Easy Spice-y Pumpkin Cake

Cooler weather makes me want to run go turn on the oven and bake something wonderful.  Something that will scent the house like Fall...and Thanksgiving...something like this:

Easy Spice-y Pumpkin Cake

1 c. white sugar

1/2 c. water

1/2 can pumpkin puree

1/4 butter, melted and cooled (1/2 a stick)

1 egg

2 t. pumpkin pie spice

1/2 t. salt

1 1/2 c. flour

1 t. baking soda

1 tub buttercream frosting (or make your own!)

1/2 c. walnuts (with some extra pumpkin pie spice and a little dab of butter)

Heat the oven to 325.  Spray an 8x8 glass cake pan with Pam. Mix the first 6 ingredients.  Stir salt and baking soda into flour, then stir into wet ingredients.  Bake for 40 minutes or until cake springs back when pressed in the middle.  Cool. 

Meanwhile, toast the walnuts:  I crushed mine up a bit, added to a skillet with a sprinkle of spice and a little dab of butter.  Watch it carefully and stir it constantly over low to med heat to toast the nuts.  Cool. 

Frosting from a tub - I cheated today and it worked out beautifully!  I stored the leftover in the freezer.  After frosting it, scatter the nuts on top, perk a pot of cinnamon coffee and serve!

 Don't mind if I do.

Gina

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Boys primp, too

I remember primping for formal dances in high school.  It usually started shortly after I arrived home from school, and continued until about 10 minutes before my date arrived.  I never realized before - 

boys primp, too!

  

Oh, my!  And they like to mug for the camera, looking pretty handsome...

I think Miss A and Scout make a very attractive couple, no?

Wait!  I need to get a pic of you two together!

Or, maybe not...

All that primping and they are ready to party!

Circling the drain

Lately it seems my little family has been dealt one little tragedy after another.   Mostly small.  But really, it's the small tragedies that will get you down.

Pictured is Bubbie, on the bathroom floor, covered by his favorite quilt, toughing out a nasty stomach virus.  It has wound it's way around our group:  first, me on Sunday; then Scout on Tuesday into Wednesday, now Bubbie.  Who will it strike next?  Hopefully it will skip Firstborn who began his new job on Monday.  This bathroom is quarantined and will be scrubbed down with bleach as soon as Bubbie's fever breaks.  And I am praying for healthier days!

Gina