Using PUMPKIN in Your Recipes

Tis the season to bake and make with pumpkins.
Starbuck’s has their pumpkin latte’s out.
Some fast food restaurants have pumpkin milkshakes.
It is time to get out our own pumpkin recipes as well.

I came across a healthy cookbook that my mom has given me called SNACKERS by Maureen and Jim Wallace. I found some great healthy recipes in there to help you during this season of candy and sweets. I thought some of these pumpkin recipes might be good for your children. Good tasting, fun to make, and less sugar. Where can a parent go wrong?

Pumpkin Cheesecake
Page 34, 35

Ingredients:
*1/2 cup ground walnuts
*3/4 cup wheat germ
*1 tablespoon honey
*1/4 cup melted butter
*2 cups (16 oz.) cream cheese
*1 cup yogurt
*3 tablespoons whole wheat flour
*1 cup honey
*4 eggs, separated
*1 teaspoon lemon juice
*1 cup pureed pumpkin
*1 teaspoon cinnamon
*1 teaspoon nutmeg
*1/2 teaspoon ginger
*1/4 teaspoon cloves

For crust: combine walnuts, wheat germ, honey, and butter and press inot the bottom of a 9-inch spring form pan.
For filling: cream together cream cheese, yogurt, flour, and honey until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at a time; then add lemon juice, pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves. Fold into stiffly beaten egg whites and pour into above crust. BAke at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes to 30 minutes or until firm and lightly browned.

Pumpkin Cookies
page 58

*3/4 cup honey
*1 cup pumpkin pureed
*1/2 cup oil
*1 teaspoon vanilla
*2 cups whole wheat flour
*1/4 cup soy flour
*2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
*1/2 teaspoon salt
*1 teaspoon cinnamon
*1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
*1/4 teaspoon ginger
*1 cup raisins
*1/2 cup chopped nuts

Mix honey, pumpkin, oil, and vanilla. Combine dry ingredients; add to pumpkin mix. Stir in raisins and nuts. Drop by spoonfuls onto oiled cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes.

Pumpkin Pudding
Page 70, 71

Ingredients
*1-1/2 cups milk
*1/2 cup powdered milk
*1-1/2 cups cooked pumpkin
*1/2 cup molasses
*3 slightly beaten eggs
*1 teaspoon each salt and cinnamon
*1/2 teaspoon each ginger and cloves
*1 teaspoon vanilla
*1 cup chopped nuts

Blend milk and powdered milk togethr in saucepan. Stir in pumpkin, molasses, eggs, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Cook until mixture thickens. Cool slightly and add vanilla and chopped nuts.

Again these three great pumpkin recipes came from the cookbook titled: Kick the Junk Food habit with SNACKERS by Maureen and Jim Wallace. There are over 200 recipes in this cookbook. It is a healthy alternative to those sugary recipes.

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Stacey Walker has a Homemade Gourmet Home Business. She uses her Homemade Gourmet products regularly for cooking fast and easy to prepare meals. She is currently using Homemade Gourmet in her meal planning and when teaching her children to cook. Visit her website at www.4minutemeals.com.

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