12 Days of Frugal Gifts: Baked Goods

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These recipes for holiday treats come to us courtesy of our friend, Becky R. Her house is always filled with the smell of something delicious!

PUMPKIN BREAD

3 cups sugar

1 cup cooking oil

3 eggs

15 ounce canned pumpkin

3 cups flour 3 tablespoons pumpkin pie spices

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Mix sugar, oil, eggs and pumpkin, then add combined dry ingredients in two batches. 

Bake at 350 until knife inserted into middle comes out clean. I used 15 mini loaf pans. 

PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE

Place 5 cups sugar, 1 stick butter, 1 large can evaporated milk and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a dutch oven and heat at medium high. Stir to mix. At the first sign of a boil, set timer for 15 minutes and stir occasionally. While sugar mixture is cooking, prepare a jelly roll pan or similar size dish by coating with butter and set aside. Also, Spray a large bowl with cooking oil spray then empty out an 18 ounce jar of peanut butter and 14 ounces of marshmallow cream into the bowl so it's easier to add to the sugar mixture when ready. When 15 minutes is up, pour peanut butter and marshmallow cream into hot sugar mixture and mix quickly, stir to mix completely but do it quickly, then pour out into buttered pan. Spread and let cool completely before cutting into small squares. 


Bonus! Here is a recipe for baked ornaments. Of course, after they are decorated with the glue and glitter, they are inedible, but a fun project nonetheless.

CINNAMON/APPLESAUCE ORNAMENTS

4.12 ounces cinnamon

3/4 cup applesauce

Mix together and roll out to 1/4 inch thickness

cut out with cookie cutters and place on foil to dry for 24 hours or in a 200 degree oven for 2 hours, turning occasionally to dry evenly.

Decorate with glue and glitter or other paint.