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large family food ideas desserts chocolate chip pumpkin muffins

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large family food ideas for desserts chocolate chip pumpkin muffins….

When we do a baking day around our home, we do it big.  We usually have 2-3 things going and we bake a lot of that item and then freeze part of it.  Chocolate chip pumpkin muffins are one of our families favorite snacks.

Scroll to the bottom for normal serving sized versions:)

  • 9 -8 oz cans of pumpkin
  • 18 eggs
  • 4 1/2 c coconut oil
  • 5 c brown sugar
  • 5 c white sugar—-if i had raw sugar on hand I would just use 10 c total of raw sugar
  • 12-14 c white whole wheat flour
  • 12 tsp baking powder
  • 9 tsp baking soda
  • 6 tsp salt
  • 6 tsp each cinnamon and nutmeg
  • 3 c mini chocolate chip
  • Makes about 84 muffins depending upon how full you fill your cups

 

To make your muffins…….

In a very large mixing bowl……add your pumpkin

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Crack all 18 eggs into the bowl…..hope you have some egg laying hens add your coconut oil as well
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With a beater, mix on low until thoroughly combined.  Takes about 5 minutes to ensure proper mixing of this big bowl.Image00006 We then add all of our dry ingredients, we start with all of the little ones, like baking powder, salt, etc Image00009 We then add our flour, start with 12 cups first and add more as needed.  You want to mix this very well with a mixer.  You can mix all of the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl, but I don’t usually have the extra time it takes to do that and would rather do it all in one big bowl.

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After you have done a good job mixing it quite thoroughly, time to add your mini chocolate chips.  If I don’t have the mini ones on hand, I use regular chocolate chips, they all taste the same—delicious.Image00011

Keep on mixing……..to make sure you have got all of those little chips combined.  Nothing worse than getting the muffin that got “jipped” some chocolate chips!Image00012

We use paper liners in our muffin tin for four reasons:

  1. I don’t like to have to clean out muffin tins—it is a job that I detest
  2. makes it easier to stack them on a platter to serve –because we can no longer have a single layer, it is usually a stacked pyramid!
  3. they pop out of the pan very easily
  4. it is easier to feed to my little ones, actually it is neater, with all of those gooey chocolate chips, we need a part of the muffin that is “clean”

Bake at 350 for 30-40 until muffins are done–insert a toothpick
Image00013I used to have all of my “baked goods” sprawled out over my dining room table and I just sat back and looked in amazement, before I put them into the freezer.  But nowadays I have to package them up and put them away before they disappear.  Too many little ones that think this is one of those restaurants with an all you can eat  buffet!

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Now what if you don’t have a large family but you still want to make these fantastic muffins??  Well you could get out your calculator and start dividing and deducting…..and…..oh never mind, here is the recipe that started it all.  At one time in our marriage I used to make this amount and it was enough for all of us.  Those days are long gone……..

chocolate chip muffins for “small families”

  • 3 eggs, well beaten
  • 3/4 c oil
  • 2 1/4 c sugar
  • 2 1/4 c canned pumpkin
  • BEAT THE ABOVE TOGETHER
  • 2 1/2 c flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg
  • SIFT TOGETHER THE DRY INGREDIENTS AND THEN BLEND IN
  • add 1 pkg chocolate chips to mixture

Bake 350 for 30-40 minutes until done

large family food ideas…desserts…pumpkin pie

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Large family food ideas desserts pumpkin pie….

I have found that with having a large family most everything that we do is different than the average family.  That includes dessert making.  I used to love making pies for our family but by the time I had made enough for our large family I would have 3 pies stacked one on top of the other in the refrigerator and usually that would result in someone accidentally knocking over the pies and making a mess in an already overcrowded refrigerator.

There had to be another way ……

I came up with making our pies in a jelly roll pan.  It was easier to make one large crust instead of individual round ones, and cutting and serving was way more convenient.

I use the same ingredients that I would for my traditional  pies but with an extra ingredient added to the crust to give it a little more structure.

Large family Pumpkin pie squares

crust

  • 1 c flour
  • 1 c oatmeal
  • 1/2 c brown sugar
  • 1/2 c butter

pie

  • 1 1/2 c sugar
  • 4 large eggs
  • 2- 15 oz cans pumpkin
  • 2- 12 oz cans evaporated milk
  • 2 t cinnamon
  • 1 t salt
  • 1 t nutmeg

Place all of your crust ingredients into your food processor

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Turn your food processor on “dough” setting and pulse for a few minutes until crust is combinedImage00018

When crust is combined, pat your crust in a baking pan. I use a glass 9×13 pan.   Bake for 15 minutes in a 350 oven.

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Place all of your pie ingredients into a large mixing bowl

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Mix all of your pie ingredients on low for 2 minutes until thoroughly combinedImage00022

After thoroughly combined, pour mixture over crust.


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Bake in 350 oven for 45 min or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean

Image00028When cool, place pie in refrigerator and when chilled, cut and serve your pumpkin pie.


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