There's going to be a thanksgiving party soon, so I'm trying out lots of pumpkin desserts. I bought 2 pumpking halves and one packet of frozen pumpkin, and that produces alot of mashed pumpkin. I've used not quite half and I've already made three pumpkin things.
But first, I had bananas, so there was
Banana Bread (from How to be...)
which I modified by adding buttermilk. Like previous attempts, the results were delicious and perhaps even softer than usual. I was going to eat one as a post-10K run snack and also share some with people at church, but I brought them to them family gathering and they all disappeared.
10 muffins can disappear really fast
So, on to the pumpkin things:
First,
Pumpkin Pudding (from my aunt's recipe)
which is simple, really, and lets the pumpkin flavour come out. Except for the eggs. I had a little trouble with the instruction "boil the pumpkin" because I boiled it for too long. This made the pumpkin hard to separate from its skin, and when I finally blended in pieces of pumpkin, there was a noticeable amount of skin still attached. This made the resulting and the final puree take on a distinctive greenish tinge. But it still tasted fine.
Second was
Pumpkin Pecan Bread (from The Cake Bible)
which was supposed to be a Pumpkin Walnut Ring but possesing neither walnuts nor a baby bundt pan, I replace them with pecans and a loaf pan respectively. I cut down on the required amount of nutmeg (I don't really like nutmeg- and the last time we used it we had the disastrous apple cake) and put in too much pumpkin. It took a long time to bake but I was pleased with the result. Very hearty and carrot-cake like, and not too sweet.
Third, today's venture, was
Pumpkin Muffins (from TJOC)
which had almost the same ingredients as above but added milk/cream and orange zest, giving it a lighter taste. I think I like this a bit better, but if the bread had cream cheese icing, I might defect.
pumpkin pudding. It looks greener in real life
pumpkin pecan bread. I like pecans more than walnuts. Walnuts seem to be a little too pale.
lonely pumpkin muffin. It looks adorable!
There's still more pumpkin, so still more baking in the days ahead.