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Light Pumpkin Pie … pie that thinks it’s a cheesecake
“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.” Yogi Berra Light Pumpkin Pie. It’s difficult to not think pumpkin and get deluged by orange thoughts once fall is in the air. Come autumn, and pumpkin pie spice is the on the top of my head. It breaks my heart to say goodbye to stone fruit when summer draws to a close, and somewhere in the hot summer months I always forget the charm of fall. These days there’s loads of pumpkin on the table. Oh the orange hues. persimmons, pumpkin {which is there pretty much all the year around here though}, and the little bitter…
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Dark Chocolate & Persimmon Mousse … Fall desserts!
Light, smooth, deep and delicious fall dessert topped with then enchanting orange of persimmon puree. Dark Chocolate & Persimmon Mousse is a great vegetarian make ahead dessert that will gladden the hardcore chocolate lovers heart!
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Pumpkin Pie Spice and Walnut Loaf Cake with Buttermilk Frosting
This Pumpkin Pie Spice and Walnut Loaf Cake with Buttermilk Frosting is based on the buttermilk pound cake which I make very often. It's healthy with a generous dose of whole wheat flour. The pumpkin and pie spice added a nice deep dimension to it. Buttermilk frosting and marzipan make it festive.
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Baking| Perfect Pumpkin Pie … and simple too {#getsmart}
This is a pie right for fall. The filling … silky, smooth and spicy! The crust just right, not too crisp, yet offers a handsome bite, gently teasing the palette with beautiful pistachio flavours and a pleasing texture. {..with roasted pumpkin puree from scratch}
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Classic Spiced Apple Walnut Buttermilk Coffee Cake – R’ock-tober #baketogether
A moist and packed with 'fall' flavours coffee cake. It's got a few of my favourite things - apples, cinnamon and walnuts!
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Spiced Apple Cake … Autumn Warmth!
“Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire”Charles Dudley Warner Sometimes, or rather often as in my case, you see a tweet about a blog post, get to the post & you just know you are so making it, and soon. This was just what happened when my dear friend Petah tweeted about a Spiced Pear Cake the other day. 2 reactions were immediate – WOW!!, and the other… WHAT? Petah & baking sweet stuff? Don’t recall seeing any bakes at his blog, evah, so I almost fell off my twitter column. Lori & me raced…