Pumpkin Creme Brûlée Shots

Why is this a Foodgasm?

Pumpkin Palooza is happening NOW! Us ladies we love some pumpkin and we like some spice for the fall. You know I gotcha covered with some amazing treats and I lowered the fat. Make sure you head over to my Facebook page today (10/23), I am hosting a pumpkin party, so make sure you check out my recipes as well as all my food blogger friends pumpkin recipes!  Stop bye and share your recipes with me!

So how does Pumpkin Creme Brûlée sound? AMAZE-balls! Not only did I but the fat, but I made it MUCH easier to make at home. Best part, you get to play with FIRE! Ohhhh yeah! So I wanna give a nice shout out to my girl Jenni from Pastry Chef Online for this recipe. When I saw it, I just knew it was happening at NY Foodgasm HQ! This is actually more of a pudding, but it is so creamy and delish with that same charred sugar crust, you won't miss the original. I made a couple adjustments from the original recipe to cut a little fat, but overall I kept true to her recipe. I mean it is a GREAT recipe with Maple syrup and spices, YUM! When I saw the lemon, I was thinking "NO way!" but it TOTALLY works! She is a pro and I trusted her.

As soon as I saw this I knew I was gonna make it Pumpkin Creme Brûlée. I was actually invited to a holiday food exchange party and I made these for it in individual shot glasses and even got cute little spoons. We were judged, like on Iron Chef on Presentation, Taste, so on. I won presentation, YAY! I am so anal I made sure I bought 16 matching shot glasses and cute little spoons. **obsessed**

So enough of my rambling, here is the recipe and the food porn!

Spiked Foodgasm: Pumpkin Spice Ale Muffins with a Spiced Glaze

Why is this a Foodgasm? 

It's fall and you all know how I am super stoked about pumpkin.... well now you can take that up 10 notches because I found a way to combine my love of pumpkin ale with my pumpkin baking!! I knew I had to create a recipe for pumpkin muffins, but then I remembered my Bluepoint Blueberry Muffins and I knew this needed some local craft pumpkin spice ale. But this time I added a little fat just to make them softer. I really like how the flavors are balanced well- I even used some lemon zest to brighten up the flavors so the spice didn't get lost, thanks to a tip from my friend Jenni at Pastry Chef Online. As if the muffins were not amazing enough already, I knew I wanted to just add another touch, so I created a simple glaze to drizzle over the top! Don't you just wanna lick your screen right now?

Here is how I lightened this- I used only an eighth cup of canola oil, nonfat Greek yogurt and pumpkin purée in place if some of the missing fat. The Greek yogurt and pumpkin keep these muffins nice and moist! With all the flavor and the texture you will NEVER know this was low fat!

For this recipe I used Southampton Pumpkin Ale.This craft beer, local to long island, has a nice balance of pumpkin and spice flavor while still retaining a nice hoppi-ness!

 

Pumpkin Coconut Tres Leches Cake

Why is this a Foodgasm?

It is officially Autumn guys, you know what that means? PUMPKIN EVERYTHING! Let the Pumpkin obsession begin now! This month you will be treated to my many pumpkin recipes, or annoyed. My husband is SICK of pumpkin by the end of October. I do it to death every year, but, I GOTTA!

Have you ever had Tres Leches Cake? This was my first time ever making it and trying it. It means 3 milks and boy are they bad for you, full of fat and yumminess. I saw Pumpkin Tres Leches Cake originally on My Love for Cooking and I was blown away! I knew I needed this in my life!! So I made my own version of this lightened up, using only 2 eggs an egg white, other than the cake is fat free and it kinda needs to be. The Tres Leches mixture is fat-tastic but we all need some fat in our lives from time to time. I lightened it up for you guys though, while also adding the awesomely yummy flavor of coconut milk in place of cream! Removing fat and adding flavor is the best of both worlds and that is what I try and do for every dish here at NY Foodgasm!