Pumpkin Cinnamon Streusel Scones

& pumpkin streusel muffins

Oct 05, 2024

∙ Paid

everything is brownish orange this week and that feels very apt for amber october. let’s dig into warm pumpkin spice, silky caramel & clumps of cinnamon streusel.

new on bbs

Pumpkin Streusel Muffins

Soft spiced pumpkin muffins made with a brown butter base and topped with a crispy brown sugar streusel topping. Optional: add a spiced cream cheese filling to the muffins.

gluten free

Pumpkin Oat Flour Muffins

Soft, fluffy and fall flavorful pumpkin muffins made with oat flour. This is a make ahead, one bowl, gluten-free recipe.

October Recipe Archive

2023: Salted Caramel Sauce & Banana Scones

2022: S’mores Blondies (take one look at the photo and tell me you don’t want to make them!)

2021: Banana Babka (yeasted banana dough around a cinnamon filling)

2020: Brown Butter Buttermilk Cinnamon Rolls (exactly 4 years ago today! and still one of my best and most popular recipes)

2019: Ombre Chocolate Buttercream (for those with a patience for making things delish and attractive)

52 weeks ago (member recipe)

Brown Butter Caramel Shortbread Bars

It’s sweet but there’s a hint of bitter gained by taking the caramel a few seconds past smoke point. The brown butter is prominent and the vanilla underlies it all, in the best way.

reader review

“Made these and are literally now in my top 5 desserts of all time. Unbelievable!! Best. Buns. Ever!” Cam on Milk Bread Sticky Pecan Buns

weekly reads & notes

“Nation Station started the day after the August 4th explosion in 2020,” Josephine Abou Abdo, the cofounder of Nation Station, told Al Jazeera.
“We responded to emergency needs back then and since the Israeli aggression on Monday, we’ve cooked meals for those in need.” The volunteers cook breakfast, lunch and dinner for the displaced people, to be delivered to the shelters. In total, they make 700 portions of food daily.” We are all the same’: Lebanese come together to feed those forced to flee, Aljazeera.
“Here in the U.S., extreme climate-related events like forest fires, floods, and drought ruin crops and harm aquatic life. They also cause power outages and disrupt transportation and distribution, which increases the price of all goods, including food. For many restaurant owners and chefs, the impact is a real, daily challenge, causing a shortage of quality ingredients and sudden fluctuations in price. All of this makes it harder to keep menu prices consistent and run a profitable business.” For Restaurant Owners, Climate Disruptions Mean Even More Uncertainty, Eater.
“Around the world today, the brand continues to rely on an image of Ireland that is perhaps more bucolic than that reality. Seán O’Brien, a representative of Kerrygold, insists that ‘This image is not for show!’, describing it as ‘a true representation of a proud tradition’. But although that tradition does persist, it does so in a modern Ireland, with the resources and corporate acumen to transform Kerrygold into a billion-euro global food brand.” A Dream of Gold and Green, How Irish butter took over the world, Vittles.
For the time being I have paused new paid subscriptions to buttermilk weekly. Some writers do this to take a break, I will not be doing that anytime soon (in fact we have a packed couple of months of recipes coming up). We’re getting into a second year of bw and I am seeing some drop offs so I want to focus just on the members that are here and give myself the time and freedom to evaluate whether or not this is a sustainable project. If you are currently a free subscriber and a recipe comes up that you feel you absolutely must have, email me and I can see about making that one accessible to you.
I’m sure you’ve heard about how Hurricane Helene has ravaged areas in the south east especially in North Carolina. Some small businesses who have been impacted and need support: Tiffany who blogs at Well Fed Baker, sharing gluten free recipes; Debi at Quiche my Grits who shares southern recipes (simply going to their sites and perusing the pages will generate a small ad income to them); french broad chocolate and East Fork Pottery (the latter have a sale on many of their beautiful pieces to help them keep retain their staff as they rebuild).
Pie month (season!) is on the way so this is your annual reminder to get liners for the bottom of your oven to capture any bubbling, leaking filling/sugar/butter or some combination of the those. I wasn’t making a pie (it was a pullapart bread, more on that in a few weeks) and smoke started oozing out of the oven as the filling was leaking and dripping down. It wasn’t nearly done baking when this started, so I set a cookie sheet on the rack under it, turned the fans on, opened windows and tried to let it continue baking without setting off the smoke alarm. I mostly succeeded, but then, lol, a bee flew in and my husband and I spent hours trying to shoo it out before our girls came home from school =| Anyway, there are now liners in my oven and I hope you never have to live through something like that, get those liners! ;p

and for members