Excited for your one last break before finals knock you over the head? Thanksgiving can’t get here fast enough. But as we look forward to sleeping, stuffing ourselves, and killing our bank account on Black Friday, we shouldn’t forget to remember the point of Thanksgiving – being thankful! And what better way to appreciate your college experience before going home than getting together with your best friends and having your own mini-Thanksgiving together?
It would be a little extreme to cook a full Thanksgiving meal at school. However, you can achieve the same effect by inviting your closes friends over for a Thanksgiving Day dessert. With the month of November notorious for midterms and papers, getting together to show you appreciate each other can go a long way to reduce stress and put life in perspective.
My number one recommendation for a Thanksgiving dessert is a pumpkin cake. I use this recipe from allrecipes.com every year and this cake is gone almost as soon as I take it out of the oven. Give it a try on your own!
Ingredients
2 cups white sugar
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups canned pumpkin
4 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 12×18 pan.
- Sift and mix the flower, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
- Combine sugar, oil, vanilla, and pumpkin and beat in the eggs.
- Beat in the flower mixture.
- Spread the batter into the pan.
- Bake for 30 minutes and cool.
- Ice with either cream cheese or vanilla icing (cream cheese is my personal favorite)!
Enjoy!
Source: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/pumpkin-cake-iii/detail.aspx