Pumpkin Pound Cake

Officially.... Happy Thanksgiving!

Today, the #Blogtober14 prompt is my favourite recipe for  the fall, and with fall comes me wanting to try anything with pumpkin.

So I decided that I was finally going to try out something I pinned.  ( I know...weird)

Pumpkin Pound Cake

This is the picture I took:

This is the picture the recipe gal took, it makes it look much more inviting. Obviously she is a food blogger, and I am definitely not. Oh, I suppose I should mention this recipe is from Sing For Your Supper.

So how to make this delicious and not diet worthy treat:

The goods:

1 cup granulated sugar

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup canola oil

3 eggs

3 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

1 package instant vanilla pudding mix

1 can (15 ounces) pumpkin puree

The how to:

In a large bowl, combine sugar and oil until blended. 

Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. 

In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, cloves and pudding mix; add to egg mixture alternately with pumpkin, beating well after each addition.

Transfer to a greased bundt pan. 

Bake at 350 degrees for 60-65 minutes or until toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. 

Cool for 10 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack.

 Remove from pan and cool completely.

 Dust with icing sugar to make it look pretty.

Enjoy and don't feel guilty. Pumpkin is healthy right!

Top 10 Fall things I Love About Fall!

1) Pumpkin Spiced Lattes. This is a given. I mean when else can you have this? The salted caramel latte is really good too. Actually, all hot drinks.

2) Pumpkin flavoured everything actually! The muffins, the oatmeal, the pies... yup. in my belly.

3)It's just so pretty out!

4)Layering, Flannel, chunky scarves-  fall fashion in general

5) Boots. As much as I love flip flops, something about wearing boots make it kind of cool. As you saw from my post last week, I have some boot envy.

 

6) Turkey day! - Here in Canada we get to celebrate it early! WOOOO! SUCKERS. Also, it should be noted that if I ever have a 'last meal' it shall be a Thanksgiving feast. I love the turkey!

7) Being cozy!

 

8) The desserts.They don't even have to be pumpkin flavour. But maple, caramel, or butterscotch perhaps



9)Soup! It feels weird for me to eat soup in the summer, but with fall! soup time!

10) Halloween! (the "acceptable" time to set out skulls)

Delicious looking Salads

Some days I crave salads. Today is that day. So, I started browsing on the good ol' interweb for some delicious looking ones, and well felt compelled to share. Time to recreate!

(click on the picture for the recipe...in most cases)

 

 

 

Being healthy never tasted so good.