My son is turning 1 on Halloween day and I want to "surprise" him with a pumpkin-shaped cake. I have read about stacking two bundt cakes and it looks good. I have a couple of questions:

a) What type of icing do you recommend? (Do you have a recipe you can share?) I am not very skilled at cake decorating. The cake will be probably chocolate and pumpkin (one flavor each tier) so I was thinking about orange icing.
b) What type of cake do you recommend. I want the cake to hold for two or three days. I was thinking of baking Hershey's "Perfect chocolate cake". It comes out nicely and it is quite moist. Do you think this would work?

Thanks a lot. I look forward to your responses.

The pumpkin cake in my photos was either pumpkin spice or just spice, either way it was a doctored cake mix. I just used my regular buttercream. I airbrushed mine but you could always color your icing orange.

Welcome to the site...I would suggest using a buttercream...there are recipes on this site, I believe the one I use is very similiar to buttercream dream..... I think the bundt cake pans sound like a great idea and I think the chocolate cake sounds great. I have covered cakes in buttercream and they still taste good day 2.....but I doubt one has ever been around for day 3...but I would think it should be fine.

Texas sugar.... Did you use two different cake mixes( flavors) on your pumpkin cake. It is really cute....Did you put one right side up and the other right side down...?

Welcome luiri

If you look at my photos I made a pumpkin Halloween Theme cake last year for a child the pumpkin cake is from the wiltons pumpkin pan it was a pound cake recipe (they seem to hold up better for a 3D cake) and the bottom round was a chocolate flavor I used buttercream for the pumkin cake and a chocolate frosting for the bottom

Molly

I saw a pumpkin cake where they used 2 bundt cakes and stacked them and then they used a cake cone and used that for the pumpkin stem.

I just made a pumpkin cake into a cinderella carriage for my daughters 2nd birthday. One bundt cake was chocolate with a coconut tunnel and the other was a strawberry cake then I had half of a 10" round orange cake in between the two. I used the whipped cream buttercream recipe. The whole thing was very good.

Two bundt cakes put together (tops touching) work well. I would do fondant for two reasons.....first, you can get a really pretty orange color and smooth finish like that of a pumpkin, and secondly, the MMF will mold into the crevices of the pumpkin and look real. It will also conceal the "seam" between the two cakes. That's just my opinion

Would a single bunt cake work for a pumpkin, if you didn't want so much cake??