Eet smakelijk, eet-het-met plezier!

In the Fall I just can't have enough pumpkin goodness and I wanted to make something that takes me back to my childhood. My mom was always baking something on a Saturday morning and many times it would be yummy pumpkin muffins. The recipe comes from our family cookbook which was compiled by my mom and aunts while I was literally a bun in the oven. My mom saved the books for my sister and I and we cherish the recipes! Look forward to some dutch delights in the future! There are some great ones in this book and I love to make them!
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I just love the cover with my oh so Dutch great-grandparents. My grandpa was one of 12 kids and so there is much love that went into these recipes and into the food. I just can't imagine baking for 14 people every time I want some sweets! They would be gobbled up in no time and these muffins are no exception!


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My sweet Aunt Glenda did all of the hand drawn art work within the book.


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I am really am spilling all the family secrets!
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1.5 cup sugar
1 cup oil ( I substitute half cup apple sauce and half cup oil-it is healthier and I like the hint of apple flavor -even more reminiscent of Fall!)
2 eggs
1.5 cup pumpkin
2.5 cup flour
1.5 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt
1.5 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon (add some extra and a little nutmeg if you want)
.5 teaspoon vanilla
.5 cup raisins (optional)
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Beat oil & sugar (and apple sauce if you are substituting) well. Add beaten eggs, pumpkin. Sift dry ingredients and add raisins and vanilla. Sprinkle muffins with sugar.
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Bake for 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees.


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YUMMMMM! I had to enjoy them with a cup of tea! My mom would be proud.

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Cheers to family traditions, comfort food, and the crispy Fall weather!

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xoxo,

Tipsy

p.s. The post title translates to "Tasty eats-eat with pleasure."

Cookies for Breakfast

This week the temperature FINALLY dropped in the hot hot desert and I was oh-so ready for some Fall inspired treats! I LOVE pumpkin everything! I had already made my bossy cakes in anticipation of the crispy air and when it finally did arrived I wanted to try something new....how can you make pumpkin even yummier?-add chocolate!
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I found this recipe for Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies and I am so glad that I did!
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1 cup butter
3/4 cups brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon ( I added a bit more-love love love cinnamon!)
1 c. pumpkin puree
1.5 c. chocolate chips (of course, I added more)
1 c. cooking oats
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Cream butter & sugars
Add Egg & Vanilla
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Combine flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon
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Stir dry ingredients into butter/sugar mixture alternately withe the pumpkin puree. Then add chocolate chips
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Bake at 350 degrees for 11-12 minutes.
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Can't wait to make some brandied cider to go with these sweet little babies!
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These are so yummy and I must confess that I have been eating them for breakfast! I think the oats and pumpkin make them an acceptable breakfast food, what do you think?!



Cheers to being an adult and being able to eat cookies for breakfast...Next time I will call them pumpkin scones...the hubs won't know any better and then there will be more for me anyways. ;)
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xoxo,
Tipsy

Monday Morning Prep

After a wonderfully enjoyable Sunday afternoon at the pool with a new beverage concoction that I will sooo have to educate you all about later, I am ready to bake something for my Monday blues tomorrow...

With the buttermilk leftover from those lovely red velvet delights, I start up some Buttermilk Biscuits with my own additions of some candied walnuts and dried cranberries with the intention to drench the things with butter and syrup, once they are browned up, to soak up my weekend fun before another week of work!

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Mixing up the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder & baking soda:

Chopping up 1/2 cup cold butter:

Adding the candied walnuts & cranberries,

Stirring in the Buttermilk..

The pre-baked beauties:

Even more exciting, there is a website called biscuitpower.com (new fan--- highlights the recipe I used)!

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http://biscuitpower.com/home-cooking/recipe-best-buttermilk-biscuits/

With the butter & syrup (my preview to breakfast tomorrow):

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DQ, it's not QUITE a breakfast feast, but it will have to do for now!

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This should shake my Monday blues away....let's make the week go faaaaassssssst my dears!

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XOXO,

Tipsy