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| yeah ummm i forgot to take a pic before i ate one... don't judge me... |
For the Eggnog Cream Cheese Swirl I used vanilla instead of rum for a total of 1tbsp + 1tsp of vanilla. And I didn't actually measure the nutmeg and cinnamon cuz I didn't feel like digging out the 1/8 tsp. 3/8 is roughly a half so I used the 1/2 and didn't quite fill it all the way. And 1/8 is a 'dash' or a 'pinch' or something right? So two shakes of cinnamon.
Now here's the fun part. The recipe calls for 1 1/3 cup pumpkin puree. I'd made mashed sw potatoes last week and there were still some left, so that's what I used. And since I didn't really use a recipe for that, this will never be 100% replicable, but that's ok. Replication is for wimps. Ok not at ALL, lol. ;)
But this is roughly how the sw potato dish went down:
3 sw potatoes (two were ginormous) diced (it was enough to all but fill my 4qt (I think) crock pot)
1 stick of butter
1/3(ish) cup of brown sugar
1-2 tsp cinnamon (honestly it was more like 'a few shakes' but I'm trying, lol)
Add all to crock, put on low for some hours... maybe...4? 5? After a few hours I went in w/ the paddle thing from my rice cooker and stirred, they started to break down but not all the way. Some time later I did it again... Eventually I turned it off then a while later it was time for dinner... Yes, as much as I love America's Test Kitchen, Alton Brown and the whole notion behind the science of why food works. I'm still all about proving it doesn't have to be an exact science... Don't judge me.
Ok, so in spite of how yummy they were, there were other meals between then and now and they weren't all gone. So into the muffins they go.
Sw Pot Puree
~1 1/3 cup leftover sw potatoes
~1/4 cup oj
needed to add some liquid for the blender. not a lot of milk left. wasn't sure yogurt would be thin enough. certainly didn't want to use something as utterly flavorless and blah as water. so oj won the prize. and you know i didn't measure it at all... it was just enough to make sure the blender could get going. and my blender's on crack.
Other than those li'l tweaks, the rest of the recipe & process are the same. And they are uber yummerlicious!! I think I might make a few more than 12 nxt time, just so they don't spill over as much... the slight variation in amt of batter could be due to any of the variations above, which may or may not happen the exact same way again, but still... and I'd try to do a better job 'filling' them. It says use a spoon to make a deep hole and fill it w/ filling. easier said than done... But again - tasty!!
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