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Pumpkin Dessert and Kids in the Kitchen with Danielle Herberg

ByStaci October 13, 2023October 14, 2023 October 14, 2023 Breakfast and Brunch, Meals and sides, Sweets

mom and daughter by a truck with pumpkins around it

Mid-October is the perfect time for a new pumpkin dessert recipe.

On this week’s Funeral Potatoes & Wool Mittens podcast episode, Danielle Herberg and her 7-year-old daughter, Carly, join me from their home in Browns Valley, Minnesota.

Danielle talks about who influenced her love of baking, what happened when she and her daycare kids experimented growing seeds from a tomato, and she pulls out some of her favorite recipes from her go-to community cookbook and her grandma Ileta’s recipe box.

Making sugar doughnuts at Grandma Kathy’s. Danielle left, Grandma Kathy, brother Casey at the stove and brother Victor in the middle.

Plus, she gives the local scoop on a coffee shop in Wilmot, South Dakota, and the Pub in Beardsley, Minnesota where they’re cooking up great burgers, and the restaurant and bakery in Sisseton South Dakota where her mom, Connie works.

And our special guest, Carly, pops in to tell us what her favorite part of baking is, what breakfast item they only make homemade, and what books she likes to read.

Here’s the apple peeler and corer that Carly tells us about.

Listen to Danielle’s Podcast Episode

Listen to Funeral Potatoes & Wool Mittens season 2 episode 3 on your favorite podcast app or using the link below.

Recipes from Danielle

Danielle and I talk about quite a few recipes in this episode. Many of them are from the community cookbook, Cooking with Coteau.

The recipe I made already is the pumpkin dessert (see the recipe at the end of this post). It’s like pumpkin pie—only better. The bar-like base from the yellow cake mix is a great combo with pumpkin. I’m not a huge fan of pie crust so this is a nice change.

Equally important is the buttery flaky cinnamon topping.

It would certainly serve more people than a 9-inch pie does. Because this pumpkin dessert is baked in a 9×13 pan, you could probably get 24 small servings from it.

piece of pumpkin dessert on a plate with forks

Here’s the two chicken recipes—easy chicken pot pie with biscuits, and creamed chicken on a biscuit.

easy chicken pot pie with biscuits recipe

This is the s’mores recipe Danielle said people like so much and ask her to bring. It disappears quickly, so people need to get to the party early. They also ask her why she only brings one pan.