Baking weather is here and .... It's a tossup - Banana Muffins or Orange Pumpkin. Both are delicious, but for some reason I only think to bake the Orange Pumpkin kind between Halloween and Christmas. They would be good year round. But since its time to have some, here is the recipe.
Preheat oven to 350
2/3 c butter
2 2/3 c sugar Cream together
1 orange Pureed w/ skin (I cut the thick ends a
bit)
3 eggs 16 oz pumpkin Add to butter/sugar
1/2 to 1 c milk Stir in to mixture
3 1/3 c flour
2 t baking soda
1 t cinnamon
1/2 t cloves or 1 t cardamom (I prefer Cardamom)
1/2 t salt
1/2 t baking powder Mix all and add to batter
2/3 c chopped pecans
2/3 c chopped dates (or dried cranberries or raisins or cherries or?) add to
mixture
Mix and drop ice-cream scoop dollops into paper-lined muffin cups
Bake: 25 min for muffins / 15 min for mini muffins / 1 hr and 10 min for 2
loafs (my hot oven is only 50 min for loaves - test with toothpick)
Makes 24 muffins. These are particularly good with cream cheese. For breakfast.
Whoa cardamom must really be a distinctly great flavor. You guys have bake list for the holidays?
ReplyDeleteCardamom is my new fav partner for Cinnamon. Ivy loved the orange pumpkin muffins with Cardomom rather than cloves so I tried it in the standby banana muffins and she didn't like that combo. It was more spice cake like where the orange pumpkin are strong enough to take the spice. If cloves are in a recipe, I almost always skip or half the amount since its kind of strong.
ReplyDeleteOh, and the baking list includes: pumpkin pie and pecan pie, baklava, chocolate cheese cake, and cookies for Thanksgiving. The rest of the list includes Rum Balls, Cherry Christmas Cookies, fudge (Steve's job), cutout sugar cookies, and whatever else inspires. Alaina is now the cookie/cheesecake maker and Ivy is making Baklava right now. MMMMMM Let the eating begin!
ReplyDeleteWow! super list. Keep me posted on how it comes out. Especially the baklava. I agree on the cardamom. Once i spiced some cookies with it, and measured by smell (yep, by smell). The cookies were so cardalicious that it was overpowering and I ended up burping the spice up for literally days. Agreed there are worse things, but my note-to-self take it easy on teh Cardamom.
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