Favorite Pumpkin Recipes

Fall is in the air here in Northern California.  Fall is my favorite season because of the crisp mornings, the leaves thinking about changing colors, football and last but certainly not least.....everything PUMPKIN.

I'm a pumpkin fan.  From pumpkin spice lattes to pumpkin muffins, I can't get enough.  I even stocked up on pumpkin scented candles.

To celebrate Fall, here are some of my favorite, from scratch, pumpkin recipes.....

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins (click to see recipe)

Healthy Pumpkin Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies....you can eat these for breakfast!

Dreamy Pumpkin Ice Cream from Scratch.....oh so good.

I hope you're enjoying your ease in to fall as much as I am.  ~Nancy

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Everything Pumpkin

October means everything pumpkin for me.  I love harvest time, I love the colors and I love pumpkin.

A few weeks ago when Paige and I were at the Harvest Fair I came across the vendor booth, Live-For-More-Fudge, inc.  They were selling all types of different flavored fudge.  They had chocolate of course, cookies and cream, peanut butter chocolate swirl, raspberry chocolate swirl, mint chocolate swirl, chocolate cabernet, chocolate chardonnay, chocolate jalapeno, and Pumpkin Pie....just to name a few.  As most of you know by now, I love pumpkin everything and I made a purchase of a small sized pumpkin pie flavored fudge.

This morning was the first time I tried it.  Yes, I said this morning.  I thought what a perfect thing to top my toast with {and maybe it'll keep me from heading to the coffee shop for a pumpkin spice misto!}

It was really good and I just wanted to share with you, just in case you come across some pumpkin pie fudge in the near future......you may want to try some yourself.

Happy Fall!

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Mini Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins for Fall

With fall, comes one of my very favorite flavors....pumpkin.  Pumpkin lattes, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin custards, pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin ice cream....not to get side-tracked but have you ever tasted pumpkin ice cream?  It is now one of my favorite flavors.  Ever since finding it at Safeway by accident  over near their gelato counter, I love it.  I don't shop at Safeway all that often, maybe three times a month or so, but when I was at a brand new Safeway in our town, I found this creamy pumpkin ice cream in a pint container over in the deli section near the gelato bar.  I think I ate the entire thing all myself.  I would actually try to eat it when the kids weren't around because I didn't want to share!  Isn't that just horrible!  But it is that good.

So, I was craving pumpkin.  I came up with these little, mini muffins of joy.

Here's what you need....

Whisk the sugar, salt, oil, eggs and water all together.

So it looks like this.....

Add the remaining ingredients {see below for recipe}.

Fill a mini muffin baking tray with the batter.

Bake at 350 degrees for 18 minutes.

Enjoy!

Okay, here's the recipe:

Mini Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins

1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup canola oil
2 eggs
1/3 cup water
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup canned pumpkin
3/4 cup chocolate chips {or nuts}

Mix sugar, salt, oil, eggs, water all together in a bowl.  Then add spices, baking soda, flour , pumpkin and chocolate chips.  Grease a mini-muffin pan with Pam, fill with batter and bake at 350 degrees for 18 minutes.  These can be made ahead of time if you're having a party and frozen until you're ready to serve them.

Happy Saturday!

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