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Here's the recipe I thought up:
This will basically be a squishy cookie recipe that you'll cut into pieces and cover with goop.
Pumpkin thing 1.1
Ingredients:
Pumpkin pie filling (1 can)
Flour (about 3 cups, plus a bit more for shaping/rolling)
Brown sugar, packed (2/3 cup)
White sugar (1/2 cup)
Egg (1)
Cinnamon (1 tsp)
Nutmeg (2 pinches)
Salt (1/2 tsp)
Baking soda (1 tsp)
Chopped Walnuts or Almonds (about 1 cup)
Craisins (about 1 cup)
Cream cheese (1 package, 8 oz I think)
Some kind of cranberry sauce or preserves/jelly/spread, or honey.
In a large bowl, beat together the cream cheese and white and brown sugars until smooth. Beat in one egg, until mostly smooth. Throw in the cinnamon and nutmeg (I used some cloves, too), then add the pie filling. Beat it all into a runny paste.
Combine the flour, salt, and baking soda in another bowl. Add it to the stuff in the large bowl in halves and mix it up until it's dough. Then mix in the craisins and the nuts. If the dough is getting too hard, you might have to use your hands, or add some milk. If it's too soft, you'll have to add flour (I'm making this up as I go along, you know). The stuff should have a slightly softer consistency than sugar cookie dough. You're going to roll it into a decent-sized loaf.
Once the stuff is pretty well mixed up, toss it onto a floured board or waxed paper and shape it into a loaf, roughly 12 inches long, three or four wide, and one inch thick. You should have enough for two of these.
Put the loaves on a very lightly oiled baking sheet and put it in the oven at 375F ... until it is done. Probably 30-40 minutes. To see if it's done, stick a toothpick in the middle of the loaf and pull it out. If the toothpick has slimy/gooey stuff on it, the loaf isn't done. If it's got some crumb-looking bits on it, or it's clean, then it's done.
Before you put it in, you could paint the outside lightly with honey. This will seal in some of the moisture and give you a sweet, crusty exterior.
You can serve it however you like. After you pull it out of the oven, whatever you do, let the bastard cool for about 20 minutes.
If you want to serve it warm, cut it into slices and drizzle the whole thing with cranberry sauce or fruit preserves or something.
If you want to serve it cold, wait for it to cool, cover it with sauce or preserves, stick it in the fridge for a few hours, then cut the bastard up and serve it with whipped cream or ice cream.
Sounds good, eh?
This will basically be a squishy cookie recipe that you'll cut into pieces and cover with goop.
Pumpkin thing 1.1
Ingredients:
Pumpkin pie filling (1 can)
Flour (about 3 cups, plus a bit more for shaping/rolling)
Brown sugar, packed (2/3 cup)
White sugar (1/2 cup)
Egg (1)
Cinnamon (1 tsp)
Nutmeg (2 pinches)
Salt (1/2 tsp)
Baking soda (1 tsp)
Chopped Walnuts or Almonds (about 1 cup)
Craisins (about 1 cup)
Cream cheese (1 package, 8 oz I think)
Some kind of cranberry sauce or preserves/jelly/spread, or honey.
In a large bowl, beat together the cream cheese and white and brown sugars until smooth. Beat in one egg, until mostly smooth. Throw in the cinnamon and nutmeg (I used some cloves, too), then add the pie filling. Beat it all into a runny paste.
Combine the flour, salt, and baking soda in another bowl. Add it to the stuff in the large bowl in halves and mix it up until it's dough. Then mix in the craisins and the nuts. If the dough is getting too hard, you might have to use your hands, or add some milk. If it's too soft, you'll have to add flour (I'm making this up as I go along, you know). The stuff should have a slightly softer consistency than sugar cookie dough. You're going to roll it into a decent-sized loaf.
Once the stuff is pretty well mixed up, toss it onto a floured board or waxed paper and shape it into a loaf, roughly 12 inches long, three or four wide, and one inch thick. You should have enough for two of these.
Put the loaves on a very lightly oiled baking sheet and put it in the oven at 375F ... until it is done. Probably 30-40 minutes. To see if it's done, stick a toothpick in the middle of the loaf and pull it out. If the toothpick has slimy/gooey stuff on it, the loaf isn't done. If it's got some crumb-looking bits on it, or it's clean, then it's done.
Before you put it in, you could paint the outside lightly with honey. This will seal in some of the moisture and give you a sweet, crusty exterior.
You can serve it however you like. After you pull it out of the oven, whatever you do, let the bastard cool for about 20 minutes.
If you want to serve it warm, cut it into slices and drizzle the whole thing with cranberry sauce or fruit preserves or something.
If you want to serve it cold, wait for it to cool, cover it with sauce or preserves, stick it in the fridge for a few hours, then cut the bastard up and serve it with whipped cream or ice cream.
Sounds good, eh?