Pumpkin Spice Cake with Pumpkin Butter Filling:

Cake:

1 box Spice cake mix

6 TBS sifted cake flour

4 eggs

1 c. buttermilk

1/3 c. oil

2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350 degree's.  Mix all ingredients together, beating for 2 minutes on med. speed.  Pour about 1/4 cup of batter into each cupcake liner and bake for 15–20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cupcake comes out clean. Cool completely on wire racks. Torte and fill cake with filling.
 I have used Dickson's pumpkin butter in mine.

Butter Cream Frosting:

1 c. butter , softened

4 c. powdered sugar, sifted

4+ Tbsp. buttermilk 

2 Tbsp. vanilla extract

1 Tsp. Pumpkin Pie Spice 

2 drops orange food color.

DIRECTIONS:

Whip butter until fluffy. Add in powdered sugar, about 1 cup at a time. Mix in 1 Tbsp. buttermilk after each addition of powdered sugar, repeating these steps until the frosting is well mixed and hold peaks. Add vanilla extract and pie spice, and mix thoroughly. Use additional powdered sugar if needed to thicken frosting. Ice cake as desired. 

*Decorating tips:

-I have a lot of little fondants decorations on my cake as you can see here. Those we done using simple punch outs that you can find on ebay or amazon for cheap.

-Tutorials on how to work with fondant can be found on youtube.

-If you want to fill your cake, this is the link to tell you how to do that:

http://www.wilton.com/cakes/making-cakes/filling-cake-layers.cfm