Find the Best Cake Recipes and Surprise Your Family

Do you want to give a surprise to your family and friends? If you have a birthday or an anniversary in your family within a few days then you can plan one of the most special gifts for these occasions.

Have you ever thought of baking a cake and presenting it on a birthday party or anniversary? You need to learn the best cake recipes so that you can make one of the best tastes possible. First of all you need to decide what kind of cake you want to bake.

There are flavors like chocolate, strawberry, fresh fruits, cheese cake and so on. If you want to learn how to bake a cake you need to make sure that you follow the steps very well. There are usually two types of cakes one with butter and the other one without butter.

Other than this, you can even make cake with eggs as well as without eggs. The eggs are usually the leavening agents. First of all to have homemade cakes you need to have all the ingredients in right measurement.

For this you will need measuring cups. The measuring cups for the dry and the liquid ingredients are usually different from one another. You can use the measuring spoons for both the dry as well as liquid ingredients.

The next thing that you will need for the best cake recipes are the pans for baking the cake. The pans can either be made of glass or even of metal. If you are using a glass utensil the always make sure that you reduce the temperature by at least 25 degrees.

You must start checking the cake 5 minutes before the time elapses. If you want to learn how to bake a cake then you must be sure about the temperature as well as time. Cake fillings are also an important part of baking cakes.

The filling must remain intact in the cake. You can provide confectioner’s sugar in each layer to make the filling taste good. Other than the filling you also need to learn how to decorate a cake. This is one of the toughest parts of baking the cake.

If the decorations are not attractive then the look of the cake will be destroyed. You can decorate the cake with flowers or even by writing a beautiful message on it.

To bake a chocolate cake you will require half cup superfine sugar and self raising flour, 2 spoons of cocoa and a pinch of salt one fourth cup melted butter and half cup milk, one egg and a little vanilla. You can bake this within 35 to 40 minutes at 350 degrees temperature. Preheating the oven is required for this.

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Easy To Bake Cake Recipes

They say that for every occasion there is always a delicious cake to complete it. These gourmet cakes come in a wide array of ingredients. Most of the time gourmet cakes are baked on special events like birthdays, ceremonies, parties, and so much more. Even on an ordinary day, you can choose to complete your meal with a tasty cake as a desert. Food recipes are usually categorized into many different kinds. A cake recipe can be found in a cookbook or could be found in the internet. There are web sites which let you have a look at their assorted food recipes for free.

Cakes are loved by everyone. They have a sweet and distinctive taste and they can come in different shapes, sizes, and designs. So what are the different types of gourmet cakes and what is behind a satisfying cake recipe? Let’s start off with the bundt cake. It is a cake with no artistic designs and icing decorations on it. It is simply a cake that is baked in a bundt pan and the most popular ones of this kind are the banana, cinnamon, apple and peanut butter cake.

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Another very famous type of cake is the chocolate cake. Wondering what is the best chocolate cake recipe? There are actually several types of chocolate flavored cakes but on top of these are the Dessert Torte, Black Forest, Chocolate Almond Cake, and so much more. They usually have a round or a square shape with a thick layer of chocolate and icing on top and on the sides of it.

Among others, another popular cake recipe is the dessert cake. It is called as such because it is smaller compared to the gourmet cakes. They are often made at home as a daily desert. Some of the most common desert cakes are the chocolate mallows, san rival, tiramisu, mango float, and icebox cake.

Some food recipes are intended for people who are on a diet. The cake recipe for these is usually low in sugar and uses an alternative for it. The most commonly used substitute for sugar in these cakes is the maple syrup.

Cheesecakes have cheese as the main ingredient and it has a creamy taste. It could be done with layers and for each layer, you can add a filling such as jam, icing, or mousse meringue. This is the cake recipe kids and moms love to bake because it is easy yet delicious at the same time. The crust used in this cake could be cookies and the filling may be a mix of blueberry, chocolate, caramel, strawberry, and many others. This type of cake is very versatile so you can even make these food recipes in your own preference.

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The Best Cake Designs and Recipes

Everyone loves cake. Impress your family and friends with delightfully decorated cakes. The use of an icing or some sort of garnish will add an air of elegance to your cake designs.

