Oh My Gourd! - 2 Ingredient Pumpkin Muffins

I found this pin on Pinterest of 2 ingredient pumpkin muffins from Sweet-Verbina, originally made as a pumpkin cake on Big Red Kitchen.  The hubster and I both LOVE pumpkin, so I knew I had to try it! I used Spice Cake instead of the Vanilla Cake used in the original recipe, and it was amazing!

You just empty the cake mix and the 16oz. can of pumpkin into a mixing bowl and mix it.  That's it! No eggs, no water, nothing!  I did this at work so there wasn't an electric mixer, and mixing it by hand made it kind of sticky and not batter-like like it was supposed to be, but it tasted yummy anyway, even if it didn't look the best.

Tah-dah!

I ate some plain, but I also bought some Cream Cheese frosting for the top and it tasted really great too! 

Other Variations :

• Big Red Kitchen has a recipe for a glaze with her post
• Sweet-Verbina dusted hers with powdered sugar
• I bet it would taste great with chocolate  chips added in
• I might try making these as pancakes too; yum!
• I'm thinking about trying it out with carrot cake mix too

Have you tried these out?  Any other ideas to change up this simple recipe?

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Must Make Mondays

I've found some awesome stuff on the blogs I read and on Pinterest.  Here are some of my favorite finds, and things I really want to make!

 Smile and Wave : DIY light message using glow sticks - this would be awesome for a night house party

 Pixie Crust : caramel frappuccino cupcakes - omg these look good and so stinkin' cute with the green straws

 Little Bit Funky: made this really cute and simple tshirt - this would be cool to give to the kiddos for a holiday/celebration

 The Idea Room : playdoh containers dressed up as halloween figures

 Plain Chicken : homemade butterfingers, made with candycorn - these look delicious and butterfingers are the hubsters fav...I'll have to try this one out - have any of you tried it already and are they as good as they look/sound/

 Joy Is At Home : tea towel cake - what a great gift this is for a bridal shower, or for a housewarming gift

Sew Many Ways : used drink mix canisters (I think Pringles cans would work too), decorated them for Christmas, and put cookies in them for friends and neighbors - could totally do this for Halloween and decorate it like the plahdoh containers, then fill with candy and goodies and go "boo" the neighbors!

Cheesecake Stuffed Peaches

In last months issue of Better Home and Garden magazine, there was a recipe for cheesecake stuffed peaches, and they looked amazing! The inlaws came over today so I tried it out...and it was really really good. Here's the link for you, and I've copied and pasted the recipe straight from the BH&G site!

Ingredients
6 peaches, halved and pitted
1/4 cup butter, melted
3 tbsp. cinnamon-sugar
4 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

Directions
Preheat oven to 350*F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper; set aside. Trim a very thin slce from the round side of each peach half so halves stand flat on the baking pan. Dip peach halces in melted butter to coat. Arrange peach halves, cut sides up, in prepared pan. Sprinkle cut sides of peaches with cinnamon sugar; set aside.

In a medium mixing bowl beat cream cheese with a mixer on medium speed until smooth. Add sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla. Beat until combined. Spoon cream cheese mixture into peach centers.

Bake uncovered, about 30 minutes or until lightly browned and softened. Serve warm or at room temperature.
In the recipe it said to cook for 30 minutes but I only did for 18 and they were perfect!

Please ignore the fact that they look like a decaying molar :)


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