Patchwork Pumpkin Patch Cake

Happy October!  It's finally feeling like fall here in Massachusetts.  With the change of weather I am finally moving forward into autumn~~emotionally and in every other way.  The heat is actually starting to come on in my house.  If that isn't a sure sign of fall, I don't know what is!
 Today, I am changing it up from what I usually do and sharing some baking.  To be honest, baking is not my forte and I really should leave it to professional baking bloggers but, since the cake is all done and turned out kind of cute, I thought I would share it with you anyway :).


The inspiration for my whole baking experiment came from this container of Halloween sprinkles I found in my cupboard.  They were cute and definitely "fallish".  Ideas started brewing in my head.

My thoughts crystallized into making a patchwork quilt cake and using these sprinkles to create the quilt pattern for the cake.  I found a cake mix in the cupboard and off I went ->->

Full disclosure:  I would rather have used a chocolate cake mix but red velvet was all I could find in my cupboard.  So, red velvet it was!  More disclosure:  I added chocolate chips to the cake batter because my husband loves dark chocolate sooooo much and I thought, "What could it hurt?"

After baking the cake and letting it cool, I made some basic frosting.  My goal was to get the color of the frosting as orange as possible.  This peach color was the best I could do :/  (I told you I should leave the baking to the professionals.) Thankfully, the sprinkles would cover most of the frosting anyway.

Next, I started to construct the quilt part of the cake.  I used popsicle sticks to outline the grid for the patchwork pattern.  I tried to make the squares as equal as possible by using a measuring tape.



Since I didn't feel the cake looked as pretty as it could with just the patchwork, I started wondering what else I could do to improve it.  With the help of Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats and some candy pumpkins, I decided to use the patchwork quilt as a background for a candy pumpkin patch.  

I used the Mini Wheats to make the "hay bales" and the candy pumpkins to create the "patch".  So much fun!  It was easy too.

I used a cracker to make the pumpkin patch sign.  Since I used a regular marker to write the lettering on the cracker, it is not edible.  I'll have to be sure no one tries to eat it!  As I continued to look at the cake at this point, I still wasn't content.  It was still missing something.

 I decided to use the popsicle sticks to make a faux fence to separate the square patches and finally I

was happy with the result.





In the end, I was pleased with the look of the cake.  I still should have left this kind of work to the

professionals but, I was happy enough :). 


Any hoo, I'm sure the cake will be tested and tasted today, at some point.  Cake doesn't last long in our house :).  I'll let you know how the chocolate chips in the red velvet cake mix turned out!

Happy Fall, All!

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3 comments:

  1. Beverly @Across the BlvdOctober 2, 2017 at 9:48 PM

    This is so cute! What a great idea for a fall dessert. Thanks for sharing at Snickerdoodle. Pinning.

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  2. Christinemitch81October 2, 2017 at 10:00 PM

    Thank you, Beverly :).

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