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Best 12 Pumpkin Recipes
Twelve pumpkin recipes for the whole season — cakes, cinnamon rolls, donuts, bars, cookies and one creamy savoury pasta, all built from a can of pumpkin puree.
Pumpkin season is short and there is no sense wasting it on one pie. This is everything we bake with a can of pumpkin puree, gathered in one place: the sheet cakes and the cinnamon rolls, the donuts you can make without a vat of oil, the bars that skip pastry entirely, and one savoury pasta for the night you have had enough sugar. Most of them use between one and one and a half cups of puree, which means a single 15 oz can covers a recipe with a little left over — start at the top of the list and work down, and you will get through a lot of cans before the season ends.
A soaked sheet cake with espresso cream cheese frosting — the whole latte, in cake form.
Soft, tall and heavily spiced, with frosting that melts partway down the sides.
Baked not fried, then rolled warm in cinnamon sugar so the coating actually sticks.
Two soft cake rounds around a thick maple cream cheese filling. Makes eighteen.
Nearly as much crumb as muffin, with a high-heat start for real bakery domes.
Pumpkin pie on a shortbread base, cut into squares. No pastry to roll or crimp.
Soft spiced cookies with a cheesecake centre hidden inside each one.
One bowl, no mixer, and it stays soft for days thanks to oil instead of butter.
Crisp choux shells piped full of spiced pumpkin cream. Deceptively simple.
The Starbucks copycat, with the double glaze. Ready in half an hour.
A buttery streusel-topped coffee cake built for a slow weekend morning.
The savoury one — creamy pumpkin, garlic and fried sage, ready in 20 minutes.
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