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Fall Faves – Pumpkin Bread

October 24, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 9 Comments

You all know how we love the pumpkin.

Pumpkin Pie.

Pumpkin Pancakes.

Pumpkin Coffee.

Pumpkin Anything.

Nothing makes the boys happier than getting off the bus…

To a batch of delicious warm pumpkin bread.

baking with kids Fall Faves Pumpkin Bread

WHAT YOU NEED:

1 15 ounce can pumpkin puree

4 eggs

1 c vegetable oil

2/3 c water

3 c sugar

1 c brown sugar (divided)

3 1/2 c flour

2 t baking soda

1 t baking powder

1 1/2 t salt

1 t ground cinnamon

1 t ground nutmeg

1/2 t ground cloves

1/4 t ground ginger

1/2 t ground allspice

Optional:

chocolate chips

walnuts

pumpkin seeds

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

In a large bowl combine pumpkin, eggs, vegetable oil, water, sugar and 1/2 cup brown sugar.  Mix until blended.

In another bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger and allspice.  Mix until well combined.  Pour dry ingredients slowly into wet ingredients and mix until well combined.

Add in your desired mix ins.  We usually do one with walnuts and one with chocolate chips.

Pour batter into 2 greased loaf pans.  Sprinkle tops with remaining brown sugar.

baking with kids Fall Faves Pumpkin Bread

Bake on 350 for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

 

 

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Blueberry scones with blueberry butter

July 29, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 10 Comments

I love fresh scones.

But I’m not a baker…

So I rarely make them.

But this is a relatively easy recipe to get yummy scones on the table on a weekend morning.

baking with kids Blueberry scones with blueberry butter

WHAT YOU NEED:

2 cups all purpose flour

1 T baking powder

1 t salt

1/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup unsalted butter, very cold, cut into chunks

3/4 cup cream

1 egg

1 pint blueberries (locally grown)

2 T sugar in the raw

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.

In your food processor bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.  Pulse quickly to combine.  Add cold butter and pulse quickly to cut butter in until it looks like coarse sand.

In a separate large bowl combine cream and egg.  Mix well.  Pour off just a bit into a small bowl then pour the flour mixture in.  Stir a bit just to combine.  Fold in your blueberries very gently being careful not to burst them.

Now comes the creative part…

You can turn out your dough and form into a large square or circle and cut them into traditional triangles or you can do what I do and just drop them into circles on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Using a pastry brush, brush the tops of the scones with the reserved cream/egg mixture and sprinkle with raw sugar.

Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Serve with Blueberry Butter.

 

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Apple Cinnamon Pretzels

November 5, 2010 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 19 Comments

You know those yummy delicious pretzels that you see in the mall?

The  ones whose delicious scents waft their way down the breezeways and make you crave their buttery goodness?

Well these are them…

Only with an apple cinnamony crust that fills your kitchen with that wonderful aroma.

Oh and the kids had a blast making them…

crafts Apple Cinnamon Pretzels

WHAT YOU NEED:

1 1/2 cups warm Apple Cider (110 degrees F)

2 t salt

2 T sugar

1 t cinnamon

1 package active dry yeast

4 1/2 cups all purpose flour

4 T melted butter

1/2 cup applesauce

oil

12 cups water

2/3 cup baking soda

FOR TOPPING:

1 egg, beaten

4 T sugar

1 T cinnamon

pinch of salt

WHAT TO DO:

crafts Apple Cinnamon PretzelsIn the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the first 5 ingredients.  Let the mixture sit until the yeast makes it begin to foam.  Add in your flour, butter and applesauce.  Mix on low speed with your dough attachment until combined.  Bring speed up to medium and knead for 5 minutes.  Remove dough and move to an oiled bowl and allow to rise for 90 minutes in a warm spot in your kitchen.

Once the dough has risen preheat your oven to 450 degrees.  Turn the dough out onto an oiled counter (it’s sticky!) and divide it into 8 equal pieces.  Roll each piece into a long rope, then twist into a pretzel shape.  The kids will have a blast with this.  It won’t be perfect.  But it will be fun.  crafts Apple Cinnamon Pretzels

In a large pot heat up water with baking soda.  In a bowl combine your remaining sugar, cinnamon, and a pinch of salt.  Once boiling drop each pretzel individually into the water for 20 seconds.  Remove to a lined baking sheet.  Repeat until each pretzel has been boiled.  Brush each pretzel with your egg wash.  Sprinkle with your cinnamon mixture and bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown.

No need to drive to the mall for this goody!

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Annie Bakes up Summertime Memories

June 3, 2010 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 10 Comments

So today we have guest post part deux…and you’re in for a treat.  A sweet ice cream treat with the fabulous and wonderful Anne at Annie Bakes.

holidays Annie Bakes up Summertime Memories

She is adorable and I love her.  She’s always cooking up something fantastic for her along with her hubs and two sons.  I realize that I’m not being fair to all the wonderful mothers of daughters out there, wait’ll you see tomorrow’s guest post, but for now you’ll have to excuse the son-love.  If you’re new here, welcome, welcome, I apologize for being a poor host and dashing off.  The kids and I are off to shoot a television pilot based on our blog and cookbook and so the beautiful Anne will be here in my stead.  She’s a doll, I know you’ll all love her…

I am so thrilled that Alex asked me to be the Featured Blogger here at Ma, What’s For Dinner?  And since I’m spending the day, I thought I would bring dessert, cuz who doesn’t like dessert?!?  This recipe is super easy to whip up–in fact it wasn’t really a recipe, but just a few of my favorite ingredients thrown together.

holidays Annie Bakes up Summertime Memories

But the best part is the toasted, salted pecans!!  We used to have a Dairy Queen and I LOVED their turtle sundaes and always asked for half of the chocolate and caramel, but double the pecans!  Mmmm, but now, sadly, we no longer have a Dairy Queen so I am left to my own devices when it comes to salted pecans.  If you’re a little weirded out by salt in your dessert, have no fear, that’s what makes the chocolate come alive!  It’s just like french fries and a chocolate shake…

Turtle Ice Cream Sandwiches

INGREDIENTS:

8-10 ice cream sandwiches

1- 8 ounce container lite cool-whip-thawed

caramel ice cream topping

chocolate ice cream topping

1/2 cup chopped pecans

2 tablespoons butter

1 teaspoon Kosher salt

DIRECTIONS:

In a saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat.  Add the pecans and toast, but do not burn for about 5 minutes.  Sprinkle with the Kosher salt and let cool completely.  Meanwhile, spray an 8 x 8 baking dish with a little cooking spray and line with Saran Wrap (this will allow you to pull the dessert out neatly to cut it when it is frozen).  Layer the bottom with ice cream sandwiches and cut some to fit if you need to.  Layer with cool-whip, drizzle with the caramel and chocolate and sprinkle on half the pecans.  Add another layer of ice cream sandwiches, and layer with cool whip.  Freeze for at least one hour.  Remove the dessert from the pan using the Saran wrap and cut into pieces.  On a dessert plate, drizzle chocolate sauce, set the dessert in the middle, then drizzle with caramel and top with the pecans.

I hope you all enjoyed this recipe!  Even though I’m spending the day here, I still welcome you to check out my blog www.anniebakes.net.

And Alex–Good luck, and I hope I didn’t make too much of a mess in your kitchen, I promise to clean up before you get home!  Anne

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