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Pumpkin Pie Bites

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Yields 10-12, depending on scoop size. This recipe has been made using 1/2 leftover 8inch pumpkin pie

Ingredients

  • Leftover pumpkin pie (homemade or store-bought)
  • 4oz milk chocolate chips*
  • 4oz semi-sweet chocolate chips*

To finish

  • Sprinkles, or chopped roasted nuts

Method

  1. Place the left over pumpkin pie into a large bowl and break/ mic together to combine. You don’t smooth a mixture as these taste better with some texture from the original leftover pumpkin pie crust. Continue until you have a semi-smooth mixture
  2. Using a cookie scoop, place balls of the mixture onto a lined tray or container that will fit in your freezer compartment.
  3. When all the mixture has been scooped onto the tray, place it in the freezer for about 30 mins
  4. Just before removing the pumpkin pie balls from the freezer, combine both the chocolate chips in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of water and melt together until smooth
  5. Remove the pumpkin pie balls from the freezer and one at at time roll in the melted chocolate. Place back onto the lined tray, add sprinkles if using and allow the chocolate to fully set
  6. Serve and enjoy!

Hot Honey Pumpkin Chicken Donut Sandwiches

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Makes 10

Ingredients

Hot Honey Pumpkin Butter

  • 1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled slightly
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper (to taste)
  • 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
  • 1 teaspoon hot saue
  • 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin spice
  • Pinch Kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper

Donuts

  • 1 pack Ready-to-Bake biscuit dough, thawed if required

Crispy Chicken

  • 10-20* store-bought crispy chicken tenders (* number dependent on size of tender pieces)

To Finish

  • Pickled red onion slivers
  • Bread and butter pickle slices

Method

Crispy Chicken

  1. Cook in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions

Hot Honey Pumpkin Butter

  1. While the chicken is cooking, in the bowl of a stand mixer combine all the hot honey pumpkin butter ingredients
  2. Whisk at medium speed until combined, then increase speed to maximum until mixture appears whipped and translucent. Stop the mixer and set hot honey pumpkin butter mixture aside until needed

*You can also use a handheld electric whisk but it will take longer for the mixture to become “whipped”

Donuts

  1. Poke hole in centre of each biscuit with finger and stretch dough to create a 1-inch hole
  2. Drop dough, in batches, in fryer oil preheated to 350°F; cook between 1-2 minutes per side until golden and cooked through
  3. Remove from oil, drain on a rack before moving on to assemble the donut sandwiches

To assemble

  1. Assemble your dounts on serving plate(s)
  2. Place the hot chicken crispy chicken pieces in a large bowl. Add some of the hot honey pumpkin butter, amount to your liking, then stir and toss to coat the chicken pieces
  3. Arrange 1-2 pieces of coated crispy chicken on top of the donuts and finish with pickled red onion and pickle slices
  4. Serve and enjoy!

Pumpkin Sticky Toffee Puddings

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Makes 6

Ingredients

Pumpkin Puddings

  • 1/4 cup orange juice
  • 1/2 cup boiling water
  • 1 cup pitted prunes, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon pumpkin spice
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 3/4 cups light brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 Tablespoon maple syrup
  • 1 cup natural pumpkin puree

Toffee Sauce

  • 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 1 cup light brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup unsalted butter
  • 2 Tablespoons maple syrup
  • 1/2 medium Tonka bean, finely grated (can be substituted with 1 teaspoon vanilla extract)
  • 2 teaspoons Rum (or omit for a kiddy-friendly version)

Method

Pumpkin Puddings

  1. Preheat oven to 350°. Grease, or spray with baking spray, 6 mini-savarin or mini-Bundt tins
  2. In a small heatproof bowl, pour orange juice followed by the boiling water over the chopped prunes; stir in the baking soda. Stir together to combine and set aside to soak for about 15-20 minutes until softened
  3. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, pumpkin spice and salt. Set aside until needed
  4. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle, beat the butter with the brown sugar at medium speed until fluffy and combined
  5. Beat in the eggs, one at a time until combined, followed by the maple syrup
  6. Reduce speed to low, beat in the flour mixture in stages until just combined, scraping down bowl between additions
  7. Add the date mixture (including liquid) followed by pumpkin purée, and beat at low speed until just combined
  8. Divide the batter into the prepared mini-pans, and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 25 minutes*
  9. Remove from oven, and continue to Finishing Steps

