On a Whim......Funnel Cake!

I had some 'free' time yesterday after the kids got home from school. Instead of working on some things for Dakoda's Birthday party what do I do??

Decide to make Funnel Cakes of course!!!

I cannot even remember what gave me the idea to do this?!?! I don't know if it was the LaLa Loopsy

commercial with the Ferris Wheel? or what? All I can say was it popped into my head and I was on a mission to find and make a Funnel Cake recipe.

I searched on a couple of my favorite sites and came up empty handed. So I immediately went to PW's site and did not come up empty handed!!

In turn she lead me to HeatherD's recipe Here!!

Pumpkin Pie Baby!!!

I have fresh pumpkin puree. Now what to do with it?

Oh, yeah! Make a pumpkin pie!!

pumpkin puree, eggs, sugar, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, milk,

evaporated milk, unbaked pie shell 

Here I combined the pumpkin and eggs

Just looking at this picture I can smell the cinammon, sugar and nutmeg.

evaporated milk

milk

mix everything well

and pour it into your perfect pie crust

a certain somebody (Sean!!!)

thought he could try and taste it before I got the picture take!!

So Yummy!! I couldn't even wait for the Cool Whip!!

Recipe for My Favorite Pumpkin Pie

4 eggs

2 cups pumpkin

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp. nutmeg

1 1/3 cup milk

1 (13 oz) can evaporated milk

2 (9 inch) unbaked pastry shells

Combine eggs and pumpkin. Blend sugars, salt and spices. Add milk and mix well.

Pour into pastry shells. Bake at 375* F for 50 to 60 minutes or until knife inserted halfway

 between center and outer edge comes out clean. Cool. Serve with Cool Whip.

*This recipe can be found in the Trinity Lutheran Church, Freistatt, Missouri Cook book.

It was originally submitted by Lincoln Voskamp.