I love miniature food. I also love cake. You can imagine my excitement when I was invited to join the Donsuemor Dessert a Day challenge. The folks at Donsuemor were kind enough to give me some French Almond Cakes to use in a recipe of my creation.
Since Dessert a Day is in October, I thought it was only fitting to use some fall ingredients in this recipe.
As soon as I saw these little cakes, the first thing that came to mind was pumpkin pie. I decided to take these mini yum yums and turn them into tiny pumpkin pies. Here’s how I did it.
Donsuemor French Almond {Pumpkin} Cakes
Ingredients:
- 1 can pumpkin puree
- Cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar
- Evaporated milk
- Paper baking cups
- Cupcake Pan
- Whipped cream
Directions:
Start by gently scooping out the top of the cakes, as shown below:
Then, with a knife, gently scrape some of the excess cake to create a little well for your pumpkin filling. {My baby LOVED eating the left over almond cake crumbles!}
Put each of the almond cakes into a paper baking cup. Prepare your pumpkin pie filling by following the directions on the pumpkin puree.
Using an ice cream scoop, fill each almond cake with the pumpkin pie filling.
Bake following the directions on the pumpkin puree, checking doneness using a toothpick. Once they’re cooled, you can either leave them in the baking cups or remove them.
I removed mine from the cups and served them with whipped cream and topped them with the remaining almond slices. The cake was super moist and full of almond goodness. The pumpkin filling was warm and reminded me of a crisp fall day. The almonds were a great texture contrast to the soft pumpkin filling.
They were nothing short of awesome!
Many thanks to Donsuemor for providing me with a free sample of their French Almond Cakes. The recipe and opinions are all mine.
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Twitter: ithoughtiknewma
September 4, 2011 at 11:05 am
Yum! This looks delicious!
I linked up because I actually have a Fall Recipe Sunday Surf today – with a linky – so come link up
Thanks for your linky!
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Twitter: BeautifulSpitUp
September 6, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Thanks for stopping by, Charise! I did add my link to your linky too.
Trust me, you must try these! My wife had to take them away from me before I ate them all!
Twitter: mytimeasmom
September 5, 2011 at 2:38 am
You sure got all creative with these. They sound good.
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Twitter: BeautifulSpitUp
September 6, 2011 at 2:24 pm
I did. I’m a foodie dork like that. And yes, they were yummy.
I find these totally inspirational! Thanks for reading my SITS post!
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September 6, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Thanks for stopping by!!
Twitter: Austin_Davidson
September 14, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Eve, I found you through Skinny Scoop. I love this site! These are the great little desserts!!! Yum. Will you please link them to Sunday Supper Stumble? http://notyourordinaryrecipes.blogspot.com/2011/09/sunday-supper-stumble.html
I’m a new follower!
Twitter: BeautifulSpitUp
October 3, 2011 at 11:34 am
Yay, thanks Austin! Sorry I didn’t get a chance to link up. Your comment was lost in spam. Sorry about that!! I’m actually moving Scrumptious Sunday to Fridays. Stay tuned for deets!