Pumpkin Cake

Had some left over pumpkin from a dessert I make a week ago, found this recipe from AllRecipes.com

2 cups white sugar
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups canned pumpkin
4 eggs
2 cups all purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour bunt cake pan. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Set aside.
In a large bowl combine sugar and oil. Blend in vanilla and pumpkin, then beat in eggs one at a time. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Spread batter into prepared pan.
Bake in the the oven for 1 hour or until cake tester comes out clean. Allow to cool.

I covered mine with cream cheese frosting.

Bake Sale

Tomorrow Zoey's kindergarten class is having a bake sale during Parent/Teacher Conferences. After a month of trial and error, I decided to make chocolate dipped Oreo cookies on a stick. I think they turned out pretty good. I used a pkg of Mint Oreos and a pkg of regular Oreos. I also used regular melting chocolate and vanilla flavored orange and green.

Halloween Suckers

This week I got a paper from Zoey's teacher asking parents to donate a baked good for their bake sale. After much thought, I decided to make suckers. I made the first batch with the recipe from the Betty Crocker cookbook. It had butter, sugar, and corn syrup. The suckers turned out brown. The second recipe I tried was from AllRecipes and contained water, sugar, and corn syrup. I colored it orange and they turned out perfect.

Minnesota Vacation

Our Minnesota vacation. Here is a miss-mash of photos of our fun and super busy days! I think I need a vacation from my vacation!

A Wild Evening

Sunday we went to Sheboygan for some shopping and sight-seeing. Here we are at lake Michigan and the harbor in Sheboygan.

We ate dinner Friday night at moms. She had steak pinwheels stuffed with cheese and garlic, shrimp, asparagus, mushrooms, and garlic toast on the grill. Of course, we forgot to take a picture of the meal but we did get a picture of our desert "my birthday" cake. Let's not forget the watermelon mojitos! YUM!!! We got a little goofy.

Grandma's

Some pictures from our past two weeks of fun with Grandma in Manitowoc.

My yard, after some hard work and the help of Michele.