Pumpkin awesomeness!

Hello!

So I made pumpkin bread and pumpkin jam and pumpkin ice cream!

The jam and bread came out fucking delicious! And the whole apartment smelled like Christmas the entire day!

Will definitely be making the bread again, even Sara loved it and she isn't that big of a fan of pumpkin as I am...

How to puree:

First, peel, deseed and dice the pumpkin and put into oven for about 20-30 minutes on 225 degrees celsius.

Put into blender and blend!

Ready to store or use! Put into fridge and use later if you want to!

Bread:

2 mushed bananas

1. 1/3 cup of pumpkin puree (just shove pumpkin into the oven on 230 degrees and puree when soft)

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

2-3 teaspoons pumpkin spice

A bit of sugar (can skip this, I probably will next time)

1 tablespoon of honey

1 ½ cup of dinkel flour

1 cup all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon of oil

and 2 eggs!

(Can add raisins or some nuts if you want, Sara does not like raisins in her bread though so I skipped it)

Instructions:

Set oven to 175 degrees celsius.

Combine flour, baking powder and soda, salt, spice and raisins if you are using them!

Mix pumpkin, banana, egg, oil and sugar/honey in a separate bowl.

Then mix the two together to get a nice even paste and chuck it into the bread pan and bake in the oven for about 60-75 minutes. (Might take longer or shorter depending on the oven)

Be warned! It will smell wonderful and you will want to eat the whole thing instantly!

Finished Product:

Pumpkin jam!

 As with the puree. Peel, deseed and dice the pumpkin.

I used about 2,5 kgs of pumpkin and 

175 grams of sugar

2½ teaspoons of pumpkin spice.

Mix sugar and spice.

Take a slow cooker or a big pot with lid.

Put oven at 100 degrees.

Layer pumpkin at the bottom, cover with sugar, then pumpkin, then sugar and so on until all ingredients are in the pan.

Put into oven with lid (or turn on the slow cooker on low setting)

Let it go in the oven/cooker for 6 hours and stir occasionally. It's done when it looks like this: 

 Put into jars you have sterilized with warm water and turn upside down to get rid of as much air as possible.

They where delicious! 

Perfect for sandwiches, porridge, pancakes or whatever else you can think off?

Pumpkin ice cream

Made this sunday and I will try it next week but I took about:

1/3 of a can of sweetened condensed milk

1½ dl of heavy cream

3 tablespoons pumpkin puree

1 teaspoon pumpkin spice.

Whip the cream until it becomes quite firm. Not butter though! :)

Mix the condensed milk with spice and milk until thoroughly blended.

Then fold the mixture into the cream. The mixture should be airy and fluffy!

Put into freezer for about 1 day and then enjoy!

Tried this with peanut butter and peanut butter cups this weekend as well and me and Sara finished it will post that recipe later. 

You can really make wonderful combinations of flavor without having a ice cream maker and there are not a lot of additives here and you can mix as you wish!

Pumpkin madness!

//Stay full my friends I gotta buy more pumpkin before it's to late!