Recipes

[house_cat]

I'd like to bake mini-bundt cakes or muffins for my coworkers and there are too many recipes out there.  Can you please share your favorite pumpkin bread or pumpkin muffin recipes?

Thank you.

[Nightowlz]

I use the recipe in from the Betty Crocker cookbook. It's really yummy. The recipe calls for shortening so I replaced that with canola oil since it was suppose to be healthier. Since it's not healthier I now use KerryGold butter. This is the only pumpkin bread recipe I have ever made. I don't need to try any others since we really like this one. I have been making it for years.

1 c butter

2 2/3 c sugar

4 eggs

1 can pumpkin (1 lb)

2/3 c water

3 1/3 c all purpose flour

2 tsp soda

1 1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp cloves

1 c chopped walnuts

Heat Oven to 350°

Bake 70 mins or until toothpick comes out clean

Grease 2 -  9 x 5 x 3 loaf pans

In large bowl mix oil & sugar, stir in eggs, pumpkin & water

Blend in flour, soda, salt, baking powder, cinnamon & cloves

Stir in nuts

I also make these in the smaller 5 x 3 1/2 x 2 tin pans bake about 50 mins.

[house_cat]

@Nightowlz

Thank you. It means a lot that you've tried it and can recommend it.  I have many cookbooks and there's so much info online - sometimes it becomes more confusing that it needs to be.

[VaBelle35]

Here is one from Cooking Light that I've made several times since it was published in 2009.  I've brought it to work, too, as it's easy to bake and take if you have a covered 9 x 13 pan.

Frosted Pumpkin Cake

[Nightowlz]

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@house_cat wrote:

@Nightowlz

Thank you. It means a lot that you've tried it and can recommend it.  I have many cookbooks and there's so much info online - sometimes it becomes more confusing that it needs to be.

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@house_cat I know what you mean. Groceries are too expensive to end up with a flop recipe. Let me know what you think about it if you try it. I think you will really like it. 

[VaBelle35]

These cookies are standard in my holiday baking.  I make them almost every year.  They are perfect for our office Thanksgiving Pot Luck:

Libby's Macadamia Nut, White Chocolate Pumpkin Cookies Recipe

[Nightowlz]

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@VaBelle35 wrote:

These cookies are standard in my holiday baking.  I make them almost every year.  They are perfect for our office Thanksgiving Pot Luck:

Libby's Macadamia Nut, White Chocolate Pumpkin Cookies Recipe

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@VaBelle35 Yum these sound good. I just bought some Macadamia nuts yesterday but don't think I have any white chips.

[chickenbutt]

I make a pumpkin bundt cake, also using a Betty Crocker recipe.  It might be the same as Nightowlz' , but I'll have to check it.   It's very good.

ETA - I just found the recipe I use and it isn't the same.  Mine uses Bisquick.  It's called 'Betty Crocker Pumpkin Ring Cake'.  I can put it up here if anybody wants it.  

[Nightowlz]

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@chickenbutt wrote:

I make a pumpkin bundt cake, also using a Betty Crocker recipe.  It might be the same as Nightowlz' , but I'll have to check it.   It's very good.

ETA - I just found the recipe I use and it isn't the same.  Mine uses Bisquick.  It's called 'Betty Crocker Pumpkin Ring Cake'.  I can put it up here if anybody wants it.  

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@chickenbutt Yes, please post. I got my Betty Crocker cookbook when I got married in 76.

[chickenbutt]

Happy to!     Actually, I also have a very old BC cookbook, but this one I got online a few years ago and thought it was very nice, and also easy.   While most here know me as being somebody who is not a fan of 'dump cooking', I rather like Bisquick, and have used it for numerous things over the years.

Here goes (have to type it up because I couldn't find it stored, so I hope it formats properly) - 

BETTY CROCKER PUMPKIN RING CAKE

Ingredients:

• 3 cups Original Bisquick Mix
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup butter (it says 'or margarine' but really - no!)
• 2 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice (I make my own & will add recipe)
• 1/4 cup milk
• 4 eggs
• 1 15oz can pumpkin puree (not that mix - just the pure puree)

GLAZE:

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tbl milk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

1.  Heat oven to 350F.  Grease & flour bundt cake pan

2.  Beat Bisquick, both sugars, butter, pumpkin pie spice, 1/4c milk, eggs, and pumpkin in lg bowl on low speed 30 seconds.  Beat on medium speed 3 minutes.  Spread in pan.

3.  Bake about 50 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.  Cool 10 minutes.  Turn upside down onto heatproof plate or rack.  Remove pan and allow cake to cool completely.

4.  Stir remaining ingredients (Glaze) until smooth and thin enough to drizzle.  Drizzle over cake.

**As to the milk in both parts - I seldom have milk on hand, since I don't like milk, so I've done this almost every time with water and it was perfect.  The amount of milk is so small that it really makes virtually no difference, plus I don't have to worry about it going sour.

PUMPKIN PIE SPICE MIX:

• 4T cinnamon
• 4t nutmeg
• 4t ginger
• 3t allspice

** (T = tablespoon; t = teaspoon