Pumpkin muffins

Ate them so quickly forgot to take a picture...but they were nummy

Pumpkin Muffins
1 serving cooking spray (5 one-second sprays per serving)
18 1/4 oz unprepared yellow cake mix ---instead of eggs/oil/water use 1/3 cup apple sauce, makes it REAL moist and so low in calories/fat
12 oz. canned pumpkin
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp. ground cloves

Coat two, 12-hole muffin tins with cooking spray.
Combine cake mix, pumpkin and spices in a large bowl and beat until light.
Divide batter among muffin tins and bake according to directions for cake mix.
Yields 1 muffin per serving.

POINTS = 2
Servings = 24

Apple Brown Crisps - Sweet, Light, & Yummy

This is what happened to some of my apples after apple picking on saturday

3 apples, preferably Granny Smith
7 slices wheat bread
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) regular/salted butter
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
3 to 4 tablespoons water

Peel apples and slice them. Slice bread into a small dice, or tear into very small pieces. Coat baking dish with butter, then add 1/3 of the brown sugar, 1/3 of the apple slices, and 1/3 of the breadcrumbs. Repeat twice more, ending with breadcrumbs. Slice butter and lay slices all over the top of the bread crumbs. Sprinkle dish with water and a little more brown sugar, and bake in a 375-degree oven, covered in foil, until done—about 45 minutes. Remove foil in last few minutes of baking to brown the top.

Cookies!!

I made these cookies last night and I brought half of them into work, I put them out at 8:15 and its 8:36 and they are all gone...Two things could be going on here.
1. My work people are pigs
2. There really good cookies

I'm hoping its two but you make them and be the judge of that.

8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cold – cut into chunks
¾ cup granulated sugar
¾ cup packed brown sugar
2 large eggs- I realized 2 isnt enough so I mixed 2 & the egg white of a third one
2 teaspoon vanilla
3 ¼ cups all purpose flour (13 ½ oz)
¾ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
12 ounces (2 cups) good quality semisweet chocolate chips or chopped chocolate
1 cup nuts (pecans or walnuts)

If using dough right away, preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

In a mixing bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and both sugars just until creamy. Don’t overbeat. Add the egg and vanilla and beat just until incorporated.

Stir together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. When thoroughly mixed, add to batter and stir just until blended. Stir in chips and nuts. Dough should be neither too sticky, nor too dry.

Divide dough into 12 big 4 oz lumps. Bake on ungreased cookies sheets (one sheet at a time).
Bake times:

Put the cookies in a 375 degree oven and set timer for 8 minutes. When timer rings, without opening oven or removing cookies, reduce heat to 325 degrees and bake for another 8-10 minutes or until cookies appear set.

Otherwise, you can bake at 350 for 18-22 minutes or until done

Yogurt Marmalade Cake

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 heaping cup of plain, lowfat yogurt
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
Zest of 1 lemon
1/2 cup Canola oil
1/2 cup prepared orange marmalade
1/4 cup yogurt


DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray loaf pan with nonstick baking spray (or grease and flour it if it makes your skirt fly up.) Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. In a separate bowl, mix together yogurt, sugar, eggs, vanilla, lemon zest, and canola oil until just combined. Pour over dry ingredients and mix until just combined; do not overbeat. Pour into loaf pan and bake for 45 minutes. Remove and allow to cool slightly. Remove from pan. While cake is cooling, pour marmalade into pan. Heat until melted, stirring occasionally. Add yogurt to pan and turn off heat. Stir to combine, then pour slowly over the top of the cake, allowing icing to pool around the sides.

before

after marmalade topping

Apple dumplings

INGREDIENTS

2 Granny smith Apples
2 Pillsbury Crescent rolls
2 Sticks of salted butter
1 ½ cups Sugar
1 teaspoonVanilla
Cinnamon
12 oz can of Mountain Dew


DIRECTIONS

Peal, core and cut into 8 slices, the two apples
Butter a 9 x 13 sheet baking pan
Unroll the two cans of Pillsbury crescent rolls
Roll up each apple slice in each of the crescent rolls
Lay each one into the buttered pan
Melt the two sticks of salted butter and pour in sugar
Barely stir together and pour in the vanilla
Pour in the mixture over the dumplings making sure to thoroughly coat them.
Pour in the mountain dew on the sides and the middle of the apple dumplings, and sprinkle cinnamon
Bake at 350 degrees for 45min.

Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies

Level of difficulty- Easy

INGREDIENTS

2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract


DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients. Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls, and place onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden. Let stand on cookie sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks.

Crumb cake!

I made this the other day for the first time and it was absolutely amazing. I shouldnt be eating this but it was so good and then I gave it all away because I couldnt have it sit in my house.

If anyone tries the recipe let me know how it turned out.

INGREDIENTS

Cake
1/2 cup margarine or butter
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
3/4 cup milk
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla

TOPPING
1/2 cup margarine or butter
1 cup sugar
2 cups biscuit mix
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/4-1/2 cup powdered sugar

DIRECTIONS

Cream butter and sugar.
Beat eggs and milk; mix with butter.
In another bowl, mix flour and baking powder, then add to butter mixture.
Stir in vanilla.
Pour batter into a greased 9 x 13 pan.
For crumb topping: Cut butter into sugar, biscuit mix, and cinnamon.
Sprinkle over batter in pan.
Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until done.
Top with the 1/4 - 1/2 C powdered sugar when cool.