Creating beautiful and delicious cakes is not as frightening as it might seem. Whether you prefer rich chocolate cake or creamy cheesecake, choose one of the cake recipes below and enjoy step-by-step guidance for the preparation process.

Your loved ones will appreciate these divine, dazzling and elegant cakes.

DEVIL’S FOOD CAKE – COUNTRY LIVING HOLIDAYS

Ingredients

1/4 c. Butter or margarine, softened

1 1/2 c. Sugar

1/4 Tsp. Salt

1 Tbs. Vanilla

3/4 c. Unsweetened cocoa

3 1/2 c. Unsifted cake flour

2 Tsp. Baking soda

2 1/2 c. Water

4 Egg whites, at room temp.

Cocoa frosting

Chocolate glaze

Confectioners’ sugar and -unsweetened cocoa (opt. for checkerboard decoration)

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350′F. Generously grease and flour three 9-inch round

cake pans.

2. In a large bowl with electric beater or mixer, beat butter, 3/4 C

sugar, salt, and vanilla together until fluffy.

3. Combine cocoa, flour, and soda in a sifter. Sift into bowl on top

of butter mixture. Add water and beat at low speed just until smooth.

4. With clean beaters in a medium bowl, beat egg whites until fluffy.

Gradually add remaining 3/4 C sugar. Continue beating until stiff peaks form. Fold, one-third at a time, into chocolate batter.

5. Divide batter evenly into prepared pans. Bake until centers spring

back when touched-20 to 25 minutes.

6. Cool 5 minutes in pans. Turn out on cooling rack and cool

completely.

7. Prepare cocoa frosting. Fill and assemble cake. Spread a thin

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smooth layer of frosting over cake. Refrigerate 1 hour.

8. Prepare chocolate glaze. Place chilled cake on a cooling rack with

a tray underneath it. Spoon glaze onto top of cake. Spread evenly allowing glaze to flow down sides. Smooth sides.

9. Place cake, still on cooling rack with tray, in refrigerator until

glaze is firm.

10. Decorate top with cocoa and confectioners’ sugar checkerboard just

before serving, if desired. Place 1-inch strips of thin cardboard gently onto frosting 1-inch apart. Sift unsweetened cocoa over top of cake to solidly fill spaces. Carefully remove and clean strips. Place gently in opposite direction. Sift confectioners’ sugar over cake. Remove strips.

Cocoa Frosting: In a medium bowl, beat together 1/3 C softened butter or margarine, 1 1/2 lb. confectioners’ sugar, 1/3 C unsweetened cocoa, 1 Tsp. ground cinnamon, 3/4 Tsp. vanilla and 1/3 to 1/2 C milk. Use to fill and frost cake.

Chocolate Glaze: In the top of a double boiler, over hot (not boiling) water, melt 6 1-oz squares semisweet chocolate and 4 Tbs. butter. Stir in 3 Tbs. cold water and 1/4 C confectioners’ sugar until smooth. Use to glaze a 9-inch cake. Country Living Holidays, a source for cooking and recipes.  Scanned and fixed by Di Pahl.

CRANBERRY AND WHITE CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE

Ingredients

CAKE 4 oz. White chocolate, chopped

2 pkg. 8-oz cream cheese

3/4 c. Sugar

3 Eggs

2 Tsp. Vanilla

pinch Salt

3 c. Sour cream

CRUST: 1 c. Graham cracker crumbs

2 Tbs. Butter, melted

2 oz. White chocolate, chopped

GLAZE: 2 c. Cranberries

1/3 c. Sugar

1 Tsp. Cornstarch

Grated white chocolate for Garnish if desired

Directions

Recipe for Crust: Stir crumbs with butter until well moistened; stir in chocolate. Press into the bottom of a greased 9-inch spring form pan. Centre pan on a 20 X 14 inch piece of foil; press up tightly around side of pan. Bake in 325F oven for 8 minutes. Let cool on a rack.

