Gobble! Gobble!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope you had a fabulous turkey day and you stuffed your bellies to no end (I know I did). What am I thankful for? Stretchy pants!!  This year my brother hosted Thanksgiving so yay! no cooking for me! (but boooo no turkey samiches leftover style). 

Tons of food was cooked, it was all so yummy!! Of course I baked some goodies and brought them along to the par-tay.

I made Pumpkin Spice cupcakes with a NEW Cream Cheese frosting recipe (it turned out GREAT)
and also made Pumpkin Mini Loafs.  Check it out!

Sister in law made homemade pumpkin pie! What's Turkey day without it :)

Mini Pumpkin Loafs

As mentioned in my last post, I picked up the lovely little mini loaf pan from Sur La Table. I was so excited to use it (I've wanted this little sucker for some time now). 

I used a recipe for pumpkin bread that was recommended to me and all I have to say is THANK YOU!!! This is by far the best pumpkin bread recipe I've had. Now let me tell you, there is nothing fancy about this recipe, nothing in it that most others don't have, but for some reason this recipe was extra moist and extremely flavorful - the pan helped too I'm sure.  The recipe calls for chopped walnuts, but sweet tooF doesn't like walnuts so I made it w/out. 

Here is the recipe:
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup pumpkin puree
1/2 cup olive oil
2 eggs beaten
1/4 cup water
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Bake at 350.  This recipe makes 1 loaf baked at 50-60 mins (you could easily double for more) and if you're using the mini loaf pan like I did, it was exactly enough for 8 mini loafs baked at 25-30 mins. 
**For detailed recipe email me TreatsBySweetB@gmail.com **

Here it is ready to for some oven lovin'

 All done! So golden brown :)

These were so deeeeelish!!! I highly recommend this recipe. It will definitely warm anyone's tummy.  The pan is a plus, makes them bite size! Ok, more like 4 bites size :)

Hooray for New Tools!

So I've mentioned before that I absolutely LOVE LOVE the store Sur La Table. Sweet tooF purchased some AWESOME pans for me and they are FABULOUS! Now I want one in every size, shape, you name it. If they sell it, I want it. In the words of that spoiled brat Veruca Salt from one of the BEST. MOVIES. EVER. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original, not the lame Johnny Depp one)  "I want it now!"
On my recent visit, I spotted this bad boy:

Awesome you say? Why yes, it is. It's an 8 count Mini Loaf Pan, perrrrfect for the holidays. This will make the cutest little pumpkin bread loafs. Perfect gift for a  friend, co-worker (the actual loaf of bread, not the pan, however, the pan kicks ass so it really would be a great gift too).  Every year we make pumpkin bread in a regular loaf pan and it takes forever to eat, it's like an never ending loaf, but with these, they're mini (and everything mini is cute right?) so we can freeze a few while eating the others!

I'm heading over today to pick this little guy up AND I just heard they are having a Friends and Family Event 20% off that ends TODAY.  I'm so there. ( oh and sweet tooF, I promise not to max out the credit card hehee...)