! Favorites include Risk, Apples to Apples and Monopoly. A new recent fav is Scattergories (even I get into that one)!

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  2. Kiki Bacaro says

    September 13, 2010 at 10:55 am

    Yes, we play games:) Our favorite to play together is Cranium. My hubby’s fave is Trivial Pursuit, FROM THE 80’S!!! My personal fave will always be Scrabble! I love words!

    Reply
  3. Pastor Gene says

    September 13, 2010 at 3:31 pm

    We’re experiencing a game-revival of sorts as grandparents. Candyland tournaments are now routinely held in our dining room. Did you know there was a Buzz Lightyear edition of the classic, Operation?

    Reply
  4. Fraud42069 says

    September 13, 2010 at 3:46 pm

    That looks so cute and Tasty

    Reply
  5. Lori says

    September 13, 2010 at 4:04 pm

    We play games whenever home school allows! I believe the current favorite is Mexican Train! Love the Jack – O- Lantern cake, I love fall. I’m going to give it a try. Thanks!

    Reply
  6. BFF says

    September 13, 2010 at 4:07 pm

    So…we, and by we I mean you and I, play words with friends! Which has pretty much replaced the real scrabble play. Gene and I will sit in the living room and play each other with our iphones! When CJ is over, we play Candy Land and Buzz Lightyear Operation! I LOVE Yahtezz! I use to play all the time when I was a kid. I played by my self. Just me and the dice! I now play on the iphone against imaginary people like Sensei, Mai or Flavius! Anyway, I’d love to win this version! I’d take it to Disneyworld with me! Love ya!

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  7. ClaudiaR says

    September 13, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    First I love that pumpkin cake! Can you come here and do a giant mermaid cake for 100 for my daughter’s quinceañera?The games. As a teen, my family and I used to play Balderdash- still my favorite game. My parents are vocabulary buffs so it was always so much fun!
    Now I play Apples to Apples with my kids. It’s a hoot!
    I was a bit of a Yahtzee nerd, too. I’ve played a similar game online. What can I say- I majored in language!

    Reply
  8. Aida Nava says

    September 14, 2010 at 8:24 am

    i’m teaching the girls to play uno.. and of course we play candyland!! we grew up playing card games my mom learned from an elderly lady she cared for. we played rummikub, and monopoly.. i think as an adult the best game we play is catch phrase at family camp…

    Reply
  9. Rebecca Gonzalez says

    September 14, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    We LOVE games! Our current favorite for our Family Game Nights is Trouble!:) Becky
    for the Gonzalez Gang

    Reply
  10. Suyin says

    September 14, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    We love to play Trivial Pursuit… Our family has a Thanksgiving tradition – after a day of cooking and am amazing family dinner, we take out the game and play Trivial Pursuit. My kids and family look forward to it every year. Great tradition…Great game… Great family time…

    Reply

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