Recipe for Cake: In a double boiler melt chocolate. Let cool. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until softened. Gradually beat in sugar; beat for 3 minutes or until fluffy. On low speed, beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in vanilla, chocolate and salt; stir in sour cream. Pour onto crust. Set cake pan onto a larger shallow pan; pour in enough hot water to come 1, inch up the side. Bake at 325F for 1 1/4 hours or until the edge is set but centre still jiggles slightly. Turn oven off; let cool in oven for 1 hour. Remove from larger pan and remove foil; let cool on a rack. Cover and refrigerate over night.

Recipe for Glaze: In saucepan cook cranberries and 1/4 cup water, partially covered, just until boiling. Stir in sugar and return to a boil; cook for 2 minutes or until sugar is dissolved but berries have not popped. Drain, reserving juice and berries separately. Remove cake from pan; place on cake plate. Return juice to saucepan; blend in cornstarch. Cook, whisking, until boiling and thickened; let cool slightly. Spoon berries around edge of the cake. Spoon glaze over top. Refrigerate for 1 hour or until set. Garnish with chocolate gratings. Canadian Living, December 1993.

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Cupcake Recipes: How to Bake Your Vanilla Cupcake

Vanilla is one flavor that one can just feast on. Other than the overrated chocolate filling that has become too conventional in these modern times, vanilla becomes the latest in trend when it comes to baking cupcakes. Even yummier and even easy to decorate when it comes to presentation and display techniques. With long and compiled cupcake recipes in both bookstores and online recipes, you may try to make your own vanilla cupcake using one of those easy to do cupcake recipes just like this one.

For ingredients, you will need to prepare 200g butter, softened, 1 and 3/4 cups (370g) caster sugar, 2 tsp vanilla bean paste, 4 eggs, 2 and 3/4 cups (405g) self-raising flour, and 1 cup (250ml) milk. With these ingredients, you will be able to make 24 pieces of vanilla cupcakes. Now for its butter frosting, you will need to prepare 200g of butter, softened, 6 cups (900g) icing sugar mixture and 1/2 cup (125ml) milk.

To begin baking, the first step that you need to do is to preheat oven to 180°C. Line 24 1/3 cup (80ml) muffin pans with patty cases. While doing this, you can cream the butter, sugar and vanilla bean paste with an electric mixer. You can then add the eggs one at a time. Beat these eggs until they are justly combined. After making sure that the eggs have been justly beaten, you can then add the flour and milk in alternate batches. For stirring these flour and milk, you can use a wooden spoon in order to combine it evenly.

After doing the above steps, this is when the main baking begins. Start baking for 15-20 minutes or until cooked through. After 20 minutes the most, only then that you can remove the baked cupcakes from the oven and transfer them to a wire rack in order to cool completely.

You can then start doing the frosting. You can use an electric mixer to make sure that the butter will be beat evenly until it becomes very pale in color. While beating, you can add the sugar from gradually to make sure to perfect the mixture. After the sugar has all been added and being beaten evenly with the butter, you can then add the milk and beat it along with the butter and sugar. You can choose to divide the frosting into small bowls and you can add colors unto it using a small palette knife to spread the icing. You can choose to add variant colors or a theme to your icing to make your cupcakes look very pretty. Depending on the occasion, you can also add up some decorations unto these cupcakes. Butterfly decors or frosting always makes good when designing for a baptism or a kid’s birthday while you can try making up a spider web on each cupcakes for Halloween. In fact, you can make a delightful wedding cake out of these cupcakes.

Of course vanilla is not the only flavor you can feast on and try baking. You may find different techniques and cupcake recipes both online and in bookstores.

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HOME COOKING: Cracker Barrel Restaurant’s Best Recipes You Can Do At Home – Cracker Barrel Chicken & Dumplings Full Meal Recipe with Chocolate Cake

At CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE RESTAURANT, their Lunch & Dinner menus offer homestyle country cooking with quality ingredients prepared from scratch throughout the day.

You’ll find everything you love about country cooking, plus a few items that might surprise you. Their country cooks have added some new things they know you’ll like. And of course, you’ll still find old favorites like Meatloaf, Chicken n’ Dumplins, Roast Beef and plenty of tasty country vegetables on the menu.

