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Part of my reason for making a Pumpkin Cream Pie recently was to fill some little chocolate cups I found a while ago.
I simply spooned the filling into the cups and added some cinnamon flavored whipped cream to the top.
They were a great dessert for some dinner guests we had last weekend, and were a particularly big hit with some teen-aged boys.
They were a tasty seasonal dessert that was easy to serve and looked so pretty!
It’s been too long since I made a pumpkin flavored recipe! It’s time to add a few recipes to my Queen of the Season collection.
This recipe is a cream pie, with pumpkin in it. The pumpkin flavor is more subtle than a traditional pumpkin pie due to the cream and is also lighter (but still very rich).
I took my banana cream pie recipe and altered it a bit to make this pie. I was pleased with how much everyone liked it.
Pumpkin Cream Pie Ingredients:
1 9 inch pie crust, prepared, baked and cooled 3/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup corn starch 1/2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. cinnamon 1/4 tsp. nutmeg 1 envelope unflavored gelatin 3 cups milk 4 egg yolks 1 cup pumpkin puree 2 Tb. butter 1 Tb. clear vanilla 2 1/2 cups cold whipping cream, separated Combine dry ingredients in a medium-large saucepan with wire whisk. Beat in milk, egg yolks and pumpkin. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until thickened (about 15 minutes). Remove from heat, stir in butter and vanilla. Cover with plastic and chill.
Whip 1 cup cream and fold into custard. Pour into pie crust. Chill well. Whip remaining cream and spread over pie before serving. *I like to add 1/2 tsp. cinnamon to the whipping cream. Enjoy!
Remember my stack of fabric from last week? It’s now a quilt top.
This is one of two quilts I promised myself I’d make in/for the fall. I intended to do it in September, but as you can see, I’m running behind.
The pattern I used is Merry-Go-Round by American Jane . I also bought their set of equilateral rulers because I didn’t have any. It made the cutting fast and easy. Rather than purchase three jelly rolls (yikes, expensive!) I used yardage I already had. I made the quilt a little bit smaller, taking off three rows, but it’s still a big quilt.
One of my favorite elements of this quilt is the addition of tape measure prints from the Tailor Made collection. They add a lot to the quilt and I’m glad I chose to include them.
The big question now is how to quilt it. If I knew how to do free motion quilting, I’d probably opt for that, but this quilt would be too big to learn on, and I’m sure I’d ruin it. So I’m going back to finish another quilt while I think about this one.
Hopeful Homemaker