Serve this tasty homemade Pumpkin Ice Cream recipe to your family and guests for fall and winter holiday desserts.
Fall Desserts
Everyone enjoys decorating pumpkins for Halloween, they come in so many cute shapes and sizes ! We even enjoy roasting pumpkin seeds once the holiday is over.
Here's an easy recipe for Pumpkin Ice Cream that can be made in an ice cream machine. You can make your own squash or pumpkin puree or use canned pumpkin as the base.
When entertaining this Fall season, whether for Halloween parties, Thanksgiving or Christmas holiday, your festive table will be complete with this creamy sweet dessert flavored and flecked with cinnamon and nutmeg.
Check out my Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bars recipe too!
Pumpkin Ice Cream Recipe
3/4 c. sugar 1 Container Evaporated Milk (canned, not sweetened condensed) (1-3/4 cups) 1-1/2 c. heavy cream 3/4 tsp. ground or freshly grated Nutmeg
3/4 tsp. ground Cinnamon /2.2 tsp, ground ginger 1/4 tsp. ground cloves (or a total of Pumpkin Pie Spice to equal the above spices)
1 tsp.pure vanilla extract Pinch of Salt 1 c. Libby's Pumpkin Puree
1.2 c. crushed Graham Crackers (optional)
Combine ingedients except for Graham Crackers.
Over medium heat, combine in pot and simmer. Remove from heat and transfer mixture into a bowl in refrigerator to cool.
Pour mixture into an ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer's directions.
If you don't have an ice cream maker, place into a metal cake pan, cover with plastic wrap, and freeze until desired consistency. (About 4 hours). Remove, from freezer a bit ahead of time, and serve.
Apple Cake is one of our favorite cakes - whether for breakfast, snack, or dessert. This Sourdough Apple Cake is now in my favorite rotation! Healthy with fruit, maple syrup, and gut-healthy Sourdough Starter
SOURDOUGH APPLE CAKE
As a quick go-to, I usually keep Tastefully Simple Nana Apple Cake mixes on hand to bake if I have to bring a dessert.
Lately, I've been experimenting with Sourdough Discard recipes, and came across this one using maple syrup in it's Discard Apple Cake with an optional sugar topping. One of my sourdough Facebook groups recommended this recipe from Documenting Simple Living blog.
I love how the apples are softened in maple syrup, cinnamon and some butter in my cast iron skillet.
Although I really like my original recipes, especially Paula Deen's Apple Cake with Caramel Sauce, this new one with Sourdough Discard (which is really just unfed starter) is the one I'll be adding to my rotation.
If your starter isn't quite ready and you're looking for a quick apple dessert, you might also like this Apple Pandowdy skillet recipe which is good if you enjoy cast iron skillet cooking.
Easy clean up in the kitchen with Handmade Cotton Dish Cloths from Moomettes Crochet shop!
When I think of Cranberries, Cape Cod Cranberry Bogs come to mind. Here's a recipe for a delicious Fall Cranberry Crisp that came from a Cape Cod Church Supper we went to many years ago. Perfect for Thanksgiving!
If I remember, Ocean Spray had a visitors' center up there someplace that we once toured.
When the kids were little when we'd visit Cape Cod, Massachusetts, we didn't have much money, and to extend our stay, would look for the old-fashion Church Suppers. We'd also do the Fish Fry at the Elks club, or treat ourselves to a Lobster Fest held at a church in Wellfleet.
This Cranberry Cobbler recipe is from a Church Supper on Rt. 6 in Eastham. We had a yummy bowl of New England Clam Chowder, rolls, beverage, and then dessert - all for about $6.00 which went to help support the church. It was held once a week on Wednesdays I think. The parking lot was always full.
The kind ladies running the church supper also had the recipe already printed out because they had so many requests for it.
This Cranberry Crisp will be the perfect ending to your get-togethers in any season, Thanksgiving dinner, or potluck Friendsgiving dinner! Serve with Vanilla Ice Cream or a Whipped Topping.