Among their most popular items are: Fried Chicken Livers, Hickory Smoked Pork Barbeque, Grilled Pork Chops, Fried or Grilled Chicken Tenderloin, Beans n’ Greens (a cup of Pinto Beans and Turnip Greens served up with onion, relish & Corn Muffins) as well as their famous Half Pound Hamburger Steak, Sugar Cured Ham, Homemade Beef Stew and Farm Raised Catfish Fillet (deep fried or Spicy Grilled).

>>> And now here is their most popular meal of all – Cracker Barrel Chicken & Dumplings Full Meal Recipe:

> Chicken and Broth:

3 quarts water

1 3-4 pound chicken cut up

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1 small onion sliced

2 stalks celery, chopped

1 clove garlic, peeled and quartered

1 bay leaf

4-6 whole parsley leaves

1 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper

1 tablespoon lemon juice

> Dumplings:

 2 cups all purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 1/4 teaspoons of salt

1 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk

1. Bring the water to a boil in a large pot. Add the chicken, 1 teaspoon of salt, onion, celery, garlic, bay leaf, and parsley to the pot. Reduce the heat to simmer and cook the chicken, uncovered, for 2 hours. The liquid will reduce by about one third.

2. When the chicken has cooked, remove it from the pot and set it aside. Strain the stock to remove all the vegetables and floating scum. You only want the stock and the chicken, so toss everything else out.

3. Pour 1 1/2 quarts (6 cups) of the stock back into the pot (keep the leftover stock, if any, for another recipe-it can be frozen). You may also want to use a smaller pot or a large saucepan for this. Add coarsely ground pepper, the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and the lemon juice, then reheat the stock over medium heat while preparing the dumplings.

4. For dumplings, combine the flour, baking powder, 1 1/4 teaspoons salt, and milk in a medium bowl. Stir well until smooth, then let the dough rest for 5-10 minutes. Roll the dough out onto a floured surface to about a 1/2 inch thickness.

5. Cut the dough into 1/2 inch squares and drop each square into the simmering stock. Use all of the dough. The dumplings will first swell and then slowly shrink as they partially dissolve to thicken the stock into a white gravy. Simmer for 20-30 minutes until thick. Stir often.

6. While the stock is thickening, the chicken will have become cool enough to handle. Tear all the meat from the bones and remove the skin. Cut the chicken meat into bite-size or a little bigger than bite-size pieces and drop them into the pot. Discard the skin and bones. Continue to simmer the chicken and dumplings for another 5-10 minutes, but don’t stir too vigorously or the chicken will shred and fall apart. You want big chunks of chicken in the end.

7. When the gravy has reached the desired consistency, ladle four portions onto plates and serve hot. Serve with your choice of steamed vegetables, if desired.

–Cracker Barrel Country Cornbread Dressing–

2/3 cup chopped onion

2 cups chopped celery

2 quarts of day old, grated cornbread

1 quart of day old, grated biscuits

1/4 cup dried parsley flakes

2 tsp poultry seasoning

2 tsp ground sage

1 tsp coarse ground pepper

4 ounces margarine

1 quart (32 ounces) plus 1 (14 ounce) can chicken broth

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Mix onion, celery, grated cornbread, and biscuits, parsley, poultry seasoning, sage, and pepper in a large mixing bowl. Add melted margarine to mixture. Stir until well blended.

Add chicken broth to dry ingredients and mix well. The dressing should have a wet but not soupy consistency like a quick bread batter (banana bread or cornbread).

Divide mixture evenly into two (8 x 8 inch) pans sprayed with non-stick spray.

Bake uncovered for 1 hour until lightly brown on the top.

–Cracker Barrel Buttermilk Biscuits–

8 servings…

2 c Bisquick

2/3 c Real buttermilk

1. Work together Bisquick and buttermilk to smooth dough. Dip hand in just enough Bisquick to kneed dough in bowl until smooth and elastic.

2. Shape dough into 16 thin patties, placing 1 atop another forming 8 biscuits in greased 9? round baking pan. Bake at 450 16 to 18 minutes or until golden. Wipe tops at once in butter. They split easily because of the way you formed them with the 2 pieces.

3. To make BONANZA Copycats, add 4 ts sugar. Shape into 6 patties, 1? thick, 3? round. Place close together in greased round baking pan. Wipe tops in soft butter. Bake 450 18 minutes or until brown.

