Harvest Pumpkin Apple Bread .. Yum!

So I found another pumpkin bread recipe when I was on the hunt for the Cranberry Pumpkin bread. This one took fresh chopped apple. It looked so yummy that I had to try it. It also gave me the chance to use my knew Nordic Loaf Pan!! I so love Nordic Ware!! I found the recipe again at Meals.com so yay for a link!!  We loved the Harvest Pumpkin Apple Bread! It was so tasty and fresh! And of course I had to add some nuts!! So I through in some walnuts as well. Super tasty recipe!!



Harvest Pumpkin Apple Bread:
Ingredients:

3 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 3 cups granulated sugar 1 can (15 oz.) LIBBY'S® 100% Pure Pumpkin 4 large eggs 1 cup vegetable oil 1/2 cup apple juice or water 1 large baking apple, peeled, cored and diced

 

Directions

PREHEAT oven to 350° F. Grease and flour two 9 x 5-inch loaf pans.

COMBINE flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Combine sugar, pumpkin, eggs, vegetable oil and apple juice in large mixer bowl; beat until just blended. Add pumpkin mixture to flour mixture; stir just until moistened. Fold in apples. Spoon batter into prepared loaf pans.

BAKE for 65 to 70 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

FOR THREE 8 X 4-INCH LOAF PANS:
PREPARE as above. Bake for 60 to 65 minutes.

FOR FIVE OR SIX 5 X 3-INCH MINI-LOAF PANS:
PREPARE as above. Bake for 55 to 60 minutes.

Sticky Apple Pecan Cinnamon Rolls!

 I attempted another Yeast Roll Recipe!! Well this and the pumpkin caramel rolls were the ones that snagged me right away when searching for the dinner roll recipe. I couldn't resist trying this one as well, hoping to see if the pumpkin rolls came out so wonderful because they were a fluke haha! So from Breadworld.com comes Sticky Apple Cinnamon Rolls!!  I mean.. come on YUM!! I did do my own tweak to it by adding Pecans. I am a nut girl.. haven't you seen that nuts are in almost everything haha.. they just make things better!!! So I added about a cup of chopped pecans to the topping before pouring and spreading it in the pans and added about 3/4 of a cup of chopped pecans to the filling. These are approximations!! I chopped and dumped, looked and chopped a few more hehe.. now the recipe says it yields 15-18, I did 2 foil pans and got 24. I may have cut them smaller in order to get the 2 dozen which was my preference! They were super yummy! much breadier than the pumpkin rolls, but oh so good!! The caramel topping is amazing. They were like a sticky bun version of apple pie in cinnamon roll form! Oh so good, which is my favorite?? There is no way I can chose lol.

Sticky Apple Cinnamon Rolls

Yield: 15 to 18

Bake Time: 20 to 22 Min

Proof Time: 1-1/4 Min

 

Dough:

6 to 7 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
2 envelopes Fleischmann's® RapidRise Yeast
2 teaspoons salt
2 cups milk
1/4 cup butter or margarine
2 eggs

Filling
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1/2 cup butter (no substitutions)
2 cups finely chopped peeled apple

Topping
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter (no substitutions)
1/4 cup Karo® Corn Syrup

Directions:

For Dough:
Combine 3 cups flour, sugar, undissolved yeast and salt in a large bowl.  Heat milk and butter until very warm (120° F to 130° F).   Gradually add to flour mixture.   Beat 2 minutes at medium speed of electric mixer, scraping bowl occasionally.  Add eggs and 2 cups of flour; beat 2 minutes at medium speed.  Stir in remaining 1 to 2 cups flour to make a stiff dough.   Turn dough out on floured surface and knead for 5 minutes or until dough is smooth.

Place in greased bowl, turning once to coat.  Cover; let rise in warm, draft-free area until doubled in size, about 45 minutes.  Punch dough down and divide in half.  Roll each piece into a 12 X 10-inch rectangle.

For Filling:
Mix brown sugar, sugar, flour, cinnamon and butter with a pastry blender until it resembles coarse meal.  Sprinkle over dough.  Place chopped apples evenly over filling.  Roll up jelly-roll fashion.   Slice into 1-1/2 inch slices (about 16 rolls).

For Topping:
Place brown sugar, butter and corn syrup in medium saucepan.  Cook and stir over medium heat 2 to 3 minutes or until melted.  Pour into metal 13 X 9-inch pan or TWO 8-inch square pans.  Place rolls cut side down in pan.  Cover and let rise until doubled in size (about 30 minutes).  Preheat oven to 350° F.  Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown.  Invert on platter while warm.

 Seriously delicious!!! I am definitely obsessed with wanting to work with yeast bread items now! Only what to do with them all and where to find time to do everything else around them! Oh and how amazing they look in pictures!! hahaha! Enjoy!

