3 Ingredient Pumpkin Swirl Muffins

Okay, these don't look the greatest, but they taste pretty good! You only need three ingredients, DATS IT. The recipe was found on Pinterest :) The thing is that the cake part is hard to tell when it's done, because the cake batter was light and airy so it almost seems cooked already! I think I baked mine for about 10-15 minutes. 

Ingredients: 
1 box Yellow Cake Mix
1 15 oz. can Pumpkin 
2 cups any kind of spread (Nutella, Cookie Butter, Biscoff, etc.) I used the Speculoos and Cocoa spread from Trader Joe's 

Just mix the cake mix with the pumpkin really well. Scoop into a muffin tin. Then put a teaspoon of your spread into the batter and swirl it in. Bake at 350 F for about 10-15 minutes for the mini muffins. If you bake it in a cake pan then it will probably be 35-40 minutes.

If you have faith as a mustard seed..nothing will be impossible for you. Matthew 17:20

We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith, and it may be so in the initial stages. But we do not earn anything through faith— faith brings us into the right relationship with God and gives Him His opportunity to work. Yet God frequently has to knock the bottom out of your experience as His saint to get you in direct contact with Himself. God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment of His blessings. The beginning of your life of faith was very narrow and intense, centered around a small amount of experience that had as much emotion as faith in it, and it was full of light and sweetness. Then God withdrew His conscious blessings to teach you to “walk by faith” (2 Corinthians 5:7). And you are worth much more to Him now than you were in your days of conscious delight with your thrilling testimony.

Faith by its very nature must be tested and tried. And the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God’s character must be proven as trustworthy in our own minds. Faith being worked out into reality must experience times of unbroken isolation. Never confuse the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life, because a great deal of what we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive. Faith, as the Bible teaches it, is faith in God coming against everything that contradicts Him— a faith that says, “I will remain true to God’s character whatever He may do.” The highest and the greatest expression of faith in the whole Bible is— “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” (Job 13:15).   [Utmost.org]

Pumpkin Speculoos and Cocoa Swirled Muffies

SPECULOOS AKA COOKIE BUTTER AND CHOCOLATE.. holy crap! Well anyways, these are super easy to make, and everything was bought at TJ's, how surprising right? 

Add in some greek yogurt for extra moist muffies! 

Pumpkin Pie Cookies

IT'S FALL! I walked into Trader Joe's (my fav store ever) the other day, and pumpkin everywhere! Seriously, the best. So, here's the first of many fall recipes that will be coming up on my blog. I've slowly started to give up on studying for midterms, hence why I'm baking. I need motivation! Anyways, you guys will benefit from this. This recipe is so stinkin' easy, and perfectly pumpkin-y. One thing, I just realized that I put too much whipping cream and not enough sugar when I made this. That's why it was harder for me to put the filling in, because it kept spilling out. So make sure you follow the recipe exactly. Enjoy!!! 

Yours should look a little thicker and more orange than mine. I used too much whipping cream! I adjusted it in the recipe though, so don't worry!

Ingredients

2 boxes of Betty Crocker Pie Crust dry mix or Refrigerated Pie crust (Roll out dough)
1 cup pumpkin puree (canned or homemade)
1 egg
¼ cup heavy cream
½ cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

optional: 1/4 sugar + 1/2 tsp cinnamon, egg wash

Method

Preheat your oven to 350° F
To prepare the filling, combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and beat on low speed until combined. Set aside.
Roll out dough into a large flat piece. If it's cold, it would be better and easier to work with.
Using a 3-inch round or pumpkin-shaped cutter, cut shapes out of the pie dough. Place these on the parchment paper, evenly spaced. Use a small paring knife to cut out eyes and a mouth.
Spoon about two teaspoons of filling into the center of each bottom pie crust. The more filling you get in there, the better!
Place each top crust on top of the pumpkin-topped bottom shapes. Press down the edges with something thin (I used a fork to make and seal the crimped edges).
Brush with an egg wash and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.
Bake for 10-14 minutes, or until the filling is set. Cool on a wire rack.

Adapted from Building Buttercream

Even youths shall faint and be weary,

    and young men shall fall exhausted;but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;

    they shall mount up with wings like eagles;

they shall run and not be weary;

    they shall walk and not faint. 

{Isaiah 40:30-31}