After blowing off my baking experiments last month, I have some making up to do. I will probably be baking a couple of things this month. I started with a pumpkin spice cake, and use one created for use with the Haunted Mansion cake tin I got last year.
I used this recipe, and did not make any substitutions. The ingredients include a cup and a half of oil, which seemed like a lot. And right when I added it in to the wet mix, it did not incorporate in easily. However, as I mixed in the eggs, it all came together pretty well! It made a nice moist cake with a good flavor.
And-bonus-there was too much batter for just the haunted house bundt, so I had enough left over to make some tombstone mini cakes!
I’m not sure what the next bake will be – probably something for Thanksgiving. Do you have any special cakes or pies you make for the holidays?
Quite A Yarn 
Yum! We make mince pies every year. I am looking forward to that. And I would like to make a Yule log this year.
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Oooo nice! Mince pies sound good, and so does a Yule log!
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Love pumpkin cake and oil cakes are very moist. You are in pumpkin season now, moving into gingerbread and eggnog cake season. Or you can make fruitcake (gag!).
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LOL! Very true! I did used to make fruitcakes that were pretty good! Instead of the candied fruit, I took a mix of regular dried fruit (pineapples, mangoes, dried cherries, etc.) and soaked that in rum. I liked how it turned out! I might need to try eggnog cake – I don’t drink eggnog itself because blech. But an eggnog cake might be good! And yes for sure to gingerbread 🙂
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That looks yummy!
For us (aka my whole extended family), it doesn’t feel like the holidays without Grandma’s apple pie. I took over making the pie around a decade ago, while Grandma was still with us, and seeing her smile when I took over pie duty was so special. These days, pie making is split between me and my sister’s family (she’s teaching her kids).
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That is so nice! What a great family tradition 🙂
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🙂 It feels even more important now that it’s a tangible way we have to remember my grandparents.
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That looks tasty and I love the little tombstones. I don’t have a particular annual recipe I make…not yet anyway
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It is tasty! Not too sweet, which I prefer. Who knows, maybe this is the year you start a tradition!
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Looks yummy and the haunted house cake tin is cool!
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Thank you! It is cool 🙂
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