White Cake Mix to Pumpkin Cake

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Makes 24 cupcakes

• 1 box yellow cake mix
• 1/2 cup oil
• 1/4 cup buttermilk, or milk, or sour cream
• 4 large eggs
• 15 oz  pumpkin pie filling
• 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
• 3 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 t ginger
• 2 t allspice
• 1 t nutmeg
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• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Mix together the cake mix, sugar, oil, water, eggs, pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice, and cinnamon.
• Stir for 2 minutes until the batter is super smooth.
• Pour the batter into a greased cake pan and bake until a toothpick comes out mostly clean.
• For cupcakes 15-18min, a 9x13 pan, bake for 25-30 minutes, or10inch bundt cake, bake for 30-40 minutes
• Allow the cake to cool for 10 minutes then remove from the pan to a cooling rack to cool completely.
• Top with powdered sugar, vanilla icing, or cream cheese frosting.

Gluten Free Zucchini Bread & muffins

Meaningful Eats

Column on left is for one loaf pan.  Column on right is a doubled recipe for 1 loaf pan and 16 muffins

Dry Ingredients

Original            Double

1 ¾ c                3 ½ c GF flour (half blanched almond flour and gluten free all purpose blend)

2 t                    4 t baking powder

½ t                   1 t baking soda

½ t                    1t salt

2t                      4t cinnamon

¼ t                   ½ t nutmeg (or pumpkin spice)

Wet Ingredients

¼ c                    ½c brown sugar

½ c                    1c sugar (decrease next time to 1/2c)

2                        4 eggs

1 c                     2 c zucchini

1/3 c                  2/3 c coconut oil or any oil

¼ c                    ½ c almond milk

1t                       2t lemon juice

2t                       4t vanilla

2-3T                  ¼ c flax

Preheat the oven to 350F. Grease 1 loaf pan with cooking spray or coconut oil and put cupcake liners in cupcake pan.

1. In a medium bowl, combine the dry ingredients. Whisk to evenly distribute.
2. On stove heat eggs, coconut oil, almond milk, lemon juice, and vanilla and whisked constantly for 1 min. In a separate bowl- whisk the brown sugar, white sugar and the egg mixture. Add the zucchini and mix for 30 seconds to combine. Add the walnuts or chocolate chips and stir to combine.
3. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pans. Bake for 45-50 minutes loaf pan and 22-25 minutes for muffins, until set in the middle. Let sit in the pan for 10 minutes to cool, then turn out onto a wire rack to continue cooling. Store leftovers wrapped tightly in plastic wrap at room temperature. Enjoy!

11/5/18  i love the light fluffyness of these muffins. Next time do 1/2c of white sugar and include applesauce

baked pumpkin oatmeal

One lovely Life
I  put in a greased 9x13 pan

For the dry ingredients:

4 cups rolled oats (sometimes called old-fashioned). – Use gluten free as needed!
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp nutmeg, 1/4 tsp cardamom

Or 1&1/2t pumpkin pie spice
2 cup toasted pecans or almonds

protein powder optional

For the wet ingredients:

3 cups milk (I use unsweetened almond milk)
2 cups pumpkin or 15oz can
1/2 cup pure maple syrup or brown sugar (plus more, for drizzling)
3 eggs or 2 Tbsp chia seeds + 3 Tbsp water (or 1 egg, if not vegan)
2 tsp vanilla

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Can serve caramel chips or choco chips

Optional Crumb Topping-

• 1/3 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 4 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
• 2/3 cup plus 1 tbsp all-purpose flour

In a large bowl, whisk together the oats, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom. Add 1/2-3/4 cup of the pecans (and save the rest for sprinkling on top).

In a medium bow, whisk together the wet ingredients–milk, pumpkin, syrup, chia egg/egg, and vanilla. Whisk until well combined.

Stir the wet ingredients into the dry oatmeal mixture. Stir to combine well. Pour into a greased 8×8 (or 2 quart) baking dish. Sprinkle with additional pecans if you like.

Bake at 350 degrees 25-30 minutes, or until the liquid has soaked in, the center is just set, and the edges are starting to turn golden.

Serve with a drizzle of milk and a little syrup if you like.

Oatmeal will keep 5-7 days in the refrigerator. To reheat, simply add a little extra milk and warm in the oven or microwave.

Can serve with whipped up coconut milk on top.