Happy Thanksgiving Day to all my Canadian Family and Friends!!!

Well, today was not a turkey dinner for me, so to honor Thanksgiving, I tried a new recipe.  Let's just say - my hubby has a new love in his life! - LOL  I was so pleased that he liked them so much.  As I was finishing them up, he came out to the kitchen saying, "Must not have more, smack hand!  Must not have more, smack hand!"  He cannot wait until he can have more I guess.

Since my hubby has stomach trouble, too cinnamon bothers him.  So, we kept the bit of cinnamon in the recipe, and then he preferred to have them rolled just in the sugar.  And I have to admit - they look more like little donuts than with the cinnamon sugar. But all three ways are good - plain, cinnamon sugar, or just sugared.

This recipe I found on Pinterest through Gooseberry Patch.  And this recipe is accredited to this blogger...Domestically Speaking...here is her link.  http://www.domestically-speaking.com/2011/09/countdown-to-autumn-party-pumpkin.html

Enjoy!!!

Pumpkin Poppers

Popper:

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon allspice  ( I didn't have any so just rounded the cloves a little)
1/8 teaspoons ground cloves
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 pumpkin (fresh or canned, just not pumpkin pie filling)
1/2 cup low-fat milk (Had no milk, so I used slightly diluted canned evaporated milk)

For Coating:
1 stick of unsalted butter, melted
2/3 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons cinnamon

Preheat your oven to 350 and spray your muffin pans.

Combine all the dry ingredients in one bowl and whisk till combined.

In another bowl, mix together the oil, brown sugar, egg, vanilla, pumpkin and milk.

Pour the dry ingredients into the wet and mix till it’s just combined (you don’t want to over mix).

Fill your mini tins till almost full.

Bake for 10-12 minutes.

While they’re baking, melt your butter and in a small bowl combine your sugar and cinnamon.

Let the poppers cool for a few minutes before rolling them around in the melted butter and then plunging them into their cinnamon sugar bath.

Now for some photos of mine!!! :D

 One batch all mixed.  I had enough pumpkin to make a double batch.

Batter in the mini-muffin tin.  I got 3 tins from the two batches.

 Freah out of the oven!!

 Looking yummy already and the house is smelling wonderful!!

 Three kinds, sugar coated, plain, and cinnamon sugar coated.

 Sugar coated up close...mmmmmmmmmmm....

 Cinnamon sugar coated up close...mmmmmmmmmmmmm....

Plain up close...ok, they look a little smaller when they are plain....but look good!!!

Utoh, I hope they are all cool enough to put away now - hubby is out in the kitchen sneaking them again - lol...Off to recue them!!!