Pecan Tart for Thanksgiving

I take pictures with full intentions of keeping up on my blog, but life as I know keeps from that and I fail at keeping it up. At least they make it here at some point! I had honestly planned to post my entire Thanksgiving, we were having the whole family up and cooking here. A nice big 21 lb turkey with all the fixing. Instead I have pictures of things at the start and in the chaos never got pics of the finished products! Well a picture of the spread of sides and a table set and that is about it! Luckily my Pecan and Pumpkin Pies were done the day before, so Pics got taken! The pumpkin pie was just the simple Libby's recipe on the can, and ironically it was my first ever pumpkin pies made, for some reason I just never made any haha. They did come out pretty though! The Pecan Tart on the other hand, I love Pecan pie, but to me it can be a bit rich and sweet, so in Tart form you get that pecan pie fix with out being too much! I love Cooking Light, it is my favorite magazine! I recently got a book in the mail "Cooking Light Way to Cook". Great Book! and in the back was this recipe, now I went on line to Cookinglight.com and yay it was there too, making posting the recipe so much easier as I can also share the link! I did do a slight tweak, the recipe calls for only 2/3c pecans, and once they were in I was like oh heck no and added a good handful or so to the batter. I am sure this took away from the better for you factor! but oh my was it good! Bourbon-Pecan Tart with Chocolate Drizzle is the actual recipe, and I also left off the Chocolate Drizzle, my Grandma loves pecan pie and I didn't want to hear about the weird stuff drizzled on her pie! haha.. <3 my Family!! Either way it was a great recipe!!
Make the tart a day ahead, and store it in the refrigerator. You can use a 9-inch pie plate instead: simply roll the dough to a 13-inch circle, fold the edges under, and flute.

 
Bourbon-Pecan Tart with Chocolate Drizzle

Yield: 12 servings (serving size: 1 wedge)

Ingredients

• 1  cup  packed light brown sugar
• 3/4  cup  dark corn syrup
• 3  tablespoons  all-purpose flour
• 2  tablespoons  bourbon
• 2  tablespoons  molasses
• 1  tablespoon  butter, melted
• 1/2  teaspoon  vanilla extract
• 1/4  teaspoon  salt
• 2  large eggs
• 1  large egg white
• 2/3  cup  pecan halves (I added at least another 2/3 cup, just added til I felt it had enough)
• 1/2  (15-ounce) package refrigerated pie dough (such as Pillsbury)
• Cooking spray
• 1/2  ounce  bittersweet chocolate, chopped (Left this out)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350°.
Combine first 10 ingredients, stirring well with a whisk. Stir in pecans. Roll dough into a 13-inch circle; fit into a 9-inch removable-bottom tart pan coated with cooking spray. Trim excess crust using a sharp knife. Spoon sugar mixture into prepared crust. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until center is set. Cool completely on a wire rack.
Place chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl; microwave at HIGH 1 minute. Stir until smooth. Drizzle chocolate over tart.

 and just cause I have the picture!! here are Libby's Pumpkin Pies!! They were quite tasty! and again, just the wonderful recipe off the giant can of Pumpkin!
Sadly I never got a picture of my Grandpa's German chocolate cake, it was his 76th Birthday on Thanksgiving Day!! So he got his favorite. Over all it was a fantastic holiday meal!!

Pumpkin Caramel Rolls

On the hunt for my Great Grandma's Roll Recipe, we found out that she just tweaked the recipe on the back of a Fleischmann's yeast package. Well there are no longer recipes on the back, so we found the website. In my search through the recipes I found this recipe. It wasn't an active dry yeast recipe I realized after buying the yeast. So I tweaked it per the instructions on substituting. These are delicious!! absolutely fantastic, and beautiful! I have not worked with yeast in a long time, and was honestly afraid. I was extremely proud and will definitely be testing out more recipes. This will be made again, they are great sweet rolls!

Yield: 24 rolls

Bake Time: 25 Min

Proof Time: 2 Min

Ingredients:

Dough:
1 envelope Fleischmann's® Active Dry Yeast (Rapid Dry Yeast)
6 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup sugar + 1 tsp

1-1/2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup buttermilk

1/2 cup warm orange juice
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 egg
1 cup canned solid-pack pumpkin


Filling:
3/4 cup butter, melted
2 cups brown sugar
1 cup finely chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon Spice Islands® 100% Pure Bourbon Vanilla Extract
1 teaspoon Spice Islands® Ground Saigon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Spice Islands® Pumpkin Pie Spice

Glaze:
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1/3 cup Karo® Light Corn Syrup
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon Spice Islands® 100% Pure Bourbon Vanilla Extract
1/2 teaspoon orange extract

Directions:

Mix sugar, salt, 1/2c flour, baking soda, and yeast in mixing bowl.

Warm Orange Juice, buttermilk, and butter to 120-130 degrees. Add to Mixing bowl with dry ingredients. Mix well. Add egg, pumpkin and mix. Gradually add enough remaining flour to make soft dough. 

Turn dough out on a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 6 to 8 minutes.  Cover with a dry towel and let rest for at least 10 minutes.

Stir together all filling ingredients in a medium bowl until well blended.  Set aside.

Divide dough in half.  Roll one half of dough into a 9 x 15-inch rectangle.  Spread half of filling mixture over dough, leaving a 3/4-inch border.  Roll up dough from the long side.  Slice dough into 12 equal portions.  Repeat with remaining dough.  Place 12 rolls in each of two greased 13 x 9-inch baking pans.  Cover and let rise for 30 minutes in a warm, draft free area. 

For glaze, combine brown sugar, corn syrup and butter in a small saucepan over medium heat.  Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat and stir in cream, vanilla and orange extracts. 

Bake rolls in a preheated 400°F oven for 10 minutes.  Remove from oven and slowly drizzle glaze over top of rolls, allowing the glaze to soak in.  Bake rolls an additional 10 to 15 minutes, until lightly browned. 

Cool slightly and invert rolls on foil lined plate.  Then invert rolls again onto serving dish. 

Beautiful and so delicious. Once made, I am already thinking of the tweaks I can do to these babies. High Five Breadworld.com  for having a fantastic recipe!! Soo good!!!