Thursday, November 4, 2010

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Just for fun, here is the easiest recipe for pumpkin chocolate chip cookies you have ever seen. Be careful or you might eat them all day long.

Ingredients:
1 box spice cake mix
Chocolate Chips
15 oz. can of pumpkin

No really that's all the ingredients.

Mix the pumpkin and cake mix together till combined. You don't need to add anything else. No eggs, no oil, no nothing. Just the pumpkin and the spice cake mix. Then mix in the chocolate chips.

Bake at 350 until cookies are dry like a cake. This could take 15 minutes, maybe longer, depending on your oven.

You are welcome.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Zucchini Sweet Potato Bread


Fall = Baking. I would bake every day if the calories didn't count. Unfortunately they do, so you have to add things like vegetables to make yourself feel a little bit better. The vegetables in this bread make it even better though!

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

2 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp. nutmeg

1/4 tsp. cloves

1 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

2 cups sugar

3/4 cup vegetable oil (or substitute part for applesauce for less fat)

3 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

1 1/2 cups grated zucchini

1 1/2 cups peeled and grated sweet potato

1 cup chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 9 x 5 x 3 bread pan with non-stick cooking spray and set aside. Whisk together the first 7 ingredients in a bowl. In a larger bowl, beat the sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla and then mix in the zucchini and sweet potato. Add the other bowl of dry ingredients to the larger bowl and mix until just combined. Fold in the nuts.

Transfer the batter to the bread pan and bake about an hour and 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.