Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Pumpkin!

I'm posting up some treats for Emily in honor of her pumpkin obsession.

First, inspired by this Pumpkin Spice Creamer from Coconut Mama, I made this the other morning. I didn't use it in coffee, we had it as a warm breakfast drink (also known as soup!). You'll get fats and gelatin in this one.

Sweet and Creamy Pumpkin Spice "Notte" (Rhymes with Latte!) a la Kathryn

Ingredients:
2 cups pumpkin puree (canned or make your own)
3 cups coconut milk (canned (Natural Value is organic, BPA and guar gum free!) or make your own but if you make it, make it thick)
Seasonal spice - nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon
a pinch or two of salt
2 teaspoons vanilla.
6 egg yolks
a big hunk of coconut oil, maybe a 1/4 cup
grass-fed gelatin (yes, this is GAPS, after all)
optional honey if you want the dessert feature

Mix it all together and gently warm. I don't like to heat raw honey so I didn't let this get too warm. Let your gelatin "bloom" by sprinkling it and letting it rest before you stir it in. Both girls liked it and it was quite filling!

Then later you could make these:

Pumpkin Spice Coconut Muffins

I found a recipe for basic coconut muffins and highly modified it, so you may have to adjust the cooking time just a bit. Keep checking them. They turned out great and didn't last 24 hours. Makes 12.

Ingredients:

6 egg yolks and 1 cup coconut milk to replace whites (or use whole eggs)

1.5 cups pumpkin puree

1/2 cup, plus 3 tablespoons coconut flour

1 tablespoon each of cinnamon and ginger

a few grates of nutmeg

1 tsp baking soda (saw that it is now considered GAPS legal)

1 tsp vanilla (optional)

1/4 cup melted coconut oil

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Prepare your muffin pan.

I like to put all wet ingredients together and all dry ingredients together then mix them. Let sit 5 minutes. Fill your muffin pan and then bake 20-25 minutes until starting to brown and not soft when lightly touched on the top. We put coconut oil and a drizzle of honey on them. No gelatin in this one.

I like the looks of the recipes on the Coconut Mama site. I have to go back and peek around there some more. I saw this recipe for Pumpkin Fudge and was thinking I could modify it too (less honey) or maybe not!   Might make for a tasty muffin topping or would that be too much pumpkin for you, Em?