I made a big batch of old-fashion soft pumpkin cookies tonight from scratch! The first dozen...
...okay, that's the next 8 pumpkin cookies. I may have claimed the first 4 for testing. I had to make sure they were good, of course!
If you want to make your own, I got the recipe here. I replaced the cinnamon and upped the nutmeg. Instead I used 3/8 tsp ginger & 1 1/8 tsp nutmeg. So good *nomnomNOM*!
xx ~Static
PS - Those awesome hand towels up top are by FabulouslyFierce.
I will have something fun to share with you on Monday but to tide you over here is something completely different...
I love Autumn and Winter with all the pumkin-y goodness but guess what? I can't have most of it because the mass amounts of cinnamon gives me migraines. Cinnamon is a trigger for some of us migraine sufferers, which sucks because it is delicious. Alas, it is my nemesis. As is citrus. Evil, evil citrus. What's worse is I'll go so long without having either that I forget (yes, forget) to check for them, and then, wham! Migraine.
Anywho, I'd like to share my version of a Pumpkin Muffin recipe with you. Mmmm, Pumkin Muffin. I can eat these until I'm rolling on the floor like a flipped over turtle. The only discomfort being my waistband digging into my full belly.
Cinnamon-free Pumpkin Muffins
Yield: 12 regular muffins
1 cup canned solid-pack pumpkin
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs
2 tsp faux vanilla extract (or 1 tsp real vanilla extract)
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350°F. Put liners in 12 muffin cups.
Small mixing bowl - Whisk together all dry ingredients.
Large mixing bowl - Whisk together with a fork: pumpkin, oil, and eggs just until smooth.
Fold dry ingredients into wet ingredients until just combined.
Divide batter among the 12 muffin cups.
Bake until puffed and wooden pick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, apx 22-25 minutes.
Let the muffins cool in the pan on a rack for a few minutes (especially if you use foil liners, yowch!), transfer muffins to cooling rack. Enjoy!
They are delicious plain or you can make them more of a dessert and frost them. Cream Cheese Frosting is a favorite. xx
PS - I created the pic in Photoshop, if you haven't guessed they don't actually look like that. The last batch of real Pumpkin Muffins disappeared before I remembered the camera :D
Here are the goodies I sent to Nitebyrd, my stalkee this year.
Pumpkin jingle bell earrings, a witch eraser, Halloween foam stickers, 4 zombie rubber ducks &, la piece de resistance, a Bloody Zombie Head Pillow Slip Cover complete with pillow! Which, let me tell you, was not easy to find a box for. I had smush the pillow a bit to make it all fit. Hopefully things didn't get too wrinkly on it's way to the coast.
The Bloody Zombie Head Pillow Slip Cover is 16"x16", Grey Woven with an envelope back. The zombie silhouette is black synthetic felt with hand stitched blood accents in cranberry, edge stitched in green to the cotton print background, and framed in 3/8" black satin ribbon, mitered corners and all.
What Nitebyrd had to say about it:
"Static, I seriously LOVE it so much, I want to carry it around like a woobie. I really do!
THANK YOU!!!"
xx ~Static
A kitten padded through the pumpkin patch unseen except for the occasional glow of his neon green eyes. The vines thicken until a pumpkin almost the size of Kitten's head blocked the way. He figured the easiest way around would be over so he hunkered down, gave his booty a little wiggle and executed a most graceful little hop to clear it. At least he thought he was being graceful until his paw caught in a vine. As undignified as a face-plant in the vine tangled dirt can be he managed to bounce up like he meant to land like that. That's when he heard a rustling snicker behind him. The kitten immediately spun about and made himself look as big as possible. There was nothing there but the pumpkin. Deciding the snickering was really only the wind the kitten proceeds to kick dirt on the offending gourd.
"Hey! Do you mind? You got dirt in my eyehole!"
"A-a-a talking pumpkin?!", the kitten hissed.
"Well aren't you just Captain Obvious. I could say the same, you know. A-a-a talking kitten?!", the pumpkin teased while flicking dirt out of it's eyehole with a long twisted vine.
The kitten glared at the pumpkin and decided now was a good time to clean and straighten his back fur.
"Look, sorry for tripping you but I've no one to talk with in this dank patch. I mean look around, they all just sit there like a bunch of lumps studiously ignoring one another. I mean, what's the point of being able to talk if you just go about ignoring everyone and thing?"
"So...", the kitten mushroomed and then settled ramrod straight, "All the veggies here can talk?"
"No just the pumpkins. At least here in this patch. Something to do with a curse. Or something silly like that. And technically we're fruit not veggies. Anyway, it doesn't matter. They", the chatty gourd waves a vine around, "won't say a word. Not even a good day or howdedo. Eyes shut and mouths closed, we're just plain old pumpkins here. Lazy lumpkins more like."
"Well at least some know when they should be quiet." the kitten sniffed looking about.
"Oh come on. Don't be like that. I said I was sorry. I'm just bored is all. Maybe we could work something out? You get me out of here and I'll make it up to you."
"Pff, what can you do? Can you turn yourself into a pie? A nice warm pie with a saucer of milk would be great right about now."
"Alright, enough of that. " The pumpkin scratches where his chin would have been if he had one in thought. "First off I'm Ebil Pumpkin. The others named me that though I don't see why. Just because I get up to mischief now again." Ebil Pumpkin paused dreamily for a moment before shaking himself out of his reverie. "You can just call me Ee. You know like "eek" but with out the 'k'." Chuckling at his lame joke, "And you are...?"
"Devious. Devious Kitten. But you can call me Dee."
"Well, Dee... Dee & Ee, I like that. Well, Dee, you do look like the sneaky sort", which Dee immediately harumphed at but didn't put much heart behind, "so I suppose I could serve as a lookout, and I am good at tangling up feet as you might have noticed."
"You're not helping yourself, you know. You're lucky I'm bored too or I'd be so out of here. Cans to dump, dogs to spook and all that."
"Mmhmm. I can be good company.", hurrying to continue past the slit eyed glared Dee shot him, "I know, I know. I can be a tad chatty but I can be quiet when needed. Really I can."
It was Dee's turn to say, "Mmhmm."
"I can, uh, scowl with the best of them. See? Grr." Dee sighs heavily "Ok, fine. I'm lonely, alright. Happy now? Please just get me out of here. I'm losing my mind to sheer and utter boredom of it all. I need to get out and see the world before I wither away to nothing. I can tell you all sorts of stories and we could be friends. Everyone needs a friend now again right? Oh and you can hide things in me. Look at all the space." Ee opens his mouth wide for Dee to peer in and it does seem to go on forever.
After a good long thoughtful stare Dee sighs, "I'm so going to regret this.", and hefts the surprising light Ee onto his back. As Ee wraps his vines around to keep himself steady Dee wobbles a bit. "Not around the middle! Don't you know anything about cats? Sheesh."
"Oh right, sorry." says Ee as he resettles himself like a backpack. Dee shakes his head, as he takes off into the night, at the thought of a kitten toting around talking pumpkin but there are stranger things. Stranger things by far.
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Devious Kitten & Ebil Pumpkin Plush can be found in my Etsy shop!
xx ~Static
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