Everybody’s posting recipes for eyeball deviled eggs and punch with all squiggly bugs in and so forth. I’m like: YUCK!

So here’s a recipe for a dish that not only tastes good, it looks like it tastes good.

PUMPKIN DUMP CAKE

• 1 15-ounce can pumpkin — not pumpkin pie mix, just pumpkin
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 9-ounce box yellow cake mix (like Jiffy, for instance)
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 1/4 cup melted margarine

Preheat oven to 350F. Mix first six ingredients until well blended. Pour batter into a greased square pan. Sprinkle cake mix on top. Cover with pecans. Pour melted margarine over top. Bake about 45 minutes to an hour.

Can be doubled and baked in a rectangular pan.

Now, isn’t that nicer than wormy dirt and stuff?

A WRITING PROMPT FOR YOU: A character is invited to a theme party which, when he or she gets there, is a theme the character doesn’t appreciate.

MA