What pumpkin spice creation is most searched for in Texas? Here’s what Google says
Texans searched for pumpkin spice cakes the most on Google, according to a Google Trends map showing the most popular pumpkin spice foods in each state.
One pumpkin spice sheet cake recipe only takes 15 minutes to prep and requires five steps. The cake is scented with vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and allspice, plus topped with cream cheese icing. Don’t feel like baking? Here are the best places for pumpkin desserts in the Fort Worth area, per Star-Telegram columnist Bud Kennedy.
With the beginning of fall commencing, Texans can’t get enough of the flavor. Along with the cake, the state is also the sixth most pumpkin spice latte obsessed state, according to Google search data.
“Our olfactory systems are already built to respond enthusiastically to odors and their associated memories. On top of that, our experience of odors can be pushed and pulled a little bit by familiar words or phrases,” Sarah Cormiea, a postdoctoral researcher in the Neurology Department at the University of Pennsylvania, told Allrecipes. “So, if you have a lot of nostalgia for the fall season, then a smell that’s strongly related to fall with a familiar name like PSL would probably work really well to stimulate all those warm fuzzy feelings. And over time, I would bet that the tradition of excitedly going to get that first PSL of the season starts to grow a kind of nostalgia of its own.”
Not only are edible pumpkin spice concoctions popular, so are pumpkin spice treatments, as the fruit contains potassium and Vitamin A. The top trending pumpkin spice beauty products in the past week across the U.S., according to the search engine, were pumpkin spice pedicure, toothpaste, deodorant, body wash and nails.
Where are most pumpkins grown in Texas?
While 90-95% of the processed pumpkins in the United States are grown in Illinois, Floydada, a small town in Floyd County, is known as “the Pumpkin Capital of the USA.” Most pumpkins grown in Texas are grown in the West Texas community home to about 2,500 people.
“Well, there were so many growers and starting in the 1950s from Floydada they started raising pumpkins,” Tim Assiter, who operates Assiter Punkin Ranch in the town, tells NewsWest 9. “And in 1993 we had 35 growers with 3,000 acres. Today we have about 1,200 acres but we raised about the same amount of pumpkins. So it’s a great place to grow pumpkins, we grow them here, we grow a lot of them. The Floydada pumpkin is very famous and we ship it all over the country.”
How long do pumpkins last?
You can expect pumpkins to last through autumn — two to three months, per Country Living. But that’s only if they’re uncarved pumpkins that are kept out of the hot sun and freezing weather. Carved pumpkins, on the other hand, can last as little as a few days.
