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DL Pumpkin Muffin Recipe

Bake a Delicious Holiday Treat at Home!

Enjoy a sweet treat for Halloween and the Holiday season at the Blue Ribbon Bakery in Disneyland® Park and Baker's Field Bakery in Disney's California Adventure® Park. Continue the fun by making these delicious muffins in your own kitchen.

Pumpkin Muffins with Cream Cheese Icing


Pumpkin Muffins:
2 cups pumpkin purée (canned)
1½ cups granulated sugar
3 large eggs
¾ cup canola oil
1½ tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
¾ tsp. salt
1½ tsp. baking powder
¾ tsp. baking soda
¾ tsp. cinnamon
¾ tsp. ground cloves
¼ tsp. ground nutmeg
½ cup raisins




Preheat oven to 325ºF.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together pumpkin, sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla until well blended.
Sift together flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg over the pumpkin mixture and whisk until just blended. Over mixing may result in less tender muffins.
Fold in the raisins until consistently distributed.
Portion mixture into muffin pans and bake at 325ºF for 25 minutes.
Insert a toothpick into center of muffin and remove. If toothpick is clean, the muffins are ready. If not, allow muffins to cook an additional 1-2 minutes or until toothpick is clean.
Allow muffins to cool for 30–60 minutes.

Cream Cheese Icing:

1 cup unsalted butter
1½ cups cream cheese
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 cups powdered sugar
½ tsp. cinnamon




Allow cream cheese and butter to soften at room temperature for about an hour.
Mix cream cheese and butter together until smooth.
Add vanilla extract, powdered sugar and cinnamon, and mix until well blended.
Remove from mixer, and cover and refrigerate until needed.
Fill a pastry bag fitted with a star tip with icing.
Poke a hole into the center of each cooled muffin and squeeze icing directly into the middle of the muffin, finishing with a rosette on the top.

Special Tip: This recipe makes a generous amount. Extra icing is especially good on bagels or toast.
 
I had originally booked Hampton Inns for our drive to and from WDW next month. I noticed that if I book through MyPoints I can get points for booking Holiday Inn Express properties. We have never stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. Does anyone have any comparisons between them and Hampton Inns or Courtyard Inns?
We stayed in a Holiday Inn Express in Savannah & it was very clean & the breakfast was good.

It is partly the age thing, but I agree that she is settled in and happy. Moving won't hurt her, but she will tell you over and over again that it is the end of her life. :rolleyes: Tylenol Sinus works well for headaches, by the way. ;)
:rotfl2:

When a child gets older and has to move, it is really hard. She probably was getting settled with her friends and the thought of moving and having to start all over is kinda scary. I hated moving during those years. I always felt like the fifth wheel. When our family moved to San Diego and I started high school, I finally felt good. Then when the threat of having to move right before my senior year came up, I was thinking of running away I was so upset. We ended up staying for that last year, but I can so relate to her feelings.
Thanks Terry..I really have to try to look at it from her point of view.
 
Hey Lindsay, good to see you posting. :)



Might I suggest that instead of all the spices for the pumpkin muffins, just use pumpkin pie spice.
 

Off to work. I hope the WDW surprise announcement at 5:00 is wonderful for all of you.

(If it is earth-shattering, would someone please call my cell phone? ;) )
 
The parks were all decked out for Halloween, though, and we still managed to enjoy things, for the most part (other than that horrendous football game UT played Sat. night!).



That was a great game!

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You are forgiven for being away! Those sound decadently wonderful!! :goodvibes

Glad to hear it. ;)

Hey Lindsay, good to see you posting. :)



Might I suggest that instead of all the spices for the pumpkin muffins, just use pumpkin pie spice.

Hi, Heidi. :flower3:

I'm so not the expert on baking, as I always just follow the recipe word-for-word. But, I'm sure you're probably right. :goodvibes
 
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That was a great game!

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I hate to say it, but if UT had won, we would have robbed you guys of the victory. They played like absolute you-know-what.

Great win for you guys! Now, good luck with all the rest of the South! ;)
 
The only way it would be earth shattering is if they were giving away a weeks vacation, to everyone going in 2009.

(If it is earth-shattering, would someone please call my cell phone? ;) )
 
Lindsay I always follow a recipe word for word also, except for when a pumpkin recipe calls for all thoes spices.
 
I hate to say it, but if UT had won, we would have robbed you guys of the victory. They played like absolute you-know-what.

Great win for you guys! Now, good luck with all the rest of the South! ;)

Yea very true, our little journey is just like yours, with quite a few bumps in the road.

However I do think our defense made it a little more difficult on the t-sips. It wasn't all just bad play on their part.
 
The only way it would be earth shattering is if they were giving away a weeks vacation, to everyone going in 2009.

I have to say the B4G3 thing will not benefit me in any way. If that's what the offer is, then that will be terrific for anyone who can actually go for a week during the dates they specify. It will also put an abrupt stop to my calendar gazing and airfare browsing!
 
No one will cook. Elin's wine business and Robyn and Amy's cake business is going to floruish SO WELL that we can pay for hired help. For cooking, cleaning and the yard work.

I'd be willing to do household maintenance projects and Chris could do car repairs :teeth: Oh and Jen could homeschool all of our kids, freeing up park time :thumbsup2

does anyone know where I can buy those small square styrofoam coolers....I need one now

I've seen them in convenience stores and even at the grocery store
 
PSA!!! My work email address has changed! It's now first initial full new last name at the same ending as before.

That sounds really confusing...but hopefully you get it. :teeth: PM me if you don't. :teeth:
 
From the resorts board...


This isn't official yet - but we hear this will be released at 5:00 pm tomorrow and we don't want you to miss out! Here is what we've heard:

Book your trip beginning at 5 pm on Thursday, November 6, 2008. How big is this discount? It's the biggest discount run by Disney Parks since 2001!

For every 4 nights - you get 3 nights free!
For every 4 days of tickets - you get 3 days free!
If you book your trip between January 4th and March 29th, you also receive a $200 Disney Gift Card to spend!

*****Book between November 6th and December 20th!*****
Travel between January 4th and June 27th!
Travel between January 4th and March 29th to include the Disney Gift Card.
Travel between March 29th and June 27th to include the discount, but not the Disney Gift Card.

Wahoooo that almost to good to be true. Keep your fingers crossed!

Found this on another thread.
 
Found this on another thread.
Sounds too good to be true when you add in the $200 gift card. But that's my opinion and I've been wrong before.

I can tell you for a fact though that Disney's numbers are down a lot for 2009. Our Disney rep for the area has told us that he hasn't seen the numbers because "they are still updating". His response to that was "they've been updating them since the last month the numbers were down. I don't think they want to tell us how bad it really is."
 
Well, giving you a 7 day MYW base ticket for the price of a 4 day isn't much of a price break because the price difference isn't that much to begin with. 7 hotel nights for the price of 4 is a rockin' discount IF you can figure out how to stay for 7 nights during those dates. The gift card makes it even better. We could go for a week in June but by the time we paid airfare it would be eating into our money for the August trip, so it's not worth it. I would LOVE to be able to go in January but 4-5 nights would be the absolute max so we wouldn't save any money! :headache:
 
Adding to that rumor... when someone asked about it, a CM said it's "juicier than that", and Mary isn't denying it.


ETA: most people assume it will be the same 4/3 for dining as well.

I think we're going to just add a week to our stay, essentially. I'm not positive though, becuase we have SUCH good airfare right now (<$400 total for all of us!) (which would obviously go out the window with change fees, etc). We'd just switch resorts if the deal were good enough, but our DVC points would be lost. We have to use at least 82 of them since it's too late to bank them.
 
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