The 13 Days of Pumpkin: A Cake with a Dirty Name

(Sad news: Scanner and Computer are still not getting along.  They are in therapy, working on their issues, and we are hoping to come to an amicable resolution as soon as possible.  EDIT:  These issues are fixed.  Clearly.)

I can see this fella being turned into a carriage, can't you?

ZOMG!  YOU GUYS!  I did something awesome tonight.  I had (lots of) leftover pumpkin soup and some leftover glazed walnuts from the pudding, so I garnished the soup with the walnuts and it was awesome.  Seriously.  You should try it and find out for yourself.

Okay, awesome leftover magic ramble over.  Let's get on with today's recipe: Pumpkin Dump Cake.  Not THAT kind of dump, you nasty little sillies (Jamie, I'm looking at you)!  The dump cake is a crazy easy kind of culinary masterpiece that might be exclusive to the southern regions of this great country of ours, as I'd never heard of such a thing before migrating this way.  I first heard tell of it from a former roomie (from a former house) whose family made dump cakes of various...er...varieties on camping trips (apparently they're great for Dutch ovens.  Oh please, seriously?  Dump cakes and Dutch ovens?  We can't escape the grade school toilet humour, can we?!).  The premise of a dump cake is that you just dump ingredients into a cooking vessel--nothing swanky or complicated.

You're welcome.

So here's what we do for this dump cake: Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and spray a 9"x13" baking pan.  In a large bowl, combine a 15 ounce can of pumpkin, a 10 ounce can of evaporated milk (or two 5 ounce cans as I had to do because the store I was in only had them in 5 and 12 ounce cans.  Incidentally, if this stuff is supposed to be evaporated, why is there still liquid in the can?), 1 cup brown sugar, 3 eggs and 3 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice.  Dump this into your prepared pan.  Dump 1 box yellow cake mix on top of this (well, more like sprinkle it over top as evenly as possible).  Then dump coarsely crushed graham crackers and coarsely chopped walnuts on top of that (again, really more a sprinkle).  Finally, dump 1 cup (2 sticks) melted butter over the whole shebang, throw it in the oven and bake 45-50 minutes, or until the center is set and the edges are nicely browned.  It's a tasty little contraption, I can tell you that!