Aren't these adorable?? Not alone are they adorable, tardily Peanut Butter Pumpkins are only plainly fun to brand too sure brand for 1 cute & tasty footling autumn treat! Perfect for Halloween, Thanksgiving, or whatsoever fun autumn event.
Happy October, everyone!
The calendar month has only barely begun, too our 8-year-old footling 1 is already obsessed alongside what she's going to live for Halloween. We had to brand our showtime run to the Halloween shop yesterday afternoon to start scoping out the costumes too getting ideas for how she's going to clothing up.
Her electrical current thinking? She's going to live a vampire. And she only can't hold off to seat on some drops of mistaken blood. I recall my years of cute, sweetness footling costumes are over.
Not alone are they adorable, easy Peanut Butter Pumpkins are only plainly fun to brand too sure brand for 1 cute & tasty footling autumn treat!
To acquire fifty-fifty to a greater extent than inwards the autumn too Halloween spirit than our missy already is, nosotros had some fun yesterday whipping upwards a batch of these tardily footling Peanut Butter Pumpkins.
Aren't they only adorable?
And when I nation easy footling Peanut Butter Pumpkins, I exercise hateful easy. The homemade candy corn I made a twosome years back? While sure as shooting a fun project, it doesn't quite autumn inwards the "easy" category.
But these pumpkins? Definitely easy.
I learned to brand these from my sometime assistant principal, dorsum a few years agone when I was a 1st bird teacher. She made a huge platter total equally a process for us teachers to take in too bask alongside our lunch.
They are therefore adorable, I only had to larn how to brand them. She was happy to part her recipe.
To brand these footling cuties, start past times whipping upwards a rattling unproblematic peanut butter dough.
Place some butter, peanut butter, too powdered saccharide inwards a bowl too compaction it alongside an electrical mixer until it's good combine too smooth.
The easiest way to acquire the nutrient coloring to mix evenly throughout the dough is to mix it inwards alongside the H2O earlier you lot add together it to the dough.
If your butter is softened, the mixture comes together prissy too smoothen inwards no fourth dimension at all.
Then add together inwards a footling fleck of water, some vanilla extract, too a few drops of ruby too yellowish nutrient coloring.
The easiest way to acquire the nutrient coloring to mix evenly throughout the dough is to mix it inwards alongside the H2O earlier you lot add together it to the dough.
That way, you lot easily acquire it mixed inwards too acquire an fifty-fifty color instead of ending upwards alongside ruby or yellowish streaks inwards the dough that are nearly impossible to stir out.
If you're opposed to nutrient coloring, past times all means, move out it out. The pumpkins volition only live a lite tan color instead of on the lite orangish side.
I dearest that each pumpkin comes out alongside its ain hold off too "personality." Just similar all of us, no 2 are alike.
Once the dough is mixed, chill it for a few minutes ... nearly xx or so. This makes it only a footling less gummy to move alongside when forming it into pumpkins.
Then working alongside a modest slice of dough at a time, role your hands to coil some dough into a modest ball.
Then role a toothpick to add together vertical lines to brand the dough ball hold off similar a pumpkin.
The easiest way to add together "pumpkin lines" is to identify a toothpick vertically upwards against the dough ball, similar this:
And therefore gently lean the toothpick in, pressing it into the dough ball, similar this:
Press the toothpick inwards pretty adept to acquire a prissy indentation.
When nosotros made our batch, my missy tried drawing the lines on alongside the terminate of the toothpick instead of using the "press in" method ... that didn't move rattling good at all.
Then role the toothpick to repeat indentations all the way closed to the dough ball, making nearly v or half dozen "pumpkin lines" total.
Finally, popular a mini chocolate chip on arrive at for a stem, too you're done!
You'll accept an adorable footling peanut butter pumpkin that looks nearly similar this:
So cute!
I dearest that each pumpkin comes out alongside its ain hold off too "personality." Just similar all of us, no 2 are alike.
Our missy had fun making her pumpkins all dissimilar sizes ... too fifty-fifty made a few cute footling babe pumpkins. Not to mention, in that place may accept been a twosome of peanut butter snowmen, too.
Peanut Butter Pumpkins are such a slap-up footling solid unit of measurement projection ... It's sort of similar modeling alongside edible play-dough. I know nosotros sure had a adept fourth dimension making ours.
And hey, you lot acquire to consume your creations.
So take in your jounce of peanut butter too whip upwards a batch for Halloween, Thanksgiving, or whatsoever fun autumn event. Because these footling cuties are only plainly fun to brand too sure brand for 1 cute & tasty footling autumn treat!
Thank you lot for stopping past times . We'd dearest to accept you lot dorsum soon.
Yield: 50-60 pieces
Easy Peanut Butter Pumpkins
Not alone are they adorable, tardily Peanut Butter Pumpkins are only plainly fun to brand too sure brand for 1 cute & tasty footling autumn treat! Perfect for Halloween, Thanksgiving, or whatsoever fun autumn event.
prep time: 1 H & 45 Mcook time: total time: 1 H & 45 M
ingredients:
- 3/4 c. (6 oz.) creamy peanut butter
- 3 c. (16 oz.) powdered sugar
- 1/2 c. (1 stick) butter, softened
- 1/4 c. water*
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 7 drops each ruby & yellowish food coloring (I role gel nutrient coloring)
- mini chocolate chips
- toothpicks for forming the pumpkins
instructions:
How to create Easy Peanut Butter Pumpkins
- With an electrical mixer, mix together peanut butter, powdered sugar, too butter until good combined too smooth.
- Place vanilla extract too food coloring inwards the water. Add H2O to the peanut butter mixture too mix until combined. Chill for nearly xx to xxx minutes. (NOTE: Use to a greater extent than or less food coloring to accommodate your desired color.)
- Shape a modest slice of the peanut butter dough into a modest ball the mixture is rattling rich, therefore move along your dough balls on the modest side.
- To brand pumpkin stripes: Place a toothpick vertically upwards against the side of the dough ball. Gently tip the toothpick toward the dough ball to press it into the dough, creating a vertical indentation work inwards the dough. Repeat to create nearly v or half dozen lines closed to the dough ball.
- Top alongside a mini chocolate chip for a stem.
- Repeat alongside remaining dough.
- Store finished peanut butter pumpkins inwards the refrigerator.
TRACEY'S NOTES
- * The dough tin easily move also sticky, therefore live sure to non mensurate over the 1/4 loving cup of water. If anything, err on the side of using slightly less than 1/4 cup.
- Makes nearly 50-60 pumpkins, depending on the size you lot brand them.
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