Pumpkin Cake

I have not made a homemade cake in a pretty long time and I was really surprised at how soft the frosting was, not in a good way, it was too soft really, hard to cover the cake and the black that I bought in the little tube ($3.76--never again!) was actually liquidy at first. When I made a pumpkin cake when the kids were little, it came out a lot better than this one but I had more to work with then (I believe I have thown away my cake decorating stuff, I can't find it anyway, what I wouldn't give to have my grandmothers stuff again).
Anyway, this will have to be good enough.

By the way, this is not actually pumpkin cake. They didn't have any box mixes of that. This is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.