I recently had a social function to attend and these days I see social functions as an opportunity to experiment (with recipes, not what ever else is going through your mind).
The theme was autumn and I had left over pumpkin, so I wanted to find a recipe for pumpkin bars, cake, cheese cake or something of the sort. Over the course of a few days I searched for the perfect recipe, which proved to be a bit more difficult then I expected. During this search I had several, random thoughts.
- Evidently Brandy is the liquid libation of choice to go with pumpkin
- Why does every Pumpkin bar recipe have a cream cheese frosting? (I am not a big fan of cream cheese)
- Where is Loren Bennett when you need him (former State Senator and Statewide candidate who was known for giving out his homemade pumpkin butter)
- This recipe calls for ginger, cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon – that is a lots of spices, maybe I can just double up on the nutmeg since I have a lifetime supple, then again maybe not.
- Is the Captain considered dark rum? It is darker then Bacardi. Good thing the government only shut down for a few hours or I would not be able to buy some of my ingredients.
- This is the 88th time I have seen this recipe – is there only one type of pumpkin bars?
Finally after much searching I found the recipe I was looking for.
It turned out pretty good – several people gave it thumbs up. My family thinks the frosting is a bit rich, so I might have to do a bit of tweaking, but I am happy with the trial run.
2 comments:
two-thumbs up for cream cheese frosting and anything made w/ cream cheese!
This one has a brown sugar frosting - so it is yummy. The 88 other ones had the cream cheese - but since I am not a fan I wanted something different.
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