When many of us think pumpkins we don’t think of sweet and mouth-watering desserts, but truth be told pumpkins can make for delicious and moist cakes, pies, and cookies.
Below we explore some of our favorite desserts using pumpkin as a base and teamed up many times with one of our favorite ingredients–chocolate!
Two of our favorite ingredients, pumpkin and chocolate chips whipped together in one amazingly moist and decadent pumpkin cake. This cake can be made up as a sheet cake, bundt cake or as pumpkin chocolate chip cupcakes. The following recipe makes a 8′ x 8″ square cake, with the recipe doubled it will make a two-layer cake or a 13″ x 9″ sheet cake.
1 stick butter, melted and cooled
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 brown sugar
3 large eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin puree
1 teaspoon vanilla extract or substitute 2 tablespoons brandy
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1/3 cup milk
1 cup small chocolate chips
Everyone from Betty Crocker to your best friends’s grandma in the south has a recipe for pumpkin cookies of some type. Many pumpkin cookies are chewy and need no extra eggs because the pumpkin acts like eggs in the recipe. But–if you want a melt in your mouth soft pumpkin cookie, nothing beats homemade, do read on!
1/2 cup butter, softened or appropriate amount of olive oil
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup pumpkin puree
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 large egg
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup butter softened
4 ounces cream cheese softened
1 teaspoon brandy or vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Enjoy these mouth-watering Pumpkin Spice Cookies iced with Cream Cheese Icing and also our Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cake recipe. We took some ideas from our grandma’s recipe cards and some of favorite online recipe sources and then tried these ideas in our test kitchen with our family as willing testers. Great afternoon snack with coffee or tea or a wonderful dessert to serve after dinner. Be sure to shop Tastealotta for all your olive oil needs. Olive makes a great substitute for baking instead of butter!
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