Sweet Baked Pumpkin Recipes

CINNAMON BAKED PUMPKIN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line a 3-quart rectangular baking dish with foil. In a small bowl, stir together brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt; set aside. In prepared 3-quart rectangular baking dish toss pumpkin with oil. Sprinkle brown sugar mixture evenly over pumpkin.
• Bake, covered with foil, for 40 minutes. Uncover and stir pumpkin. Bake, uncovered, about 15 minutes more or until pumpkin is tender. Makes 10 (3/4-cup) servings.

BAKED WHOLE PUMPKIN

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Cut the lid off the pumpkin and remove the seeds.
• Combine the eggs, whipping cream, brown sugar, molasses, nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger. Pour mixture into the pumpkin shell and top the butter. Replace lid on pumpkin and place in a baking pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 to 1-1/2 hours or until mixture has set like a custard. Serve right from the pumpkin at the table, scraping some of the meat from the pumpkin wall with each serving.

BAKED PUMPKIN, SWEET POTATO, AND COCONUT MILK SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Puncture acorn squash and pumpkin in several places using a knife. Wrap the sweet potatoes in aluminum foil. Place squash, pumpkin, and sweet potatoes on a baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the pumpkin begins to cave in and the skin browns, about 2 hours.
• Remove the skin, then chop the sweet potatoes. Skin, seed, and chop the pumpkin and acorn squash. Place the sweet potatoes, pumpkin, and acorn squash in a large pot and mash until smooth. Stir in the coconut milk until incorporated, reserving 1/2 cup for garnish, then stir in the chicken broth. Season with salt, pepper, lime juice, and ground ginger.
• Cook over medium heat until heated through. Serve with a lime wedge and a drizzle of coconut milk.

CINNAMON TOAST PUMPKIN SEEDS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
• Mix butter, cinnamon, and salt together in a bowl.
• Place pumpkin seeds in a large bowl and pour butter mixture over seeds; toss to evenly coat. Spread coated seeds in a single layer onto a baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven, stirring occasionally, until seeds are lightly browned, about 40 minutes. Remove baking sheet from oven; sprinkle sugar over seeds and stir until evenly coated.

SWEET PUMPKIN SEEDS

Steps:

• Remove all the pulp and strings from the pumpkin seeds, then wash and thoroughly dry the seeds.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Place the melted butter in a bowl, toss the seeds in the butter to coat, and pour them onto the prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle about 2 tablespoons of sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon over the seeds, stir the seeds around to mix the coating, and spread them into a single layer. Bake the seeds in the preheated oven for 5 minutes.
• Remove the seeds from the oven, and sprinkle them with another coating of 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon, mixing the seeds together and spreading them out as before. Bake 5 more minutes. Repeat the coating and baking step one more time, and bake the seeds for 5 more minutes.
• Sprinkle the seeds with the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar, mix, and bake the sugar coating onto the seeds, about 10 more minutes. Let the seeds cool on the baking sheet before eating.

SWEET BAKED PUMPKIN

Steps:

• Mix apples, raisins, walnuts, brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice together in a bowl.
• Stuff the hollowed out pumpkin with the apple mixture and place in a shallow baking dish.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 1 1/2 hours or until the apples and pumpkin are soft.
• Serve hot from the pumpkin over ice cream.