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Fresh Pumpkin Pie

This year, Lily, Emmy and I decided to bake a pumpkin pie using real pie pumpkins instead of pumpkin from a can.

Whole pumpkins, baked for 40 minutes at 375 degrees. I just love their color!
Pumpkin innards
Lily enjoyed scooping out the pumpkins seeds!
Emmy….not so much.
The skin peeled off of the baked pumpkins very easily!
I pureed the pumpkin in a food processor attachment that came with my blender.
After I pureed the pumpkin, I made pumpkin pie as usual! Delicious!

Have you made fresh pumpkin pie before?

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No Birthday Cake Here

The chocolate brownie ice cream cake was lopsided. And there was frost covering one side of it. I couldn’t even finish my piece, not because I was full, but because it just didn’t taste that good.

Lily had requested an ice cream cake for her 7th birthday, and to tell you the truth, I was crushed. I enjoy baking her cake at home and decorating it myself. Somewhere between her sixth and seventh birthdays, however, she decided that cake was not her thing. Enter the lopsided brownie ice cream cake from the generic ice cream shop down the street.

For her 8th birthday, Lily wanted an ice cream cake again. I inwardly sighed and decided I had to buy it from a different place; a place where hopefully the cake would be frost free.

But then, a couple of days before her birthday, Lily changed her mind. She wanted something fruity.

Something strawberry! Something creamy! Something delicious!

strawberry shortcake
Strawberry shortcake for Lily’s 8th birthday!

I was happy to oblige.

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