Fall baking has begun!

It is that time of year... cooler weather, pumpkin everything, apple everything, desserts to serve with warm drinks, muffins for breakfast. I L.O.V.E. fall.

So, I've started to pick up my fall recipes again . . here are a few recent ones!

 Pumpkin Spice Cake Muffins! This is Jeff's favorite fall breakfast and it is EASY BREEZY to make.

Ingredients for muffin mix:

• 1 box of Spice Cake Mix
• 1 1/2 cans of pureed pumpkin

 Ingredients for topping:

• 1/4 cup of brown sugar
• 1 - 2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon (depends on how much cinnamon you like)

Directions:

1. Mix spice cake and pureed pumpkin and there are very few lumps in the dough 
2.  Spray muffin cups with nonstick baking spray
3. I use a cookie scoop to fill muffin cups about 2/3 of the way (note that the muffins do not fluff much)
4. Mix brown sugar and cinnamon with fork and sprinkle on each muffin
5. Bake at 350 for 18 - 22 minutes

Makes about 18 - 20 muffins

S'mores Cookie Bars

This recipe came from the Hershey website, but I doubled all ingredients, baked it in a 9x9 pan instead of 8x8, and it turned out much better! They were gone in a flash!

https://www.hersheys.com/recipes/recipe-details.aspx?id=3834

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine , softened
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1  egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1-1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 4  (1.55 oz. each) HERSHEY'S Milk Chocolate Bars
• 1 cup marshmallow creme

Directions

1. 1 Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 8-inch square baking pan.
   
2. 2 Beat butter and sugar in large bowl until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat well. Stir together flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt; add to butter mixture, beating until blended. Press half of dough into prepared pan.
   
3. 3 Arrange chocolate bars over dough, breaking as needed to fit. Spread with marshmallow creme. Scatter bits of remaining dough over marshmallow; carefully press to form a layer.
   
4. 4 Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Cut into bars. 16 bars.

No-Bake Oatmeal Cookies

This is currently the best dessert I can possibly make while pregnant! I could eat them all in a minute! YUM!

 
 I just use melted semi-sweet chocolate chips instead of cocoa (about 1/2 cup). I also add about 1/2 cup of extra peanut butter and 1/2 cup LESS sugar.


http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/cooking-live/chocolate-peanut-butter-no-bake-cookies-recipe/index.html