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2010 will be filled with lots of great recipes, some my own and some from great books and other from foodtv people that I just love.

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Pumpkin Bars

Ingredients:

4 Eggs
1 2/3 Cups sugar
1 Cup Vegetable Oil
15 oz can Pumpkin
2 Cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
Pinch freshly grated nutmeg (optional)

Icing:

8 oz package cream cheese
1/2 Cup butter, softened
2 Cups confectioners' sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 350.

Using an electric mixer at medium speed, combine eggs, sugar, oil and pumpkin until light and fluffy. Add baking powder, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and nutmeg (if adding) and flour to mixture at a low speed until compeletly mixed.
Spread batter into a greased 13 X 10 baking pan. Bake for 30 minutes. Let cool completely before adding icing. Cut into bars.

Make Icing: combine the cream cheese and butter in mixes on medium speed until smooth. Add the confectioners sugar at low speed until mixed then add vanilla.

Spread on cooled pumpkin bars.

This is not my recipe it's Paula Deen's with the exception of the nutmeg, I added this myself.  Enjoy with some great apple cider or mulled hot cider.


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Blueberry Muffins

Here's my favorite Blueberry Muffin recipe; hope you like it!

1 3/4 cups flour
**1/2 cup sugar
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cup fresh blueberries or unthawed frozen blueberries
3/4 cup milk + 3 TBS of milk
1 egg
1/3 cup melted butter

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder,and salt. Stir in blueberries gently. Add milk, egg and butter. Mix just until all the dry ingredients are moistened. The batter will be slightly lumpy. Do not over beat the batter and stir gently as to not mash the blueberries.

Spoon blueberry batter mis into twelve 2 1/2 inch greased muffin cups.

Bake at 400 for 25 minutes or until the tops are golden brown.

**I have also used splenda in place of sugar and it tasted great. Also, my son did not even know that I switched the sweetener.

Enjoy and let me know what you think.


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Barb's Note

Hello everyone,

Just dropping a note about this great cooking/food blog. I want you to know that I love to cook and bake and have also did my share of canning and I love it!! So stay tuned for some great recipes, how to and great ideas.

Hope you all have a Happy New Year and I'll see you in the "Barb Sibbing's Kitchen"


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