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Stir together and bring to a boil in a small saucepan and pour over cake while hot.

Pumpkin Rolls

Submitted by Nancy Farris

This is a staple at our office food days. It’s good any way: warm, cold, or room temperature. There are never any leftovers!

1 8-oz. pkg. refrigerated crescent rolls
1 8-oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 cup pumpkin

½ cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
¼ cup butter
¼ cup cinnamon sugar (¼ cup sugar mixed with 1 tsp. cinnamon)

Unroll crescent rolls and put half in the bottom of an 8 x 8-inch pan. Flatten and press any seams together.

Mix together cream cheese, pumpkin, ½ sugar, vanilla, and pumpkin pie spice by hand or with hand mixer. Spread over the crescent roll. Place the remaining half of the crescent roll on top of the cream cheese mixture.

Melt the butter and pour over the top. Sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar mixture.

Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Pumpkin Custard Crunch

Submitted by Robin Coxon

I hope you find these as enjoyable as my family does.

29-oz. can pumpkin

3 eggs, beaten

2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

1 tsp. cinnamon

14-oz. can sweetened condensed milk

1 cup milk

2 tsp. vanilla extract

Crunch Topping:

Stir together oats, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and pecans. Add melted butter, toss to mix. Set aside.

3 cups quick cooking oats, uncooked

1 cup brown sugar, packed

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 cup pecans, crushed

1 cup butter, melted

Mix pumpkin, eggs, and spices well; stir in milks and vanilla. Pour into a greased 9 x 13-inch baking pan. Spoon crunch topping over pumpkin mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 45–60 minutes, until knife tip comes out clean. Watch carefully so topping doesn’t burn. Serve warm.

Tasty topped with whipped topping or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Aunt Lena’s Apple Crunch

Submitted by Connie Correll

Peel, core, and slice about 5 good-sized apples into a large bowl; add ¾ cup sugar, 1 tsp. cinnamon, toss together until the apples are well coated. Place in a 9 x 9 baking dish and dot with 1 tbs. real butter.

Crunchy topping:

Mix together with a fork until these ingredients make a crumble mixture: ½ cup flour, ½ cup sugar, 1 tsp. baking powder, 2 tbs. real butter, and 1 egg.

Spoon the topping on the apple mixture, bake at 350 degrees for 30–35 minutes.

Note: While most old farmhouses had McIntosh apple trees in their yards, I prefer to use a combination of Gala or Braeburn with Cortland. The macs tend to bake up pretty soft, where the Gala/Braeburn will cook tender but not mush.

This recipe will work well with peaches. You may even try it with other fruits. A little experimenting with the dry ingredients may be necessary. You will need to put the baking dish on a cookie sheet or such as peaches and berries will cook over the edge of the dish. Who wants to spend time cleaning the oven when you should be eating this yummy treat?

Books by Kathi Daley

Come for the murder, stay for the romance.

Zoe Donovan Cozy Mystery:

Halloween Hijinks

The Trouble With Turkeys

Christmas Crazy

Cupid’s Curse

Big Bunny Bump-off

Beach Blanket Barbie

Maui Madness

Derby Divas

Haunted Hamlet

Turkeys, Tuxes, and Tabbies

Christmas Cozy

Alaskan Alliance

Matrimony Meltdown

Soul Surrender

Heavenly Honeymoon

Hopscotch Homicide

Ghostly Graveyard

Santa Sleuth

Shamrock Shenanigans

Kitten Kaboodle

Costume Catastrophe

Whales and Tails Cozy Mystery:

Romeow and Juliet

The Mad Catter

Grimm’s Furry Tail

Much Ado About Felines

Legend of Tabby Hollow

Cat of Christmas Past

A Tale of Two Tabbies

The Great Catsby

Count Catula –
September 2016

Cat of Christmas Present –
November 2016

Seacliff High Mystery:

The Secret

The Curse

The Relic

The Conspiracy

The Grudge

Sand and Sea Hawaiian Mystery:

Murder at Dolphin Bay

Murder at Sunrise Beach

Murder at the Witching Hour –
September 2016

Road to Christmas Romance:

Road to Christmas Past

Kathi Daley lives with her husband, kids, grandkids, and Bernese mountain dogs in beautiful Lake Tahoe. When she isn’t writing, she likes to read (preferably at the beach or by the fire), cook (preferably something with chocolate or cheese), and garden (planting and planning, not weeding). She also enjoys spending time on the water when she’s not hiking, biking, or snowshoeing the miles of desolate trails surrounding her home.

Kathi uses the mountain setting in which she lives, along with the animals (wild and domestic) that share her home, as inspiration for her cozy mysteries.

Kathi is a top 100 mystery writer for Amazon and she won the 2014 award for both Best Cozy Mystery Author and Best Cozy Mystery Series.

She currently writes four series: Zoe Donovan Cozy Mysteries, Whales and Tails Island Mysteries, Sand and Sea Hawaiian Mysteries, and Seacliff High Teen Mysteries.

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