If you enjoy cobblers and crisps, check out my other yummy recipes
1 c. uncooked rolled oats
1/2 c. flour
1 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. butter
1 can (16 oz.) whole Ocean Spray Cranberry
Sauce
Whipped cream/whipped topping
Preparation:
Mix together: 1 cup uncooked rolled oats, 1/2 cup
flour, 1 cup brown sugar. work in 1/2 cup of butter or
margarine until crumbly.
Press 1/2 of mixture into 8 x 8 greased baking dish.
Cover with one can (16 oz.) of Ocean Spray Whole
Cranberry Sauce. Sprinkle rest of mixture on top.
Bake 45 minutes in 350° oven. Garnish with homemade whipped cream.
Here's an easy dessert for after dinner on cool fall nights and winter. This savory imitation rum-flavored Pumpkin Bread Pudding is sure to become a family favorite.
Fall and Winter Desserts
This recipe is traditional New England comfort food ! This bread pudding is baked in a water bath so that it sets well and will be easy to cut and serve.
Bring for potluck Halloween parties or take along for the Thanksgiving dessert table!
I also have a Baked Macaroni and Cheese recipe that's prepared in a Water Bath. It comes out nicely to serve at buffets or a brunch.
Be sure to check out my Vanilla Crockpot Bread Pudding recipe along with my recipe for Hard Sauce.
Pumpkin Bread Pudding
6 c. dry whole wheat bread cubes
1/2 c. finely chopped walnuts, raisins or currents (optional)
3 slightly beaten eggs
1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
1 c. Libby's canned pumpkin
1/4 c. packed brown sugar
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
2 c. milk
1/4 c. rum (or 1 tsp. rum extract)
1/4 c. butter or margarine, melted
2 tsp. vanilla
Hard Sauce, Whipped Cream or Cool Whip (optional)
Combine bread and nuts in bottom of 12x7x2 baking dish.
Stir together eggs, condensed milk, pumpkin, sugar and spices. Gradually stir in milk; add rum, butter or margarine and vanilla. Pour over bread layer.
Place dish in a 13x9x2 baking pan. Pour hot water into larger pan to a depth of 1 inch. Bake in oven for 50-60 min or until knife inserted just off center comes out clean.
Serve warm with hard sauce, whipped cream, whipped topping or ice cream.
It's Oktoberfest time! One of my favorite cakes my mom would make when I was growing up used Sauerkraut! You probably would never think of adding it to a cake, but really, this Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake version is absolutely delish! The homemade Mocha Frosting is easy and adds extra flavor.
As I'm part Polish, sauerkraut was always a staple in our house, and in many German households too. Happy Fall - and remember, disclosing the Secret Ingredient to this yummy cake is up to you!
I like to make my Kraut cake in a loaf baking pan, but you can make it in any shape of your choice.
Kraut Chocolate Cake
2/3 c. butter
1-1/2 c. sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. Vanilla
1/2 c. unsweetened cocoa
1/2 c. drained, rinsed, chopped sauerkraut (squeeze all liquid out)
2-1/4 c. sifted flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 c. water
Cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Sift together dry ingredients and add alternately with water to egg mixture. Fold in sauerkraut. Turn into 2 greased and floured 8" square or round pans. Bake at 350 degree oven for 30 minutes.
Cool on a wire rack then frost.
Mocha Frosting
1-1/2 c. heavy cream
3 T. sugar
1 T. instant coffee
1 tsp. cocoa
Whip heavy cream with sugar, coffee and unsweetened cocoa until soft peaks form.
Do you get excited about Pumpkin Season? I do! To make these tasty Pumpkin Bars I used the Tastefully Simple Almond Pound Cake mix but you could use any pound cake mix and Aldi works fine too, and borrowed the cream cheese filling that I use in my Cranberry Nibble Bread recipe that I make to serve with the Thanksgiving turkey dinner. You could make these as Halloween treats at the kids' parties at school too!
