Comments | bluestocking79: Recipes: Pumpkin Streusel Muffins and Pumpkin-Chocolate Cheesecake Bars

bluestocking79

Recipes: Pumpkin Streusel Muffins and Pumpkin-Chocolate Cheesecake Bars

Oct 02, 2009 14:25

I owe people a ton of promised recipes, and I've just been way too busy lately to get around to formatting the posts. I apologize for the delay, and I'm rectifying it now. (In other words, brace yourself for Bluey's Recipe Spam of Dooooooom. You've been warned.)

This post is primarily for my dear, darling geminiscorp, who loves autumn and pumpkin goodies ( Read more... )

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Comments 14

geminiscorp October 2 2009, 18:48:59 UTC

SQUEEEEE! I love you!! Thank you, thank you. I know what I'll be doing this weekend. =D

(And it's the perfect weather for it, too. brrrrrrr!)

bluestocking79 October 2 2009, 21:00:49 UTC

Oh, yay! You're very welcome. I'm glad this hits the spot! I came across a pumpkin-chocolate pound cake recipe today, too, but I'll have to test and tweak it before I pass it along, to make sure it's perfected.

Enjoy your baking! This really is the perfect weekend for it. Is it cold or what? We've already had frost!

aruna_now October 2 2009, 20:19:18 UTC

Amazing. Im not even gonna try though.The best I can cook is tea. Only the one in teabags.

bluestocking79 October 2 2009, 21:02:32 UTC

~grins~ It's better than not being able to make tea! And trust me, I've met a few people who couldn't. :-P

veradee October 3 2009, 00:23:53 UTC

Streusel? It's always fascinating to see when German words pop up somewhere. :)

I like the first recipe. I can't say I've ever seen canned pumpkin puree but then I've never looked for it. Maybe it's available.

bluestocking79 October 3 2009, 00:27:43 UTC

"Streusel" was the word in the original recipe that I altered, but I must admit that it's less a streusel than it is a praline sort of topping.

Hmm... you know, I have no idea of pureed pumpkin is available in other countries. I hadn't thought of it. In North America, it's extremely common, but I don't know that it's true elsewhere.

veradee October 3 2009, 00:35:47 UTC

Admittedly, I had wondered how one can make Streusel from sugar, cashews and butter. :)

I just googled the German words for pureed pumpkin and came across quite a lot of recipes. So, either one can buy it, or people rely on making the puree themselves.

bluestocking79 October 3 2009, 00:44:57 UTC

Yes, that would be a trick, wouldn't it? It does form a streusel-like crumb when mixed together, so I'd guess that's why they call it that, even though it isn't a proper streusel.

And good! I'm glad to know that the pureed pumpkin isn't totally obscure. :D

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bluestocking79 October 3 2009, 00:30:51 UTC

Enjoy! :D

Autumn just makes me want to bake and bake and bake. I made garlic cheese bread today!

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bluestocking79 October 3 2009, 00:35:25 UTC

If you'd like! Do you have a breadmaker?

harmony_bites October 3 2009, 02:02:32 UTC

PUMPKIN!!!!!!!

I love it too--can you tell? I lurve muffins, cookies, soup... Those muffins look soooo good. Nom nom nom

bluestocking79 October 3 2009, 03:11:46 UTC

Okay, my Boo icon loves your Boo icon. :D

And excellent! I'm always glad to meet another pumpkin lover! The muffins are very good, and I definitely recommend them.

harmony_bites October 7 2009, 13:20:38 UTC

Just so you know--I made them this morning. My aunt is diabetic, so I made some substitutions. Whole wheat flour for all purpose, Splenda instead of granulated sugar, walnut instead of cashew. I also tried Splenda instead of the brown sugar. I think the muffins themselves are delicious given the Splenda and whole wheat (although I suspect they come out denser than with the white flour) but admittedly the topping doesn't work with splenda (I'll try brown sugar or without next time)

Also, you're oven temperature has to be wrong. My oven won't even go down to 100 F. Was that meant to be celsius? I set the oven to 350 degrees instead--it needed a good half hour at that--but turned out so well.

Now I'm going to have to make more pumpkin things. Soup... cookies... stew... Maybe I'll make a post of my own after trying some old/new recipes out :-)

bluestocking79 October 7 2009, 19:31:13 UTC

Good grief, you're right! I don't know how the hell that typo got in there, or how I missed it so many times, but the right oven temp is 400 degrees, definitely not 100. ~facepalm~ I apologize for that.

Okay, so. I'm glad that the muffins turned out well for you! I would expect the whole wheat to produce a shorter, denser muffin, but there is a good bit of baking powder here, so I hope that gave it a decent amount of rise. As far as the topping goes... yeah, I wouldn't expect Splenda to work there, because it wouldn't (as far as I know) be able to caramelize. But I seem to recall that there's a brown sugar-style Splenda, too; maybe that would work? It could be worth a try.

And I would definitely look forward to that recipe post. Mmmm, pumpkin!