pumpkin yumkin

Soooo I have these pumpkins out front on my patio, just staring at each other, unseen by passersby (second floor I reside) and they really seem to be serving no decorative purpose since I kind of missed out on the carving this year (there's a bunch of fall festivity scrooges around here!) so I think it's their time. I have one large plump guy that is just asking to be made into something scrumptious and fat-transferred and well, the other is oddly small with an awkward stem --some grinch of a boyfriend refused to take it, my gift to him--"the neighborhood kids might get a hold of it and smash it up against my house!"

I think it's just because it might be cuter than him.

Anyways, I've been digging into some different pumpkin recipes and came across this one and absolutely swooned in a spoon. I came across it on one of my favorite blogs, A Cup of Jo just yesterday. Now I know my mom is probably thinking, but Lindsay, this recipe doesn't call for any pumpkin mush? You're right momma, strictly pumpkin puree. No substitutions.

Eh, I'll find a use for those misfit pumpkins yet.

get the recipe > HERE courtesy of A Merry Mishap

Right now, it's pumpkin and chocolate chip cookie time! I cleaned out my ingredient cupboard tonight and found myself sampling half of it in preparation.

I hope everyone is getting some baking in this season, whether with something traditional or something wacky-out-side-of-this-world creative. I know three-fifths of my family back home is probably getting their bake on. Probably prancing around in their matching aprons too..

Please feel free to share some of your favorite fall treat-skis!

Happy non-burnt baking,
Lindsay