Pumpkin Recipes
If you're wondering why many of my photos show that I'm using aluminum foil pans for baking, well, I do own many nice baking dishes! The majority of my creative cooking and baking is done on weekends for Sunday night dinner either at my house or my daughter's house. This way I know I don't have to worry about when I'll be getting my good white porcelain baking dishes and pans back!
I served these yummy pumpkin cream cheese bars with guess what - my homemade
Pumpkin Ice Cream ! I've also made my own homemade ice cream. What a delightful duo, and used some Cool Whip as a topping. You can use canned dairy whipped cream, or make the real thing yourself!
1 (15 oz.) canPumpkin, pure
8 oz. cream cheese
1 Egg
1 box Almond pound cake mix or plain pound cake mix
1 tbsp Cinnamon
1 tbsp Nutmeg
1/3 cup Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla Mix cream cheese and egg together and whip. Fold into dry cake mix and mix all ingredients together and bake in square pan according to box mix directions. Frost with whip cream
This very easy Crockpot Bread Pudding recipe looks and tastes like you worked all day. Regular raisins can be used in place of golden raisins if you prefer. You can also add more cinnamon if you like. This makes a tasty dessert any time of year, especially for Easter, Mother's Day, Thanksgiving or a Christmas pudding.
Crockpot Desserts
Recently I shared a recipe for New Orleans Bread Pudding with either Whiskey sauce or Bourbon sauce - a regional take for Mardis Gras.
This is an old fashion bread pudding recipe that's been updated as an easy crockpot dessert.
The frost is on the pumpkin and winter isn't far behind! We love our bread pudding here in New England, especially when we're snowed in! Bread pudding was also one of MY grandmother's favorite frugal desserts. A Depression dessert, nothing was wasted, and often stale bread was used and turned into yummy desserts.
This bread pudding cooks in a water bath, very similar to my homemade Macaroni and Cheese recipe. Both set up firmly and very nicely.
This recipe is a great way to use up leftover bread, or even if you make your own Sourdough Bread like I do, freeze what's leftover to make this bread pudding.
Fall is all about the Great Pumpkin! Enjoy pumpkin picking, leaf peeping and beautiful autumn foliage! Enjoy this easy Pumpkin Gingerbread Trifle compote - use either canned pumpkin squash or the real thing!
Pumpkin Recipes
I'd have to say Fall is my favorite season. Perhaps because I've lived in New England all of my life, I take it for granted that people everywhere enjoy the changing seasons - the changing colors of the leaves, kids going back to school and Halloween. When I was a kid, people used to rake and then burn their leaves that fell from the trees - but I guess now the EPA has put an end to that with environmental conservation laws and air pollution. Yet I can still remember that smell of burning leaves in the air that meant fall was here.
We celebrate my granddaughter's birthday this October. Instead of a traditional birthday cake, we enjoyed Butterscotch Pumpkin Gingerbread Trifle. Gingerbread isn't only for Christmas desserts!
Fall Treats
This delightful easy fall treat dessert compote was made using box cake mix, boxed Butterscotch Pudding and Pumpkin Pie filling.
For an extra treat, top with crushed Heath Bar Crunch Bits 'O Brickle Toffee Bits and Whipped Topping!
This quick pudding dessert is a treat for any Halloween party and would be magnificent idea for Thanksgiving desserts too!
I also have recipes for Pumpkin Cake Mix Cookies that are awesome and so EASY!
Pumpkin Gingerbread Trifle Recipe
1 can of canned pumpkin pie filling (or use your own recipe
2 boxes of Royal or Jello Brand Butterscotch Pudding (prepared) (I prefer a cooked pudding mix)
2 boxes of Betty Crocker Gingerbread Cake mix (prepared)
whipped topping (for garnish)
Prepare all ingredients according to directions.
Alternate layers in Trifle Bowl or Compote Bowl
Refrigerate until chilled and ready to serve
Garnish with whipped topping
For fun dessert treats, why not try putting together some Pie Pops? These comfort food desserts are easy to make and can be made with any type of pie filling flavor. Pie on a Stick is sure to become a bake sale favorite.
