Friendly Autumn Baking Tips:
When Making Pumpkin Themed Things, if your batter is too dry, don’t add water or milk, add more pumpkin. Canned pumpkin is extremely high in water content and works like a liquid in recipes. Add a little at a time to maintain the consistency and you might need to adjust your baking time as well.
Also, if a Pumpkin Themed Recipe calls for vegetable oil? Absolutely not. Add more pumpkin. See reason above.
A good substitute for pumpkin (if you’re out!) is applesauce. Also works as a liquid, little to no taste and shouldn’t affect the integrity of your baked goods. Add small amounts, keep an eye on your consistency and pay attention to baking times.
Always double the amount of holiday spice in a pumpkin recipe. It doesn’t need one tsp of cinnamon, it’s needs at least one HEAPING teaspoon of cinnamon and most likely, two teaspoons. Pumpkin doesn’t taste like anything, Pumpkin Pie Spice does. Sweeten it up till it reminds you of pie. If the recipe calls for ¼ tsp of any of the holiday type spices, it’s wrong. You need more. Holiday spices are like garlic, you measure it with your soul not with a recipe.
Speaking of spices and sweetening, Pumpkin Pie Spice is expensive and can be hard to find. Pumpkin Pie Spice is also just cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and all spice. Substitute in cinnamon and nutmeg, then ginger and allspice if you have it. If you don’t have ginger and allspice, sprinkle in some cloves. If you don’t have cloves, seriously cinnamon and nutmeg will just about cover it. Don’t stress, no one will be able to tell you didn’t have allspice and if they CAN tell, tell them complainers don’t get holiday sweets and to just shut up about it.
Muffin recipes can usually be dumped into a loaf pan and baked up as bread. Maybe a higher temperature (375 vs 350) and foil at the edges of the pan to keep the top from burning while the middle cooks. If you feel like the recipe needs a little something, toss in a handful of chocolate chips. Pumpkin and Chocolate is the absolute best.
Homemade Whipped Cream is laughably easy. Two cups heavy whipping cream, ¾ cup sugar (or less!). Dump it in to a mixer on high until it fluffs up stiff or dump into a bowl and whisk until your arm falls off. Either way. Super easy, super delicious and nothing feels quite as Smug as being able to say “the whipped cream is homemade” when everyone tries to just eat it by the spoonful out of the bowl.
Bake It Up Y’all. Happy Pumpkin Season
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