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.

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.

ROASTED PUMPKIN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Cut pumpkin in half; scrape out seeds.
• Drizzle pumpkin with olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. (Omit pepper if using in sweet dishes.)
• Place cut side down on a baking sheet. Roast until very soft, about 35 to 45 minutes.

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.