What? You've never heard of an orange flavored pie? Well, neither had I until my Dad made one. My Dad is a culinary experimenter. Sometimes his creations are pretty amazing. A couple of years ago he perfected a carrot pie. He uses the same spices as a pumpkin pie, just with carrot instead of pumpkin. And it takes almost exactly the same. (We'll be having some for Thanksgiving if you want a … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies
It's fall and I have been craving lots of pumpkin. Yesterday I made one of my favorite kinds of cookies, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.I found my recipe at Cooks.com. I can't seem to find it now, although it is very similar to this one (just without the nuts). I think this might be breakfast today … [Read more...]
2 ingredient pumpkin cake
My Mom pinned a recipe on Pinterest last week that was billed as a 2-ingredient pumpkin muffin recipe. I love pumpkin, as you might have guessed by recent food posts, and I was of course intrigued by the prospect of only two ingredients. I decided to use a yellow cake mix like in the picture (though the recipe says you can use any flavor of cake mix) and I added in my can of pumpkin I used … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Chocolate Bread
October is here and I'm ready to bake pumpkin-y things. Last week I saw a recipe for pumpkin blueberry bread with streusel topping. Well, the original recipe called for blueberries. In the blog I read she had substituted mini hershey kisses. The picture looked delicious and I knew I had to try some.So last night while my husband was at his softball game the kids and I mixed it up. (You can see the … [Read more...]
Wookies
Cookies that you make in a Waffle Iron = Wookies! I saw a picture of these yummy things awhile back and have been wanting to give them a try. I had a recommendation to use a cake mix cookie recipe to find them. I found a recipe for yellow cake mix cookies and tweaked it a little. my recipe chocolate cake mix 2 eggs 1/2 cup oil 2 tbsp water Mix all ingredients … [Read more...]