Pumpkin Muffins & Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Here's another 2 recipes in 1 post. Both SO yummy!
Pumpkin Muffins

3 Eggs
1 c. Sugar
2/3 c. Pumpkin
3/4 c. Flour
1/2 tsp. Baking Powder
1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
1/2 tsp. Cinnamon
1/2 tsp. Cloves
1/4 tsp. Salt

Preheat oven to 375'. Grease well a mini-muffin pan. Cream together the Eggs, Sugar, and Pumpkin. Then add all the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Once mixed fill each mini-muffin hole 3/4 of the way full with the batter. Bake for 8-10 min. Once they are done baking, quickly and carefully pull each mini-muffin out of the pan and let cool to allow for the frosting.



Cream Cheese Frosting

2 oz. Cream Cheese
2 Tbs. Butter
1 Tbs Milk
1 tsp. Vanilla
Powdered Sugar

Blend together the Cream Cheese and the Butter. Then add the milk and vanilla. Gradually add powdered sugar until it reaches your desired constancy. If it tastes good and it is easy to handle then you got it right. If it is still too thick, just add a little more milk.
Put the frosting in a plastic zipper bag. Trim the corner of the bag and gently squeeze the frosting out on the cooled muffins in swirls starting from the middle and work to the outside. Or just be simple and frost them like regular cupcakes, either way they will still taste great!



Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 c. Sugar
1 c. Pumpkin
1/2 c. Oil
1 Egg
2 c. Flour
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Cinnamon
2 tsp. Baking Powder
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 tsp. Milk
1 tsp. Vanilla
1-2 c. Chocolate Chips

Preheat oven to 375' and lightly grease cookie sheets. Cream together Sugar, Pumpkin, Oil, and Egg. Sift together Flour, Salt, Cinnamon, Baking Powder, and Baking Soda and add to the creamed mixture. Add the Milk and Vanilla, then gradually add the Chocolate Chips (Mini Chocolate Chips work great also!). Drop by spoonfuls and bake for 10-12 min.

Pumpkin Brains

This is a dish that we would always have for Halloween. It is so yummy and make sure you scrape the side of the pumpkin to get the yummy side of pumpkin that tastes great with the rice. This is what is looks like before it is cooked...

Here it is cooked. It may fall more depending how long you bake it.




Heres the rice "stuffing".

Pumpkin Brains

1 Med. Pumpkin (clean all seeds out)

3 c. Cooked Rice-

(Al dente. Don't over cook the rice cause it will cook more inside the pumpkin)
1 lbs. Hambuger or Sausage (cooked)

1 Carrot (shredded)

1 Celery (chopped)

1 Small Onion (chopped)
2 cans Cream of Mushroom
1 c. Sour Cream

Cook the rice and fry the hambuger/sasuage and drain the grease. Sautee the carrots, cellery, and onions. In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients together, including the cream of mushroom and sour cream. Scoop the rice mixture into the pumpkin.

Bake at 400' for 45-60 min.





Look what else you can do with the rice mixture. Make Stuffed Bell Peppers.
Bake 350' for 10-12 min. Add shredded cheese on top of course to make it super yummy!