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How To Use Up Your Pumpkin

2/11/2017

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Halloween's come and gone - is your pumpkin still hanging around? Here are our three favourite ways to use up your pumpkin to avoid food waste.

1. Pumpkin Spice Cake

Pumpkin Spice Cake
If you, like us, enjoy a piece of spiced cake, this pumpkin spice cake from All Recipes is for you. There's ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg in this bake, and it uses bread flour for extra wholesomeness. It's moist and light, and goes perfect with a cup of tea.

2. Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins

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Friend of 280 Bakes, Louise G, sent us this recipe for Paleo Double Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins - sooo tasty! Remember, paleo (no flour or refined sugar) cakes don't rise as much, so full your muffin cases well.

1 cup creamy almond butter
1/2 cup pumpkin puree
1/4 cup cocoa powder
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 cup coconut sugar
1/4 cup maple syrup
(we used golden syrup - they're interchangeable here)
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips (plus extra for topping)


Preheat your oven to 180 degrees and line a 12 cupcake tin with paper cases. Mix all the ingredients bar the chocolate chips) in a bowl - should be a fairly thick batter. Fold in the chocolate chips and divide the mixture into the 12 cups. Sprinkle with extra chocolate chips, if desired - we like this touch!

Bake for about 20 mins until the cakes are firm to the touch. Allow them to cool before serving.




3. Chocolate Pumpkin Brownies

Pumpkin chocolate brownies
No collection of sweet pumpkin recipes is complete without a recipe for brownies. Pumpkin is perfect for using in this kind of bake, and the brownies don't stick around long after they've baked - they're perfect snacks. This recipe uses less butter (replacing it with cream cheese) and recommends sprinkling them with walnuts, but we like them with almonds too.

Don't let that pumpkin go to waste - get baking!

The Team @ 280 Bakes



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