A Good Day for Food!

I’ve mentioned baking in my last two posts, and last night I even dreamt about baking! So I thought it would be good to get some of that out of my system. The easy way, but the delicious way.

First of all, I don’t know if what I made qualifies as muffins or cupcakes. I was going to call them muffcakes but that can definitely be taken the wrong way, so I’m going with Pumpkin Joys. I recognize I should probably link to the website where I found the recipe but its suchย an adaptable and easy recipe that I’m not sure if it would make sense to give credit! Anyway, this is how it went:

IMG_0356Not a riveting picture, I know, but this is literally all that went into the recipe. I doubled it, so one big can of pureed pumpkin, and two boxes of yellow/golden cake mix. Done. Well, thats what the website said. The commenters said they were a bit bland in the end so I added about a tablespoon of pumpkin pie spice. Good decision.

IMG_0359I tried to mix this beast by hand with a wooden spoon, and failed miserably in just a few minutes. Sooo much cake mix, and seemingly not enough wet. So I threw the responsibility at my Kitchenaid mixer and walked away for about fifteen seconds, coming back to beautiful batter! My favorite thing about the batter was that I could eat it. Raw. Honestly, I’m not afraid to eat cookie dough, eggs and all, but knowing this was just dry ingredients and pumpkin felt even better. Only a short 20 minutes later…

IMG_0362Aren’t they beautiful? I bought some cream cheese thinking they would be divineย with icing on top. And they would be! But they don’t need it ๐Ÿ™‚ Of course we can’t forget some minis for Dekker…

IMG_0363He loves them too. Complete success in the kitchen! And our house smelled amazing. Felt good to accomplish something with 100% success. I really don’t think I would have done anything different. They are perfect.

Lucky for us, Brady had a short day and came home for lunch. We played with Dekker and watched “Away We Go” while he napped. For dinner, we made big, delicious salads with chicken and bacon and sunflower seeds and my homemade honey mustard dressing. SO delicious. I know, some of you are probably thinking “Salad? Thats it?” But seriously, its so yummy and we each had a heaping bowlful. Huh. Who knew ‘bowlful’ was a word?! Learn something new every day I guess! Like how to make Pumpkin Joys.

*drool* Super disappointed that the food part of the day is over.

elvira

Looks so Good! I can almost smell it! My fun, was making Sourdough bread yesterday. Would love that Honey mustard dressing recipe!?:)

elvira

Looks so Good! I can almost smell it! My fun, was making Sourdough bread yesterday. Would love that Honey mustard dressing recipe!?:)