#glhf!!!

[majorbaby]

adapted from here. if tumblr lets me, tagging everyone who interacted with this post beneath the cut so you all see it. 

i like recipe because because, but for the eggs, the ingredients are all pantry stuff that i always have around. it’s also super easy, and autumn-y and flexible. And of course, one bowl and if you want, just one main utensil, so limited dishes to do afterward. 

it calls for brown sugar only, because it’s slightly less sweet, which is how i prefer my desserts, but i included some possible mods in the recipe if you want it sweeter.

after the recipe i blabbed on about tips/tricks etc, feel free to ignore that part.

Ingredients

one 15-ounce can pumpkin puree, or roughly two scant cups (PURE pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling. I can only get the 796 ml cans where I live, which is about 28 ounces so I double everything else in this recipe most of the time - it has a little less pumpkin than it should, but it’s fine!)

¾ cup (128 g) light brown sugar (dark brown is fine. i wouldn’t use all white, but if you want it sweeter, do 2 parts brown, 1 part white, so ½ cup brown sugar, ¼ cup white)

½ cup (96 g or 3.39 oz) vegetable oil

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon (4.34 g) vanilla extract 

1 tablespoon (8 g) “pumpkin pie spice” (I’m allergic to cinnamon so I use a mix of allspice and nutmeg instead, you could also totally leave this out)

1 teaspoon (6 g) baking soda (NOT baking powder and please don’t use more or less. this is the only ingredient you need to be careful about)

½ teaspoon (3 g) salt

1 ½ cups (180 g) flour 

½ cup (80 g) chocolate chips (or whatever mixins you want, roasted walnuts or pecans are nice)

Method

Plop your pumpkin into the bowl, add the sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla extract and mix until well combined using a wooden spoon or a whisk. A spatula will work too, you may need to mix it a little longer until it’s well combined but you need a spatula for the next step too so if you’re trying to do less dishes, it works. 

Once it’s well combined, sprinkle your spices, baking soda and salt on top, mix well

Add your flour and fold it in with a spatula just until well combined. Once it’s well combined, add your chocolate chips/nuts etc. 

Decide what you’re making. If you have liners, muffins are great. If you want a loaf, I suggest lining your pan with parchment paper - the person in the video uses binder clips to keep the sides of the paper from touching the batter but personally I’ve never needed to do that, just oil the pan and scrunch your paper down, it’ll be fine. 

Sprinkle more chocolate chips on top if you like. 

Bake at 375 degrees F for 20 minutes on the middle rack if you’re doing muffins. Do a toothpick test to see if they’re done and add 2 min baking time if not. If you’re doing a loaf it will take longer to bake. Around 40 minutes, insert a fruit knife or a dry spaghetti to check for doneness. It’s safer to bake a little longer if you’re not sure - there is so much moisture in this recipe, you don’t really run the risk of drying it out too much. 

Some anecdotes/advice that might interest you if you’re a novice baker

bAkInG iS a ScIeNcE we’re not making macaron here (overrated anyway, choux au craquelin > macaron) just throw it in the bowl, mix, bake, put some pumpkin seeds on top and it’ll be okay!!!

You’ll notice that all the ingredients are in the order, separated with a linebreak to indicate where you should be mixing as you’re adding stuff to the bowl, so just work your way down the list and you can’t go wrong

I find loaves freeze better than muffins, try to freeze the whole thing rather than slices but if you are slicing it, cut up some parchment paper to slip between the slices before you freeze, or freeze individual slices in baggies 

Folding is the hardest part of this recipe because folding can take some practice to learn to do properly. You need to be patient and let the mix come together with smaller movements. I linked the most neutral video I could find, but be careful when looking for recipes that teach you how to fold - the technique can vary based on on what you’re folding into what but for this recipe, you just need the basic motion, you don’t have to worry too much about incorporating air, which is a secondary purpose of folding in addition to preventing air loss in your mixture

It’s not the end of the world if you overmix. The final result will be a bit more dense if you’re making a loaf but you can barely tell the difference if you’re making muffins. Heat it up in the microwave for a few minutes and it’ll taste great regardless. I’ve made this recipe on a day where I lacked any kind of patience and I’m pretty sure I just whipped a spoon around the bowl and dumped everything into a loaf pan and it was fine. 

My number one baking hack is to get a kitchen scale. If you simply Cannot Be Bothered with clean up, a baking scale is your number one friend because you no longer have to wash a bunch of measuring cups, which are a nightmare to shove into ingredient containers anyway. Put your bowl on the scale and dump your ingredients in, resetting the scale to zero using the tare button and just watch how much faster it is to make anything. It’s also way easier to double or halve recipes when you have a number to divide/multiple rather than trying to halve 1 ¾ cups of something. Also it’s more accurate but you don’t need to be super accurate for this recipe yay :3 

tagging: @leonardcohenofficial @mummelthecryptid @discocaptain @marley-manson @autistic-puffin @daydreams-and-tea @shutupmenken @carbuckety @rdng1230 @rescue-ram @bornforastorm @fr0ggi3b0i @orangefarmcat

would any of you be interested in my one bowl, low-med effort, zero pre-prep (who can remember to take butter out of the fridge ahead of time/afford to buy butter in this economy) pumpkin bread recipe

