How I Carve Jack-O-Lanterns: Part 4 - Other Types of Carvings and Preserving Your Pumpkin

In this final video, I go over less traditional ways to make a jack-o-lantern, demonstrate how to preserve and revive your jack-o-lantern, and how you can cook your pumpkin. Two of my favorite recipes are below:
Iced Pumpkin Cookies
1 cup butter-flavored shortening
1 cup sugar
1 cup pumpkin
1 egg
2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
½ tsp. salt
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream together shortening and sugar. Add pumpkin and egg and mix well. Add dry ingredients. Drop on cookie sheet by half to full tablespoon. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges start to turn brown.
Icing:
3 tbsp. butter
4 tsp. milk
½ cup brown sugar
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Cook butter, milk, and brown sugar in sauce pan until sugar melts. Let it cool slightly, then add powdered sugar and vanilla and stir until creamy. Ice while cookies and icing are warm.
Pumpkin Cake
2 cups sugar
2 cups pumpkin
1 1/3 cups oil
4 eggs
2 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Blend sugar, pumpkin, oil, and eggs in a large bowl. Add flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice; blend together. Pour into bundt pan or rectangle pan (I spray the pan with cooking spray that has flour in it before pouring). Bake for 45 minutes, then check cake (toothpick will come out clean when done). If not done, lower temperature to 300 degrees and bake for 10 more minutes or until done. After cake has cooled, frost with cream cheese frosting or with a double or triple batch of the frosting using the Iced Pumpkin Cookie icing recipe.

[@Hexadecimate]

I really appreciate you for making these pumpkin carving videos! Your tone is calming and you remind me of carving pumpkins with my dad when I was younger in the 90's. Thank you!

[@jwbowl1]

@@Hexadecimate I'm glad you like them. I find carving to be very calming myself.