Pie Pops Fun Desserts
You can put all kinds of stuff on a stick. Use any type of pie filling, but I think the fruit pie filling such as apple pie, blueberry, peach pie, mince meat pie, or mixed berry pie filling work best. You can use canned pie fillings or make homemade pie filling.
Over the holidays while babysitting my granddaughter, we made Snowman cake on a stick pops. When I babysit the grandkids during the February school vacation we make Cherry Pie on a Stick to celebrate President's Day weekend.
Fall is a wonderful time to try your hand at Apple hand-held pies on a stick!
For a yummy snack or dessert in a brown bag lunch, slip these homemade pie pops into a wax paper sandwich bag.
If you prefer, turn this stuff on a stick into meat pies with a meat filling and make Empanadas for dinner or lunch, or football parties!
Here's a recipe for Apple Pie on a Stick. Check out more recipes for Apple Desserts !
Pie on a Stick
*Crust:*
1 1/3 cups King Arthur all-purpose flour or white whole wheat flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 cup Cabot butter, chilled and cut into pieces
1/4 cup shortening, chilled and cut into pieces
2-4 Tbsp. ice-cold water
*Filling:*
1/4 cup butter
3 lb tart apples (such as peeled and roughly chopped
1/2 cup Domino sugar
pinch salt
1 egg, lightly beaten
Popsicle sticks or lollipop sticks
coarse sugar or cinnamon, for sprinkling
Make the pastry: in a large bowl or the bowl, stir together the flour, sugar and salt. Add the butter and shortening and use a fork, pastry blender, wire whisk or the "pulse" motion of the food processor to blend the mixture until it resembles coarse meal, with lumps of fat no bigger than a pea.
Drizzle the minimum amount of water over the mixture and stir until the dough comes together, adding a little more a bit at a time if you need it. Gather the dough into a ball, flatten it into a disc, wrap it in plastic and chill for at least half an hour.
Meanwhile in a large, heavy skillet, heat the butter over medium-high heat. When the foaming subsides, add the apples and cook until they start releasing their juices. Sprinkle the sugar and salt over top. Cook for about 10 more minutes, stirring often, until the moisture evaporates and the syrup thickens, and the apples start to turn golden. Remove from the heat and transfer to a bowl to cool.
Preheat the oven to 375F.
On a lightly floured surface, roll the pastry out 1/4 inch thick. Cut into 2-3 inch rounds with a cookie cutter or glass rim, and brush the edge with beaten egg. Place a lollipop stick on the edge, overlapping the pastry by about 1/2 inch, and place a spoonful of the apple mixture in the middle of the pastry circle. Top with a second circle and press the edges with a fork to seal. Transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet, brush with a little more beaten egg and sprinkle with coarse sugar or cinnamon. Repeat with the remaining pastry and filling.
Bake for 20-25 minutes, until golden. Let cool for at least 10 minutes before serving. Makes about a dozen pie pops.
You've probably heard the old saying, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Here's a delicious Apple Pandowdy recipe that you can enjoy using fresh fall apples.
I'm also going to share a few nutrition facts for apples so you'll know why Mom or Grandmom says to eat several servings of fruit every day! (Be sure to check out my recipe for apple cake with caramel whiskey sauce too!) There's so many wonderful things to do with apples!
Now's the time to stop by your local farm stand or farmer's market for fresh fall produce!
We've been taught in health or home economics classes that the food pyramid tells us to get a certain number of servings of fruits and vegetables a day. But, all fruits are not created equal. They may all have a benefit for our health but not necessarily the same benefits. What’s inside of these foods determines how they will impact our health.
Apple Pandowdy
Nutrition Value in the Apple
Apples make a good overall showing in the healthy fruit category. They're small enough to carry along with you wherever you go and don’t bruise as easily as other fruits with softer flesh. Apples come in several varieties that have been bred for certain features.
Sourdough Apple Cake
If you're a baker who loves Sourdough recipes, try this wonderful Sourdough Apple Cake recipe!
