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Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Filling

Posted in Cake, Desserts, Entertaining Ideas, Recipes, tagged , , , , , on October 12, 2012| 7 Comments »

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I have been on a complete and total pumpkin kick lately. My taste buds are fairly obsessed with thoughts of pumpkin treats.

The other day I needed to make a dessert to take to a gathering and wanted to make a bundt cake (because they are so easy and always so moist and good). Looking for some recipes, I ended up taking the best of three and combining them into a cream-cheese filled pumpkin spice bundt cake. Boy, was that a tasty decision!

This cake comes together quickly and easily and is so, so yummy!

Ingredients

Mix the batter.

Spoon half into a greased bundt pan.

Mix the filling.

Spoon on top of batter in pan. Then top with the remaining batter.
Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes or until top of the cake bounces bake when you poke it with your finger.

Let cool then remove from pan and invert on a serving platter.

Look at that delicious cream cheese filling!

Are your taste buds dancing in excitement! Enjoy!

Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake

1 pkg. spice cake mix
1 sm. can pumpkin
1 sm. pkg. instant cheesecake pudding
1/2 c. oil
3 eggs
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. water

Filling

1  pkg. cream cheese, softened

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla

1/2 cup sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a bundt cake pan.

In a large mixing bowl combine cake mix, oil, eggs, pudding, pumpkin, water and cinnamon. Beat on low speed until ingredients are moist then on medium speed until well blended.

Pour half the batter into the bundt pan.

In a mixing bowl, combine cream cheese, egg, sugar and vanilla. Beat until smooth and creamy. Pour on top of cake batter in pan.

Top with remaining cake batter and bake about 45 minutes until top of cake bounces back to your touch and edges begin to pull away from the pan.

Let cool then invert onto a serving platter.

To serve, you can dust with powdered sugar, drizzle on a caramel sauce or add a dollop of cinnamon laced whipped cream. Or you can be a freak like me and add a drizzle of chocolate followed by whipped cream!

She Who Is Currently Obsessed with Pumpkin

 

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The Autumn Fairies

Posted in Captain Cavedweller, Entertaining at Home, Entertaining Ideas, Home and Garden, Home Decor, tagged , , , , , on October 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »

When Captain Cavedweller and I got back from a week’s vacation last Friday evening, it was so fun to walk in the door and have fall greet us with warmth and cheer.

CC is convinced magic fairies came in, cleaned the house and decorated for fall while we were gone.  Me, not so much. I sort of remember spending 106 of the 24 hours before we left the house frantically cleaning and tossing decorations around.

But it was fun to came home to a festive home that looked and smelled like autumn.

I thought I’d share some of my favorite decorations today. They make me smile and warm my heart and cause me to want to never leave my house. Except maybe to get more chocolate. And pumpkin.

How could you not smile at this face?

Captain Cavedweller’s grandma gave me this print years ago. I don’t know why, but it makes me think of fall and my dad. I’m pretty sure those boys are up to no good and I wonder if that is how my dad and his cousin Willie looked when they were plotting their next adventure.

Some of my favorite fall dishes. The red vases toward the bottom were a gift CC’s grandparents received for their wedding back in 1949!

The guest room even has a fall-themed bedspread that yours truly made back when she had a little more spare time than I do these days. I found a leaf pattern I liked, cut out leaves, stitched them onto blocks going every direction and then used a rose print (of course) fabric in fall colors to pull it together. The shams are made with fabric used for the leaves.

Love this cheerful little scarecrow print!

And I love this set of blocks that spell out Autumn. They are my newest fall decoration from someone who truly is a magic autumn fairy and is loved very much.

 

Happy Autumn entertaining!

She Who LOVES this Season!

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Book Giveaway!

Posted in Books, Entertaining at Home, tagged , , , on October 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »

I’m giving away a copy of The Coffee Girl over on my writing blog today. Hurry over there and post a comment for your chance to win!

Book Giveaway

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Event Ticket Invitations

Posted in Entertaining Ideas, tagged , , , , on September 26, 2012| Leave a Comment »

I was thumbing through a magazine the other day and noticed a fun idea for a party – event tickets as invitations.

Reading the fine print, I got online and went to the referred website, Plum Party, to check it out.

You’ve got to take a look at this.
Seriously!

You can order any sort of ticket, completely personalized for your event for everything from baby showers and bachelor parties to weddings and actual sporting events.

Due to the fact I’m married to a die-hard football fall, I couldn’t help but think how fun it would be if a couple went with a football theme for a wedding and used the event tickets for invites. Of course, they would probably name their future children ESPN and Fox, too, but it really does seem like a memorable way to tie the knot.

She Who Wants to Plan an Event Ticket Party

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