Have I Mentioned I LOVE Pumpkin?

As if the fall season couldn't get any better, it comes along with the pumpkin flavor. One of my favorite pumpkin treats are chocolate chip pumpkin whoopie pies with cream cheese filling. What's NOT to love?

For the past two days Decary has stepped up their game and had pumpkin flavored desserts. I honestly couldn't tell you what the first one was. It was similar to the consistency of a brownie but it was pumpkin flavored. It also had crushed up nuts and spices on top. Long story short, it was to die for.

Today they had pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting and orange sprinkles for the halloween spirit. The cake was so moist. The frosting was so smooth and not too sugary. It was the perfect combination for how I enjoy my cake most.

For those of you who also love pumpkin spice cake and enjoying cooking, I though I'd link you to the recipe for the cake I had today.

Pumpkin Spice Cake

Hopefully Decary will keep up with this trend and satisfy all my fall desires tonight at dinner!

Treats

I'm sorry this post was a little later than usual. I have been sick the past couple days and surprisingly when I'm sick I lose my appetite for sweets. I just started to get my appetite back yesterday. Yesterday being just in time for some nice little treats at Decary.

For lunch they had 3 different types of treats. They were like Rice Crispy treats however instead of using Rice Crispies they used Fruit Loops in one, Lucky Charms in another, and Reeses Peanut Butter Puffs in the third. I only tried the Fruit Loop and Lucky Charms ones. Out of those two I preferred the Lucky Charms treats.

For dinner they had the classic, but always good, strawberry shortcake. In my opinion, you can't go wrong with strawberry shortcake. Some people might think you can only have strawberry shortcake when it's hot out, or for the Fourth of July. However, I would definitely beg to differ. In my book it is one of those 'all year desserts' that never gets old.

Homeade

This weekend I went home and finally got some homemade cooking. Me and my mom worked together to make what I would argue is the best applesauce ever. Maybe I'm biased because the apples come off our trees and I can add as much of anything as I want to make it taste how I want. Or the fact that making it with my mom mad it a lot more fun.

I like the way the apples aren't completely mushed. I'm not saying I like chunky applesauce, but I definitely don't mind the surprise of an occasional small chunk of apple. I also like how it's perfectly sweetened to my liking. I ate a whole jar by myself :)

I was planning on bringing back a few jars to share with my roomies, but obviously I forgot. No biggie though because my parents will be visiting this weekend for parent weekend and I'll have them bring me some so I can share the joy!

On a side note, I haven't tried any new Ben and Jerry's flavors however Decary FINALLY had Gifford's cake batter...only the richest ice cream out there. They also had some pretty awesome apple crisp the other night. Congratulations Decary.

Frustration.

So in the past week I haven't eaten anything mind-blowingly good. I wasn't even on campus this weekend but I was told by my friend, who was visiting from Bentley, that Decary's dessert selection was lacking this weekend. I'll take her word for it.

I thought since there wasn't anything that excited me enough to blog about I'd write about all my guilty pleasure treats. The first is candy corn. I'm not sure what it is about candy corn that's so intriguing but every time I pass the bowl sitting on top of the TV I take a few. The second is Dove dark chocolate. As if the chocolate wasn't good enough, the wrappers have the nicest little quotes on them. Naturally I keep them all..... The one on top of the pile right now says:

 "Don't settle for a spark... light a fire instead." love, Dove. 


The third and final guilty pleasure hiding in my room is York Patties. They are the mini ones. It's the perfect size if I just need a little something to taste in my mouth. AND you can freeze them which is nice if it's hot in my room.

Hopefully by next week I'll encounter something ridiculously good to let you guys know about!

Pumpkin Pumpkin Pumpkin Pie!

Fall is definitely my favorite season. Just everything about it; apple picking, apple crisp, pumpkin carving, pumpkin pie! I love Fall so much that I decided to be SO BADASS and bring a pumpkin pie scented candle into my dorm room (don't tell).

Now for the best part, today's dessert at Decary was pumpkin pie, with pumpkin whipped cream on top AND they even had pumpkin ice cream, so obviously I had some with mine. The pie was pretty good, I mean it wasn't even comparable to my Grammie's pumpkin pie but it was still pretty good. It was also a first for me. I've never had pumpkin flavored whip cream.


On a final note, I thought I'd let you know that I've tried two new Ben and Jerry's flavors.
Schweddy Balls- check
Boston Cream Pie- check

I think I liked Boston Cream Pie better just because I love rich ooey gooey stuff. However, Schweddy Balls tasted like Christmas! So it was definitely a close call.