They sound like champion racehorses, but really they're the champions of the fruit world. If you look a bit closer, you’ll see that that crisp, white flesh is hiding a fat attacker—fiber. Insoluble fiber isn't absorbed by the body but removed. As it passes through our digestive system, it binds to fat molecules and takes them out with it.
Apples also contain plenty of Vitamin C. This vitamin plays an important role in our body. Vitamin C is needed for essential brain functions and to maintain the structure of blood vessels and bones in the body. The majority of our daily dose can come from eating an apple or two. With the incidents of osteoporosis in older women, consuming a healthy amount of Vitamin C can prevent this condition from happening to you.
Apples also contain antioxidants. Vitamin C is an antioxidant but they also contain some that are unique to apples. One is phloridzin. Researchers have found that this antioxidant called a flavonoid helps to reduce bone loss in women going through menopause.
Pectin found in apples works to reduce the amount of bad cholesterol in the blood. Bad cholesterol (LDL cholesterol, or lousy cholesterol as my doctor likes to call it) increases the chance of plaque formations in the vessels. This can lead to heart attacks or strokes. In combination with antioxidants, the amount of LDL is reduced and the vessels maintain their elasticity and prevent the clumping of platelets.
Quercetin is another antioxidant compound found in apples. Researchers believe that it functions to prevent certain diseases and cancers along with limiting the damage caused by free radicals in the body. Free radicals cause all sorts of problems as we age and antioxidants work to stop that damage and restore our bodies to a healthy state.
Apples contain no cholesterol, no fat, and very little sodium. Apples are low in calories and high in fiber. When choosing a snack or a healthy addition to recipes, look no further than your local farmers market or pick-your-own apple orchard.
This Apple Cobbler recipe makes a wonderful fall dessert. Serve warm with a dollop of yogurt to the top for a special treat. There's so many comfort food recipes and things to do with apples!
Granny’s Warm Apple Cobbler Surprise
History of the Apple
In Greek mythology, apples were a thing of value. One of the labors of Hercules was to obtain the golden apples of the Hesperides. It was a difficult labor, but being Hercules, he accomplished his task.
We see the apple again being used as a weapon of destruction in fairy tales. An apple was presented to Snow White by her wicked stepmother in an attempt to end her life. The apple lodged in her throat and did kill her, but she was revived by a prince with a warm kiss.
The apple is a symbol of birth, life, sex, and temptation. The smooth blood red color was seen as a temptation. But what is the truth of the apple?
Actually, it is a darn good fruit. If you are tempted to eat it, go right ahead. Apples are filled with benefits to improve our health and satisfy the need for something sweet.
Whatever the story you’ve heard, try one for yourself. Spread the good news of the apple around to others. Go apple picking at your favorite farm stand for awesome snacks and apple desserts !
4 Winesap apples (or your favorite baking apples) Handful of dried cranberries (optional)
1/2 C sugar (or substitute honey equivalent)
1/2 C nonfat dry milk
2/3 C quick-cooking oats, uncooked
1/4 C coconut, flaked
1/4 C almonds, chopped
1/4 C packed brown sugar
2 TBSP wheat germ
2 TBSP sesame seed
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/4 C butter or margarine (or substitute Extra Virgin Olive Oil Equivalent)
Peel the apples, Using a core remover, core and slice into thin slices.
Place 12 slices to the side.
Place the remaining apple slices in a large mixing bowl
Add the sugar and dry milk and toss to coat.
Layer the apple slices into a casserole dish
Place the 12 apple slices set to the side over the top.
Bring oven temperature to 375 degrees.
Cover the casserole dish with aluminum foil.
Bake 12 minutes.
Remove but leave the oven on.
Place the oats, coconut and almonds together in a large mixing bowl.
Add the brown sugar, wheat germ and sesame seeds.
Sprinkle with the cinnamon and nutmeg.
Cut in the butter with a pastry cutter or 2 forks until mixture becomes coarse and crumbly.
Remove the aluminum foil from the casserole dish and sprinkle the crumb mixture over the top of the apples.
Return the uncovered casserole to the oven and continue baking 15 minutes or until a golden brown on top.