Fall Harvest Special...

"We have to cook up something special for the Fall Harvest Festival dinner," Goodiegood told her sisters as they all gathered in their kitchen.  "Since this year's theme is pumpkin, I am sure that Parsley will bring her pumpkin spice muffins and Granny Flare will more than likely have her pumpkin chocolate chip cookies there as a dessert."  

"But what can we whip up that will be different?  We have to show everyone that we still have that special touch and are the best bakers in the realms!"  ​

Goodie2shues and Goodie4U just looked at each other and tried to think up something unique.  "I remember a few years ago when Granny came up with a gluten free pumpkin pie recipe that everyone tried just to see what it tasted like," said Goodie2shues.  "Hardly anyone ate what we brought that year," added Goodie4U remembering all of the leftovers they had from that Harvest Festival.  "We don't want that again," added Goodiegood.

As the three sisters stewed over what special recipe they would pull together, they sat and sipped their pumpkin spice tea.  Suddenly Goodiegood smiled.  The others could just picture her mind churning up something.  "I know what we can create and we won't even have to use the oven!" she snickered.  "No one else would ever think of it..." she continued almost to herself.

When Goodiegood did not finish her thought, the other sisters (at the same time) said, "Well, what is it?"  Goodiegood looked at both of them as if it was the first time she realized they were there with her.  Laughing she told them her idea.  Soon all of them were snickering as the cooking supplies started to fly off of the shelves and onto the mixing table.  

​"This will be fun and we didn't even have to ask the Magical Cooking Spoon for an idea," Goodie2shues thought as she started her part of the recipe.

The recipe:

• 1 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup butter

First she melted the butter and mixed it with the sugar and graham cracker crumbs in a large bowl.  Next she pressed the mix across the bottom of a cake pan and then put the pan into a cooler to chill it until it was cold.

As Goodie2shues was making the crust, Goodie4U was starting the filling.  In a large bowl she mixed:

• 15 ounces of canned pumpkin
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon of ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg

After mixing the ingredients, she folded in 1 quart of softened vanilla ice cream.  Next she spooned everything into the chilled crust made by Goodie2shues and they put the treat into a freezer for about 30 minutes.  When this was done, it was Goodiegood who figured out that a double batch of the mixture would fill a 9 inch by 13 inch cake pan.  "If we are going to have enough for everyone, we will need to get some more supplies before the Festival," she told her sisters as they were looking over the finished treat after it had chilled sufficiently.  "I wonder how much ice cream we can get this time of year?"

"No one will think of this," said Goodie2shues as the others nodded their heads in agreement.  "But what do you call it?" she asked Goodiegood who had thought up the recipe.

"I was thinking about Cornelia when the recipe came to me," she told the others.  "I was thinking that it would be nice to have some of her honey to go with my pumpkin spice tea.  So I am going to call our new make - Bee's Pumpkin Ice Cream."

​After heating up some more tea and trying a slice of their new dessert, it was Goodie4U who reminded the others, "Don't forget to save some for Dree and Drat since they have to stay in the cave for now.  We don't want Dree to sniff it out and come at the wrong time." 

The others nodded their head in agreement as Goodiegood made a note on the shopping list to not forget the two in the cave.