4. Cool 10 minutes before serving. Split with thumbs instead of cutting with knife. These do not keep well. Right out of oven wipe tops again with dabs more butter to keep surface soft and tender.

–Cracker Barrel Double Chocolate Fudge Coca-Cola Cake–

 4 servings…

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 cups granulated sugar

3 tablespoons cocoa

1 cup butter or margarine

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 cup Coca-Cola

2 eggs

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Pinch of salt

1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 13 x 9-inch baking pan.

Combine dry ingredients in a bowl.

Heat butter, cocoa and Coca-Cola to boil and pour over the flour mixture. Mix well. Add eggs, buttermilk, vanilla extract and marshmallows and blend. The batter will be thin with marshmallows floating on top. Bake for 45 minutes.

> Frosting:

1/2 cup butter or margarine

3 tablespoons cocoa

6 tablespoons Coca-Cola

1 box confectioners’ sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Boil first three ingredients. Remove from the heat and blend in the sugar and vanilla extract. Spread on warm cake.

It’s served warm with premium vanilla bean ice cream. Enjoy a real Cracker Barrel tradition!

Dig In and Enjoy!

A Graduate of the Holland College Culinary Course, Brian Alan Burhoe has cooked in Atlantic Coast restaurants for over 30 years. He is a member of the Canadian Culinary Federation. Brian’s articles reflect his interests in food service, dreamstudy, imaginative literature and our best friends — our dogs.

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Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Facts:

- Cracker Barrel uses 70,000 pounds of flour every day to produce their made-from-scratch buttermilk biscuits and chicken dumplings.

- In 2007, Cracker Barrel sold enough pancake mix to make 8.2 million pancakes. That’s a stack of pancakes 32 miles high.

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Halloween Food Recipes For Everyone

October 31st is approaching and everybody is busy picking up suitable Halloween food recipes to complement their Halloween party theme. It’s good to have traditional things in your party, but it’s also good to conjure up some modern and innovative ideas to make your party more interesting.

Halloween Party Ideas For Kids

Kids’ parties demands entertainment. You must have lots of games and fun things to do. You can keep the scary quotient a little on the downside to not let small kids get the fright of their life. After all, you’re throwing a party to make the kids happy, not scare them out of their wits. Bobbing for apples is a favorite activity since the kids can eat those apples, too.

For example, the Harry Potter theme is one of the popular ones. You can dress kids up in their favorite characters. Cook up some fantastic Halloween recipes that go with this theme, like lemon sherbet, flavored beans, chocolate frogs and other delights.

Halloween Party Ideas For Teenagers

It’s tough to scare teens nowadays. Even if they are scared, they won’t admit it. Although skeletons toppling out of closets and false floors are age-old tricks, they still work. You can combine them with the right eerie sounds and screams.

Food is where you can capture the interest of teens. Prepare some ghastly Halloween food recipes and dare the teens to eat them. For example, eyeballs in a dish, brains sticking out, cut fingers, and other recipes are horrifying to look at.

Other food ideas are pizzas with deathly looking toppings, soups with false eyeballs floating in it, sausages with blood, and lots more. However, make sure that the recipes taste good. You should use organic food as much as possible.

Halloween Party Ideas For Adults

You can have couple themes. Let them get dressed like Dracula and his dame, Frankenstein and his Bride, and more. Adults may not like to play games, but they would notice your decor. So, make sure you have scary props all around to make your guests jump out with fright with every step they take. Hey, it’s Halloween – no mercy!

For an adult’s party, food is important. You must have some filling Halloween party recipes, along with light treats, cocktails and soups. Don’t forget the dessert. Pumpkin cakes and pies, apple pies and other delicacies make for a great party. Your guests will remember the food more than anything else. If the food is bad, the whole party gets spoiled, no matter how real your hanging vampire looks.

Halloween Party Ideas For Seniors

Please spare the horror here. The ideal way is to go traditional. Play some good music, have modest lighting, and place pumpkin lanterns around the house to get the Halloween feel. Setting up surprises and shocks is a bad idea at this kind of party.

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Top 5 Messy Cake Recipes just for Kids

Children love to cook just a much as grown-ups do, especially when there’s sweets, chocolate, and other fun ingredients involved. Here are some of the most popular children’s cake recipes – sure to be a big hit amongst your little cooks!

