I’ve been baking pumpkin recipes in search of a winner.
I have tried several pumpkin recipes over the last three weeks: pumpkin recipe 1 was pumpkin crumb cake muffins, recipe 2 was super-soft pumpkin cookies, and recipe 3 was pumpkin bread with maple glaze.
The first recipe was fine. Muffins are finicky in my opinion. I love eating them from cafes, but they are very low on my list of things that I like baking. I like baking cookies and sweet breads, because they don’t require quite as much perfection. I decided to make pumpkin muffins, because it was one of those semi-regular mornings I wake up at 2am and just want to get up and be alone in a quiet house filled with all the people I love sleeping. I’ve started to really enjoy some aspects of these quiet mornings. This was a Sunday morning, so I had breakfast waiting when everyone got up and we were about to head to church.
I wouldn’t make them again.
Moving on to super-soft pumpkin cookies. I found these while I was scrolling Pinterest/trying to fall asleep. I still love Pinterest. I liked these a lot. I couldn’t get them quite right tho. If you’re in the market for a muffin-top type of cookie, this is a great recipe. It was like a pumpkin meets a snickerdoodle cake. Super fun and enjoyable. Andrew and the girls thought these were great. And the four year old kitchen helper was in action for baking these.
Now we get to what I would consider the pumpkin recipe winner: pumpkin bread. I may just be partial to pumpkin bread because it is a great creation. For this pumpkin bread recipe, I used the wrong size bread baking pan because Andrew had used it for a BBQ thing and it’s a goner. The bread batter overflowed all over my oven and made the house smell like it was on fire from the parts that dripped down getting burnt up *AND* IT STILL CAME OUT TASTING FANTASTIC!! That(!) is my kinda recipe. A recipe that can be knocked around by life a bit and still come out triumphant. The only change I’d make to this next time is 1) using the right size baking pan and 2) forgoing the crumble for mini chocolate chips. 10 outta 10 recommend this recipe.
Do you have any go-to sweet pumpkin recipes you love? I’d love to hear about them.
I’ve been craving pumpkin baked goods recently too! I made this recipe just this week! https://www.thevanillabeanblog.com/creamy-pumpkin-streusel-coffee-cakes/ I used a 9×13 pan and it came out great (though it made SO MUCH coffee cake- way more than my two-person household needs!)
oooo yum!
I love Sally’s Baking Recipes! Her muffins are good and I also like her pumpkin bread recipe. So always leave out the chocolate chips because I don’t like that combo.
New York Times pumpkin cornbread is so yummy! https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1013364-pumpkin-cornbread
Yum! I made pumpkin bread with a cream cheese swirl, but I’ll have to try this one out.
Love pumpkin recipes! Two that are so good I wrote them down and make on repeat: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/pumpkin-muffins-recipe/ and https://natashaskitchen.com/easy-pumpkin-cake-recipe/. Make the muffins often and they freeze great. The cake is my go-to as pumpkin dessert, easy and tasty!
I am making that pumpkin cake! Thanks, Julie!
I make Sally’s Baking Addiction pumpkin bread 10x a fall. I love that it is one bowl.
I have been wanting to try an “easy” recipe for pumpkin cookies:
1 can pumpkin, 1 duncan hines spice cake mix, 1 t. pp spice & 1 1/2 c. white choc chips. Bake @ 375 for 10 min! Frosting: 8 oz. cream cheese, 1 stick butter, 1 t. maple extract & 4 c. xxx sugar. Think they would be good with or w/out frosting! Love your little updates Kylie!!! :)
I recently made the pumpkin bread recipe in this post. It’s IS awesome! Thank you so much!!
WOOHOO!!
https://www.browneyedbaker.com/pumpkin-cupcakes-with-cream-cheese-frosting/?
I just saw this and thought I’d share. :)