Toffee Sauce*

  1. With about 5 minutes left on the pumpkin pudding baking time, in a small saucepan, combine the heavy cream, butter, brown sugar, maple syrup, finely grated tonka bean and the rum (if using)
  2. Bring to a gentle boil over moderate heat, stirring to melt the butter and sugar, cooking until slightly thickened and deep golden, about 3 minutes.
  3. Keep warm on a low heat until serving

To Finish

  1. Once you remove the puddings from the oven, using a skewer or toothpick, poke holes all over the exposed surface
  2. Spoon 4-5 teaspoons of the warm toffee sauce over the puddings, and let stand until absorbed, about 10 minutes
  3. Serve warm, turned out onto plates (they may take some gentle persuasion!) with some of the remaining sauce spooned over. Perfect with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!

Pumpkin Spice Cookie Shake

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Yields 1 shake

Ingredients

Spiced pumpkin puree

  • 3 teaspoon pumpkin spice
  • 1 cup canned pumpkin puree

Milkshake

  • 10 oz quality vanilla ice cream
  • 3/4 cup whole milk
  • 1/4 cup spiced pumpkin puree (see recipe above)
  • 1/3 cup cookies, broken to pieces, eg Oreos
  • Whipped cream to finish
  • Additional crushed cookie pieces, to finish

Method

For the spiced pumpkin puree

  1. Stir together the pumpkin spice and pumpkin puree until well blended. Set aside

For the milkshake

  1. Combine ice cream, milk, spiced pumpkin puree in blender container. Blend until smooth. Add the chocolate chip cookie pieces. Pulse to blend
  2. Pour milkshake mixture into tall milkshake/ sundae glass. Garnish with whipped cream and crushed cookie pieces
  3. Serve and enjoy!

*Makes enough spiced pumpkin puree for 4 shakes. Store any surplus in an air-tight container and refrigerate.

Pumpkin Dutch Baby Babies

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Yields 12

Ingredients

Dutch Babies

  • 2 Tablespoons butter
  • 3 large eggs
  • ¾ cup milk, whole or 2% milk recommended
  • 5 Tablespoons pure pumpkin puree, not pie filling
  • ¾ cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 Tablespoon white granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
  • Generous pinch of cinnamon
  • Small pinch of allspice and nutmeg
  • Additional 2 Tablespoons butter, melted (for coating muffin tins)

Maple Mascarpone

  • 8oz mascarpone cheese
  • ¼ cup milk
  • 2 tablespoon maple syrup
  • ½ teaspoons pumpkin spice

Method

Maple Mascarpone

  1. Stir together the mascarpone, milk, maple syrup and pumpkin spice in a bowl until smooth. Refrigerate until needed at serving

Dutch Babies

  1. Place a 12-cup or two 6-cup muffin tins in oven and preheat oven to 425° F
  2. Melt the butter needed for the pancake batter and set aside to cool slightly. Meanwhile, combine pancake ingredients in a blender (or a medium bowl with an immersion blender), adding the cooled, melted butter last. Mix well, until frothy. Leave to stand in blender (or bowl) while oven finishes preheating
  3. When oven is pre-heated, carefully remove hot muffin tin(s) from oven and quickly pour a bit of melted butter into each muffin cup. Turn blender on for a few seconds to re-mix the batter, then quickly pour the mixture into the hot muffin cups, dividing equally between 12 cups, filling about ½ way full
  4. Place in oven and bake for 22-24 minutes, or until puffy and deep golden colour. Remove from oven. Remove from pan to a cooling rack to cool slightly before serving*. (If you find the pancakes sticking in your pan, run a knife around the edges, then use a fork to lift them out)
  5. Garnish with icing/confectioners sugar
  6. Drizzle or spoon on some of the maple mascarpone and some additional chopped walnuts or pecans, to taste

* Note: The Dutch babies will quickly deflate when you remove them from the oven. Don’t worry –  that’s what they do naturally.