1. Critter Shaped Cakes
This is a very basic cake, with a very amusing twist. First, let the kids decide which animal they’d like to make. An animal with easy recognisable shapes, like a koala for instance, works best. Use any instant cake mix and bake a simple sheet cake. Next, cut out the simplified animal shapes individually and arrange on a larger dish. Then comes the fun part, decorating your cake! Children can use gum drop candies for eyes and noses, licorice for whiskers, and sprinkles and colored icing to resemble the animal’s fur.

2. Mucky Mud Pies with Juicy Worms
This is a classic recipe with a few fun additions that your kids will love. This cake features a crumbly chocolate crust layered with more rich chocolate sauce, nuts, ice cream, and gummy worms for that authentic muddy feel. Start with the chocolate crust at the bottom of your dish. Then instead of neatly layering in the other ingredients let kids dump them in however they choose. Chocolate sauce mixed in with nuts and ice cream and topped with colorful gummy worms is sure to please every time.

3. Scrumptious Butterscotch Haystacks
Butterscotch Haystacks are so fun and easy to make, and only require a few ingredients. You’ll need butterscotch morsels, creamy peanut butter, miniature marshmallows, and chow mein noodles. Simply melt down the butterscotch in a microwave and stir in the peanut butter until blended completely. Add in the marshmallows and chow mein noodles, stirring gently as to not break the noodles. On a wax or freezer paper lined sheet pan, arrange the mixture into little haystacks and refrigerate, then serve.

4. Lollie Brownie Cakes
This cake is made just like brownies, except on a larger scale. Just bake up some brownies, throwing in any nuts you wish. Let kids select the miniature chocolate bars and simply melt them down in a microwave. Drizzle over your brownie cake, and top with bits of remaining miniature chocolate bars. This recipe also works on a smaller scale, which is great for parties as each child can create their own custom cake using mini chocolate bars of their choice

5. Sweet Desert Pizza!
For a sweet but healthy children’s cake try Dessert Pizza. This recipe calls for sugar cookie dough crust, fresh fruits, and softened cream cheese. Bake up your cookie dough in a circular pizza pan. Mix up the cream cheese with some confectioner’s sugar, and then spread the mixture onto your “pizza pie.” Kids have a blast decorating this cake like a real pizza. Select fresh fruits like pineapples, oranges, peach slices, blueberries, raspberries, and strawberry halves. Slice the cake into wedges and serve.

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Healthy Pumpkin Recipes

After you’ve learn all about pumpkin benefits, we would like to share a few delicious and easy recipes for a variety of Pumpkin-based dishes.

Thai Pumpkin Curry with Citrus Notes (Vegan/Gluten-Free)

This vegetarian curry offers an array of bright colors – orange, yellow, and red – infused with citrus accents. You’ll love the delicious taste of this curry, as well as its healthy combination of vegetables, including pumpkin or squash, yam/sweet potato, carrots, yellow bell pepper, and cherry tomatoes. Makes a perfect vegetarian Thanksgiving recipe, but is equally yummy any time of the year. ENJOY!

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:

* 1/2 small pumpkin (or subsitute 1 acorn squash, butternut, or any other orange squash except spaghetti)

* 1 small or 1/2 large yam or sweet potato, peeled and cubed

* 1-2 medium carrots, cut into thick slices

* 1 yellow bell pepper, cut into bite-size pieces

* 1 cup cherry tomatoes

* 1/2 can chick peas, drained

* 2 Tbsp. grated orange rind

CURRY SAUCE:

* 3-4 cloves garlic

* 1-2 fresh red chillies (or substitute fresh green chilies, OR 1-2 tsp Thai chili sauce)

* 1 can coconut milk

* 1 tsp. tamarind paste (or substitute 1 Tbsp. lime juice)

* 2+1/2 Tbsp. soy sauce (use wheat-free soy sauce for gluten-free diets)

* 1 Tbsp. brown sugar

* juice of 1/2 lime

* juice of 1 medium orange

* 1/2 tsp. turmeric

* 1 Tbsp. rice vinegar (or substitute apple cider vinegar)

* 1 Tbsp. ground coriander seeds, 1 Tbsp. ground cumin, and 1 tsp. fennel seed

* 1/3 purple onion, sliced

* GARNISH:

* handful of fresh basil leaves

* optional: 1 Tbsp. roasted pumpkin seeds and a few nasturium flowers (or other edible flowers)

Preparation:

1. To make the curry sauce, place all sauce ingredients together in a food processor (or blender if you don’t have a processor). Process well. Set aside.

