Yummy Pumkin Pie

Ok before getting started you want to pre-heat your oven to 425 degrees. 

Ingredients :

2 eggs
2 cups Pumpkin
3/4 cups sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 3/4 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 can (12oz) Evaporated milk

Put everything into a 5 cup blender and blend until totally smooth. Place your pie shells on your oven rack before hand so as to prevent as much spilling as you can. Fill pie shells and gently push into your oven cooking. Place in your oven at 425 for 15 minutes, then drop the temp to 350 and continue cooking for 45 minutes or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Allow to cool and enjoy :)

Perfect Pie Pastry

Yes it might be easier to grab the frozen shell front the freezer section, but if you want to make one from scratch that isn't going to make your head explode then here you go.

Ingredients :

3 cups of flour (sifted is better, but lets face it we dont all have a sifter these days)
1 tsp. salt
1 cup shortening
3/4 cups water with 1 tsp of vinegar mixed in

So if you have to sifter you want to sift your salt and your flour together into a large bowl. If not just lightly mix together with a fork till totally combined. Then cut in (Use a fork or something to break up and combine) the shorting into the dry ingredients in your bowl. Then slowly add in your water gradually stir mix as little as possible with your fork just till the particles cling together and you can form a dough ball.

This will make two 9 inch shells, or a top and a bottom.

No Bake Cookies

Ingredients:

1 stick butter or margarine
2 Cups White Sugar
1/2 Cup Milk
2 TBSPS Cocoa
dash salt
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup peanut butter
3 Cups Quick Oats

Directions

Bring first 5 ingredients to a rolling boil, and allow to boil for EXACTLY 2 min. Remove from the heat and add in your vanilla and peanut butter.  Continue to stir until your peanut butter has completely melted and then quickly add in your oats and mix well. Once all of your oats are fulling coated quickly drop spoonfuls of your mix onto wax paper or parchment paper and allow to rest for 10-15 minutes to allow them to set up completely.

Ralphine’s Chocolate Frosting

Looking for an out of the box frosting? This will give you a frosting that is much more like a fudge that is liquid and can be perfect for drizzling over a bunt cake. 

  Ingredients:

5 TBL Butter (1/2 stick)

1 cup Sugar

1/3 cup milk

1 cup chocolate chips

Directions: 

Melt butter, sugar and milk in saucepan and bring to a boil.  Boil for one minute while stirring. Be careful not to let it boil over.

Remove from heat; add chocolate chips and stir until chips are melted and smooth.

Frost cake.  Makes enough for 8 x 8 cake.

 

Note***Sometimes you have to put it back on the stove over LOW heat to get the chocolate to melt -- stirring constantly.  Be careful not to burn the chocolate.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

I am all for the easy recipes for those days when you need a sweet pick me up but dont have the time. And if it can be healthy at the same time all the better. Now I LOVE pumpkin cookies but hate waiting for Halloween to have them so I found a quick and easy way to make them that wont pack on those dreaded LBS. So what you will need:

First preheat your oven to 350 these dont take long to mix up.

Ingredients:
1 Box of Spice Cake mix.
1 large can of Pumpkin
1 bag of Dark Chocolate Chips (I use the dark Chocolate because A. the darker the chocolate the better it is for you and B. I like them more lol. But you could use whatever kind of chocolate you enjoy)

But that is all that goes into these bad boys. Mix them up in your mixer (or by hand if you dont have one just make sure all of the powder gets mixed in really well) I find it easier to mix the pumpkin and the dry cake mix together before adding the chocolate chips that way I can make sure everything is incorporated.Then spoon onto a greased cookie sheet (I like the messy looking dollops) and bake for 15 minutes. Pull out and let cool for 2 minutes or so on the cookie sheet and then transfer to your wire cooling wracks or waxed paper to finish cooling. And more important ENJOY THEM.


* note these could be gluten free if you can find a gluten free cake mix.

Pumpkin Nut Bread

*Note I have not tried this one, got it from my mom's recipe drawer.

3 cups sugar
2 cups pumpkin
4 eggs
1 cup oil
2/3 cups water

3-3 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup nuts

In a large bowl mix the first 5 ingredients thoroughly. Then add all the dry ingredients and mix well, adding the nuts last. Bake in 3 loaf tins lined with wax paper for 1 hour at 300 degrees.

(You can also add dates, raisins, gumdrops or candied fruit to the recipe. It is a very moist loaf and keeps very well.)

Jello Cake Anyone?

This bad boy is so easy to make the kids and help and they will be smiling the whole time.

You will need one white cake mix. One box of your favoret jello and whip cream, frosting, or berrys like us.

First mix up your cake mix as the box says and bake till done, In all just follow the box. If you are one of those super heros who can make a white cake from scratch I bow down to you and say go for it. 

Once you pull your cake from the over go ahead get your jello ready, you want to only do the boiling water portion because you just want the powder to disolve. Once that is mixed up take a butter knigh making small slits all over the cake and at different depths if you choose. Once your cake has enough slits take your Jello and pour it over the top. Once its all dumped over your cake (and if will kind of be sitting on top) slip it into your fridge and let it all set up. 

Now for the frosting part we took some frozen berries and ground them up into a mush. If it gets a little hard to grind you can add a little bit of water. Once its a mush add about 2 TBSPs of sugarand blend in. Once its all blended put in a sauce pan and bring to a boil for about 3 to 5 mins to keep it from seperating and place in a container to go into the fridge. Its best to let your cake set over night to make sure the jello sets up. 

Once you are ready to eat it cut it as normal and add your choosen topping right as you are surving it. And then enjoy! I know my kids did.