Spooky Pumpkin Liqueur Cake

This spooky pumpkin cake is perfect for your Halloween party. Don't let its ghoulish exterior scare you! This cake is made from scratch, and one of the softest, moistest cakes you'll sink your fangs into. 

This cake would be perfectly presented with plastic spooky spiders and slimy slugs. 

Creepy Cake Ingredients:

• 2-1/2 cups sugar
•   1-1/4 cups canola oil
•   3 Eggs
•   3 cups all-purpose flour
•   2 teaspoons baking soda
•   2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon
•   1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
•   1 tablespoon of maple extract
•   1/2 teaspoon salt
•   1 can (16 ounces) solid-pack pumpkin
•   ½  cup pumpkin cream liqueur 

Ghoulish Glaze Ingredients

•          2 tablespoons of melted butter
•          2 cups of powdered sugar
•          2 tablespoons of pumpkin cream liqueur
•          Green, red, and yellow food coloring

Deadly Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine sugar and oil until blended thoroughly with an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, vanilla, maple extract, pumpkin cream liqueur, and salt; add to egg mixture alternately with pumpkin, beating well after each addition. If mixture seems stiff, add a bit more oil.

Transfer to a greased 10-in. Bundt pan. Bake 45 minutes, or until toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before inverting onto a plate.

Ghoulish Glaze Directions:
Combine melted butter, powdered sugar, and pumpkin cream liqueur, and whisk well. Reserve 3 heaping tablespoons of glaze to a separate small dish. Add 1 drop of red, and 3 drops of yellow food coloring to larger bowl of glaze. Mix well. Add more yellow and one drop of red for a more orange color. 

Add 8 drops of green to smaller dish of glaze, and mix well. 

Using your whisk, drizzle peach colored glaze over cake, allowing it to run down the sides. Drizzle green glaze just over the top of the cake. Some will run down the sides, but that's the idea. ;-)

Optional: 

• Garnish with plastic spiders. 
• Add more food coloring to orange icing for a deeper orange color. 
• Add one upside-down green ice cream cone to center, as a stem.

Yield: 12-16 servings.