Christmas in October

We had fun yesterday at R.S. meeting. We had our annual Christmas in October in which we meet, do crafts and have a "pumpkinlicious" meal. I, myself, had never had the meal in a pumpkin, but I do believe that I will have it again!(Really good) We also had pumpkin bread, pumpkin butter, pumpkin brownies, salad, cranberry spread and another dessert that I had prepared the night before for our hand and foot get-together. I do believe that this was the easiest dessert that I have EVER made! I know that it has been around for awhile, because I know that one of my friends had made it years(at least 20) before, but I had thought that it was okay and she had told me how easy it was, but who knows why I didn't listen back then. ANYWAY, you have to try this, it is really good and it makes a good presentation as well. I served it Friday night warm with vanilla ice cream (VERY GOOD), then I served it Saturday just the dessert that I scooped into cupcake paper cups. Still very good! Okay, so here it is. It is called 'fumble free' cake.
Take one can of cherry pie filling, pour it into a 9X13 baking dish, then add a can of crushed pineapple (you can stir it together if you want, but if you pour it out of the cans fairly evenly and on top of each other, that is fine too)Now, the hard part.....open a box of yellow cake mix....any kind....sprinkle it over the pie filling and pineapple....yeah, that was the "hard" part - those boxes are hard to open sometimes! Then sprinkle a cup of coconut over that, then a cup of mixed nuts over that and drizzle 6 tablespoons of melted butter and then bake at 350 for about 30 minutes until golden brown. Served with vanilla ice cream!!!!!
Actually, I didn't even measure the coconut or the nuts, I just guessed. The picture above is when I scooped it up and put it into the cupcake paper cups, so it does make a pretty picture.
I also made the pumpkin brownies, but that was a little too detailed and I really don't like pumpkin all that much, so,.......I can bypass that one.
Now, for the craft part of it. We made teaspoon angels with "just a spoon full of love", then we made wreaths with shells and then we made colored blocks of wood with our favorite sayings or words on them and decorated them. We also decorated bottles for 'whatever"....pencil holders, votives, sand and sea shells, etc. Very cute and inexpensive gifts for anyone.