This is my Halloween cake for this year. I had a thousand and one ideas, but all of them for much larger cakes, and we aren't that many people at my job these days to eat the cake. Also, I hadn't all that much time, so I decided to keep it simple. The cake I really wanted to do was a cauldron, but in the end I decided that wasn't Halloweeny enough, so I returned to the pumpkin. I've made a pumpkin cake before, but I like this one so much better. It's chocolate mudcake with orange buttercream. A word of advice; make mudcake a few days before you want to carve and decorate it, otherwise it'll crumble just when you look at it. Believe me, I know.