These delightful, soft and subtly spiced pumpkin shaped bread rolls are like a warm hug for your taste buds, and they’re here to transform your autumn mornings, family gatherings, and quiet evenings into moments of pure delight. Try these cute pumpkin shaped rolls, with their enticing aroma and fluffy texture. They really aren’t hard to make, but give a ‘wow’ effect.
I developed this recipe for Pit & Pit last year. The bread flour, speculoos spices and turmeric are from their fabulous webshop: Pit&Pit: gezonde, 100% natuurlijke producten van topkwaliteit. – Pit&Pit (pit-pit.com)
I’ll add a link to the Instagram reel I made. There you can check out exactly how to make these cute little rolls.
Recipe
Ingredients (makes 12):
- 7 grams dried yeast
- 40 grams sugar
- 50 grams melted butter
- 1 egg
- 200 grams pumpkin puree (room temp if homemade)
- 650 grams bread flour
- 2 ts pumpkin spice (or speculoos spice)
- 1/2 ts turmeric
- 1.5 ts salt
- To finish: vegetable oil, kitchen string, a few pecans and one lightly beaten egg
Method:
- Add the yeast and 1 ts of sugar to 200 grams of lukewarm water. Let rest for ten minutes.
- In a large bowl, combine the remaining sugar, melted butter, the egg and the pumpkin puree. Add the water with the now activated, foaming yeast to this and mix.
- In a medium sized bowl, combine flour, pumkin spice, turmeric and salt.
- Little by little, add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, to form a dough that doesn’t feel sticky any longer. Cover and allow to rise until about doubled in size (approximately one hour).
- Cut 48 pieces of about 30 cm of kitchen twine. Cover the ropes in vegetable oil. This way, they won’t stick to the rolls later on.
- Once risen, press the air out of the dough and divide it into pieces of about 100 grams. Flatten those pieces, fold the outsides inwards and make little round rolls.
- Take four pieces of rope and place them into a star shape. Place a roll on there, bottom up, and loosely tie the ropes in the middle. Don’t tighten them! Make twelve of these and leave to rise for about 75 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (360 Fahrenheit). Give the rolls a little egg wash with the beaten egg, and bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until baked through.
- Once cool enough to handle, cut the ropes and remove them. Make a stalk using a piece of pecan. There you go, pumpkin shaped bread rolls!