[volcanocraft]

i aint even turning on anon for this if u draw manager cub i'll sign over 1/4th of my soul to you

bring home the gold 🥇

[realpokemon]

How do I get my blaziken to use his actual name? I called him bastard, asshole, babywavy and he answers to it but when I called him "Mike" he looked at me like I killed his father

i hate to be the one to tell you this but "mike" is noooot his name anymore

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

apotrope

[junglejim4322]

as a bi person, do you see yourself with a specific gendered partner on the long run? do you WANT long term partnership?

i’m a bi woman but i struggle to keep long term partnerships with men so now i’m kinda envisioning a woman in my future

I’m not interested in a long term relationship at all right now but honestly if I did have one like an actual bisexual throuple would be ideal. I think a lot of people are scared to admit this but im #brave so I’ll say I get antsy and unsatisfied when I’m with just one gender for too long. However if I were to be monogamous it would have to be with a man and not even necessarily because of a gender preference but I have a massive preference in gendered dynamics and gay = epic, straight = abysmal (aside from the fact other people treat you really niceys). Idk all this shit has complexities and whatnot and im unafraid to admit [chaka khan voice] im every stereotype!!!! < plot of interview with the vampire this is the original scripts leaked draft btw

[play-my-game]

[invinciblerodent]

I just learned today, after a good 700 hours in-game, that it's possible for Aradin and his crew to attack you at your camp in act 3 (through someone saying, paraphrased, that if you enjoy him as a character you must not have played act 3), and I'm honestly so bloody into this possibility now.

Like, sure, on one hand that's textbook fantasy thug behavior and I like that he has the chutzpah to do it, but also... yeah, go on and tell the person you learned was hired to capture the Nightsong maybe three hours into the game, about how the Nightsong is chilling at your camp. Truly, the man who was offered enough money for this contract to have him set for life, and who'd abandon an archdruid and some of his own crew because they got attacked can be trusted with that information.

I'm sure nothing can go wrong if you tell him, he's such an absolutely 100% trustworthy individual. Surely this man has not done anything nefarious or underhanded (such as attacking a person at their camp) in his life. You should also give him a copy of the key to your room at the Elfsong in case he wants to drop by later for tea and crumpets...??????

I know this person likely meant that this is a reason one shouldn't like him, but if anything, I honestly enjoy his character like three times more, now that I know this can happen. He's a greedy, cutthroat, an kind of stupid man who is only an adventurer because his daddy was one, and all he wants is money enough to retire.

He's barely- to moderately hinged. I'm obsessed with him now.

[yhrite]

This new climbing centre I’ve started going to has an unknown skeletal creature climbing one of the walls and no sign or context anywhere to be found to explain why…….

[gunk-ice-tea]

Little something i did for twitter, might as well post it here

[gloamvonhrym]

imagine you’re trying to have a diplomatic meeting with the new president of the laguz nations, the nations with which your country has had a rocky history, to whom your country probably has a lot of things to apologize for, but you’ve heard that while he looks scary he’s actually a bit of a blunt instrument in terms of political philosophy and one-on-one interactions, and you figure he’ll be fairly easy to manipulate as long as you can talk circles around him and avoid giving him a reason to strangle you, and then you walk into the room and tibarn is there with Reyson The Crazed Empath Of Serenes on his lap like knifecat.png and you know immediately that if anything remotely duplicitous leaves your lips you are not getting out of that room without some radical alterations to your life and possibly your face. lethal duo once synergy is achieved. get their ass

[dumplingtrait]

naya jones // for @trippisimmies's sims next top model

✧ early twenties, virgo, demisexual ✧ aspiration: world-famous celebrity ✧ traits: ambitious, art lover, unflirty

late posting but finally finished her !! haven't had a chance to give her a backstory but i had a blast making her and i'm super excited for sntm !!

[ugly-anarchist]

That's it, I'm done. It's over. I'm not reblogging that post again. I'm sick of looking at it and I bet you are too. If you wanna keep at it then be my guest just don't harass anyone, alright?

[realpokemon]

hey uhmm

i fell in a cave and there are lots of hungry looking pokemon in here

i have one bar of data and i have no escape ropes what should i do

also i think theres a dead body over there :(

well. if there's a dead body, they can't be THAT hungry.

why are you asking me and not calling a ranger association

[rainydaygt]

sfw only, no v0r3, be nice!!!

[happidragon]

@manebioniclegali pinged me to share 10 songs i really like by 10 different artists and then tag 10 new people to do the same. the post was 4 and a half miles long so welcome to the new post. listed in no particular order.

Concertina Ballerina by Alternative Radio

Munchausen by Proxy by Major Parkinson

FIGURE IN THE BACKGROUND by SNAKE POOL

1015 by glass beach

100punk by Shutups

Maybe by Flower Face

Cuchito by Kiltro

Musician by Porter Robinson

GRAVITY WEAPON by Ada Rook

American Gothic by IRONTOM

I wasn't going to tag anyone but actually. i have a bunch of mutuals who i never talk to. Hi mutuals I never talk to. i would actually love to know what music you lovely freaks enjoy. so

@urbanknightart @poltergeistwife @trebhum @wurmwizzard @beintheforest @doorbel-draws @vanderslootassgiraffe @strategypillar

no pressure to do any of this, o course