2. Prepare pumpkin or squash by cutting it open and scooping out the seeds with a spoon. Either save the seeds for roasting, or discard. Cut the pumpkin/squash into cubes, slicing off the skin. You will probably only use 1/3 to 1/2 a pumpkin for this recipe (save the rest in the refrigerator for cooking later).

3. Prepare the rest of the vegetables plus the orange rind.

4. Place the pumpkin (or squash), yam, and carrots in the wok/frying pan together with the curry sauce over medium-high heat. Stir well.

5. When the curry begins to boil, reduce heat to medium, stirring occasionally. Allow to simmer for 6-8 minutes, or until vegetables have softened.

6. Add the bell pepper, cherry tomatoes, chick peas, and orange rind, stirring to incorporate. Simmer for 2 more minutes.

7. Do a taste test for salt and spice. If not salty enough, add a little more soy sauce. If not spicy enough for your taste, add more fresh chilli (or chili sauce). If too sour, add a little more sugar.

8. To serve, scoop into a large serving bowl, or portion out on individual plates. Sprinkle with fresh basil leaves and pumpkin seeds, then top with several nasturium flowers (if using). Serve with plenty of Thai jasmine rice (white or brown), and enjoy this colorful and fragrant Thai dish!

Not Your Grandma’s Pumpkin Pie (RAW)

Crust:

2 C almonds

1/2 C dates, pitted and soaked

1/4 tsp cinnamon

Pulse the almonds in a food processor until evenly ground. Do not over-process or you’ll end up with almond butter. Add dates and process into a dough-like consistency. Press the mixture into an 8-inch ceramic pie plate that has been greased with coconut butter. Place in the freezer to set while preparing the filling.

Filling:

2 C pumpkin, cubed

meat of 1 young coconut (reserve water)

1/2 C walnuts, soaked

1/2 C almonds, soaked

1/2 C dates, soaked

1 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp ginger

1/2 tsp ground cloves

Begin mixing pumpkin and coconut water in a food processor until you have a smooth paste. Add in coconut meat, walnuts and almonds, blending again until smooth. Add dates and spices, and process some more.

Pour mixture on top of almond pie crust and spread evenly. Chill for several hours before serving.

Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies (Vegan)

prep time: 15 minutes | cooking time: 32 minutes | makes 4 dozen cookies

These are soft out of the oven, but as they cool they are nice and chewy. They are a serious crowd pleaser, for crowds with taste buds.

Ingredients

2 cups flour

1 1/3 cups rolled oats

1 teaspoon baking soda

3/4 teaspoon salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1 2/3 cups sugar

2/3 cup canola oil

2 tablespoons molasses

1 cooked pureed pumpkin

1 teaspoon vanilla

optional: 1 tablespoon ground flax seeds

1 cup walnuts, finely chopped

1/2 cup raisins or chocolate chips

Directions

Preheat oven to 350. Have ready 2 greased baking sheets.

Mix together flour, oats, baking soda, salt and spices.

In a separate bowl, mix together sugar, oil, molasses, pumpkin and vanilla (and flax seeds if using) until very well combined. Add dry ingredients to wet in 3 batches, folding to combine. Fold in walnuts and raisins (or chocolate chips)

Drop by tablespoons onto greased cookie sheets. They don’t spread very much so they can be placed only an inch apart. Flatten the tops of the cookies with a fork or with your fingers, to press into cookie shape. Bake for 16 minutes at 350. If you are using two sheets of cookies on 2 levels of your oven, rotate the sheets halfway through for even baking. You’ll have enough batter for 4 trays.

Remove from oven and get cookies onto a wire rack to cool. These taste best when they’ve had some time to cool and set. They taste even better the next day!

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