Tonight i used up the rest of my pumpkin puree

Well tonight i watched the GBBO Masterclass and decided to make something with the rest of my pumpkin puree that i done last night. I didn't want another roulade  (i didn't have enough pumpy left and also it was bloody messy!) so i took to t'internet and found a cupcake recipe :-)

Plain flour, bicarb and mixed spice combined with pumpy, egg, milk and a fair wee whack of sugar and i ended up with a no bad looking mixture!

Batter :)

I went to pop it into my cases them remembered i bought an ice cream scoop just for this very purpose :-D unfortunately, i overestimated the first cake and had to scoop half of it out again  (but i live and learn! !)

Ice cream scoopin :)

25 minutes in a 170° oven and wallah!

They wouldn't win a beauty contest, but well neither would I :)

There no bad eh? I've got the rest of my frosting left over from last night to use up so that'll get used up when they're cool!

I'm not counting my chickens yet, they might be mingin! But at least they're made :-)

Tonight i pureed my own pumpkin!

Right I'm doing this from my phone so i don't even know if i can post pics BUT tonight i found a method on the Pioneer Woman  to tell you how to puree your own pumpkin.  So i did. Try. 

This is what I'm aiming for...

I roasted it in chunks and then took the skin off. It was awfully watery, which it wasn't in her photo, but I seived it to get rid of the excess. Then i blitzed it in a food processor and drained it some more! Them i looked for something to make it with. 

My pumpkin.

Yesterday i found a Hummingbird bakery book at 2 for  £10 in WH Smith (i got Tom Kerridge too) and in there is a pumpkin roulade thing. 

So its in the oven just now. I'll update when it's out...

Ooh i also started making my Christmas limoncello so that's happily infusing in the cupboard!

Fingers crossed...

Limoncello stage one!

15 minutes later...

The cake's out the oven!  It's a bit pale!

To be fair, the other side looked a bit better!  Well, darker.

Cream cheese frosting...

Unfortunately I forgot that butter wrapper has metal in it, and I put it in the microwave to soften it a bit.  Oops.  

It was a lovely light show though :)

And all for..  Doo doo doo dooooooooo...

IT WORKED!!!!!

Look at all that lovely cakiness!!!

The view from above!

Unfortunately (I should probably get that word on auto-use, I can tell it's going to be used a lot lol) when I attempted to slice it, a lot of the filling squished out the end.  I never understood how people managed to make roulade neatly.  

Anyway, I just scooped up the frosting stuff and shoved it on top!!  It's bloody lovely :D  Even Andrew likes it, and that's saying something!!!

A slice!

An actual bake!!!!  I made that!!  From a book and I didn't even make any of it up!!!  WOOOOO!!!