Pumpkin puff pastry with a flaky, crunchy cover and warm, creamy filling of pumpkin and cream cheese. This vegetarian fall recipe needs a handful of ingredients and gets ready within 30 minutes.
Fall is all about creating a feeling of warmth and comfort. The aroma of warm spices, roasted pumpkins, simmering soups, creates that comforting ambiance.
Though after shifting to Dubai the seasons that we got to enjoy are pleasant summer, summer, extreme summer, and a tiny winter, I try to enjoy all the seasons I saw growing up in India by creating a similar environment at my home.
So, even when the average temperature in Dubai is around 40°C these days, I have started cooking my fall recipes which you are seeing on my blog too.
And, today I am sharing another very easy vegetarian fall recipe- Pumpkin puff pastry with cream cheese. This delicious puff pastry has a flaky, crunchy cover and warm, creamy filling of pumpkin and cream cheese. It’s very easy to make and gets ready within 30 minutes.
Ingredients required to make pumpkin puff pastry
This pumpkin puff pastry needs only 8 ingredients which are very easily available everywhere.
- Cream cheese (softened)- Vegans may skip it and make it with just pumpkin filling.
- Pumpkin puree- both home-made and store-bought are fine. However, since the canned pumpkin puree is thicker than the homemade one, using canned pumpkin puree is easier to manage in this recipe.
- Powdered sugar- You can also add any other sweetener of your choice.
- Pumpkin pie spice- Homemade/ store-bought
- Vanilla extract
- Brown sugar- Light/ dark both are fine. Normal white sugar can be used too.
- Puff pastry square- You can also take a puff pastry sheet and cut into squares of the desired size.
- Milk
Making pumpkin pie spice at home
If you don’t have pumpkin pie spice no need to go to the market for buying. Just mix the following spices and your homemade pumpkin spice is ready:
- Cinnamon powder: 4 teaspoons
- Ginger powder: 2 teaspoons
- Coves powder: 1 teaspoon
- Nutmeg powder: 1/2 teaspoon
- Ground allspice mix: 1/2 teaspoon
This will yield around 2.5 tablespoons of pumpkin pie spice
Tips for the recipe
- If possible, use canned pumpkin puree in this recipe as it’s thicker than the homemade pumpkin puree.
- If using homemade puree, I would suggest instead of folding the puffs, keeping them open like I did in these cherry cream cheese danish.
- Otherwise, the pumpkin filling may come out on folding and it will become difficult to handle them.
- The quantity of sugar may vary depending upon the sweetness of your pumpkin and your taste preference.
- You can also make these puffs without cream cheese if you like.
- Chocolate lovers may also add chocolate chips on top of pumpkin filling.
More easy pumpkin recipes
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How to make pumpkin puff pastry?
Pumpkin puff pastry
Ingredients
Ingredients for pumpkin filling
- 3/4 cup pumpkin puree homemade/ store-bought
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar adjust as per taste
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
Ingredients for cream cheese filling
- 1/2 cup cream cheese softened
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Ingredients for the glaze
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 tbsp milk
- 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
Other ingredients
- 6 puff pastry squares
Instructions
- Mix all the ingredients of pumpkin filling in a bowl and keep aside.
- In another bowl mix the ingredients of cream cheese filling and keep that aside too.
- Thaw the puff pastry squares and put on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
- Mark around 0.5-inch border around each square. Prick the center with a fork so that it rises lesser than the border.
- Put around 1.5 tablespoons of cream cheese filling at the center of all the puff pastry squares. Top it with some pumpkin filling
- Bake in a pre-heated oven at 200°C for 16-18 minutes or until the puffs start turning golden brown.
- Once done, take out the puffs and allow to reach room temperature on a cooling rack.
- To make the sugar glaze, mix all the ingredients of glaze until it becomes smooth. Drizzle on top of the puffs and enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
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