Easy Cupcakes!

Do you need an easy & quick cupcake recipe?

Soda Pop Cupcakes
1 box of Betty Crocker White Cake mix (or maybe yellow would work too)
12 ounces of a carbonated beverage (Fanta Orange, Cream Soda, Sprite, Big Red, Etc...)

Mix cake mix with soda pop with a mixer for about 3 minutes.

Spoon into cupcake liners and bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes - until toothpick/knife comes out clean.  Cool for at least 30 minutes and ice the cupcakes!

So easy and is really good!

Perhaps we could keep these ingredients on hand?

This batch made 17 cupcakes - is that a Baker's Dozen & 1/2?

Finished Cupcakes!

Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours.

Yours, Lord, is the kingdom;

you are exalted as head over all.

~ I Chronicles 29:11

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins

Perfect fall recipe - or one anytime you feel like eating pumpkin & chocolate!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins

1 2/3 cup flour (I used Pamela's GF pancake & baking mix)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 T pumpkin pie spice
1/2 T cinnamon
1tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt

2 eggs
1 cup pumpkin (fresh or canned)
1/2 melted butter
1 cup chocolate chips (I used 1/2 semi & 1/2 milk chocolate chips)

Mix the dry ingredients.  Mix the butter, pumpkin & eggs.  Add to the dry then stir in chocolate chips. Mix well and fill muffin tin and bake at 350 degrees.   Mine bake for about 15 minutes in the Pampered Chef muffin pan.  Just bake until golden brown!

I use a Pampered Chef muffin pan and I do not use cupcake liners.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffin - perfect for a fall breakfast day!

Ingredients for the muffins

Have you cooked a fresh pumpkin?  It is really easy.  I recently purchased a couple of pumpkin squash.  To bake - you simply cut them in half, scoop out the seeds, and bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.  Then you have fresh pumpkin for your muffins and maybe a pie too!

Cooked fresh pumpkin

The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.  He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them.

Psalm 145:18-19