Current Song: Travie McCoy/Jason Mraz-Rough Waters (obsessed with this song!)
MANIC MONDAY IN FULL EFFECT!
Monday's are always our super busiest day at the office; however, I've taken time away on this beautiful autumn day to tell you how amazing my pumpkin minis were yesterday!
Dom's parents had a Ravens/Squealers game day cookout yesterday (don't want to talk about our loss) and we all watched the game outside on two screens with a bunch of excellent food and some brews. Ever heard of Cinge?? You should try it. Cinnamon Tequila. End of story.
Dom made some AWESOME homemade cookies (his first time!!!) with the leftover spent grain from his beer making shenanigans. How creative he is--I would have never thought about reusing them! But after they get drained from the homemade beer, they really just go to waste. So he looked up some recipes online for what he could use them in.
He chose to make some chocolate cranberry cookies and pumpkin cinnamon chip cookies. The pumpkin ones were definitely my favorite of the two. They both turned out so good, so proud of you babe!!
We planned to just take them to the Ravens cookout since we were going camping over the weekend and I wouldn't really have had time to bake anything before we had to head over their house. However, our second night of camping got rained out at Rausch Creek so we decided to come home Saturday night. That meant I had time to bake some scrumptious mini pumpkin cupcakes with homemade cinnamon whipped cream. Talk about YUM.
These tasted like pumpkin pie in your mouth. No joke. Except I don't really like pumpkin pie so they were even better than a pie-act-alike! The whipped cream really made it seem like pie. And they were so moist to the touch it was incredible.
I used to hate that word--moist. Extremely hard to leave it out of a baker's vocab though, trust me!
Anyways, I plan to make some substitutions to this recipe and make it my very own. I definitely won't change the frosting though. The whipped cream was perfecto.
Fun Tip: Dom said that he wished I didn't have to put cupcake liners in the pans before making these so that he could just pop 'em in his mouth one after the other (they were that good). Fact--you can make them without papers! Just make sure you spray the pan VERY well before pouring the batter in. This will make them even more convenient for your guests! Avoids random wrappers laying around too from the kiddos :)
Fall favorite--try it out! Cheers!
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