Dessert of pumpkinWhat can you make from a pumpkin? Let's think: soup, porridge, pancakes, lettuce, pie, casserole, biscuits ... But what about dessert? Would you like to try a pumpkin cake with cream or a delicate pumpkin mousse? Your guests will surely be pleasantly surprised if at the end of the Halloween party you give them dessert of pumpkin.





Pumpkin Dessert: Orange-Pumpkin Cupcakes</ h2>

Recently, the fashion for cupcakes has returned,more precisely, on their western counterparts - muffins and capcasks. And since Halloween came to us from the West, pumpkin cakes will be especially appropriate on the festive table. For their preparation we will need:



  • peeled pumpkin flesh - 800 g

  • evaporated milk - 1 jar

  • large orange - 1 pc.

  • cornstarch - 1 tbsp. l.

  • ground cinnamon - 0,5 dess. l.

  • Ground dried ginger - 0,5 dess. l.

  • pinch of soda

  • vegetable oil

We clean the pumpkin and cut into large pieces. We cook the pumpkin for 2-3 minutes in the microwave at maximum power, it should become soft and let the juice run. We rub the pumpkin with a blender.


With a large orange we remove the zest and add topumpkin. We clean the orange, cut into pieces and put it in pumpkin puree. Again, whisk all blender until smooth, add condensed milk, starch, soda and spices. Stir the blender for the last time.


We pour out the dough on oiled batchmolds for cupcakes. We put in the oven, heated to 180 degrees, and bake for about 40 minutes (until redness). We let the prepared cupcakes cool, take them out of the molds and serve them to the table. If you cooked cupcakes in special paper shapes, you can serve dessert directly in them.


Pumpkin dessert: pumpkin mousse</ h2>

A gentle pumpkin mousse with ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg is a very delicious dessert from a seemingly simple product. To make it, we will need to take the following products:



  • pumpkin - 800 g

  • cream fat content of 30% - 200 ml

  • sugar - 100 g

  • candied ginger - 40 g

  • egg - 4 pcs.

  • fresh grated ginger - 1 tbsp. l.

  • gelatin in powder - 1 tbsp. l.

  • Grated nutmeg, cinnamon - one pinch

We clean the pumpkin from the peel and seeds. We cut the pulp into slices, spread it on a baking tray and cover with foil. We put the baking tray in the oven, heated to 220 degrees, and bake the pumpkin for ten minutes. Finished pumpkin let it cool down and we rub with a blender.


Whisk eggs with sugar in a strong foam. Add gelatin and mix thoroughly. We combine egg mixture, pumpkin puree, grated fresh ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon. Stir until homogeneous and clean in the refrigerator for five minutes.


While the mousse cools, whip the cream. Cautiously we enter cream in mousse, we spread a dessert on glasses and again we put in a refrigerator at least for five hours that mousse froze. Before serving, decorate our pumpkin dessert with thin slices of candied ginger.


Dessert of pumpkin: pumpkin cheesecake</ h2>

Yes, cheesecakes can also be made from pumpkins! Here is a simple recipe for pumpkin cheesecake with hazelnuts. The cake for it is made from cookies, so you do not have to bother with baking the biscuit. Ingredients we need the following:



  • 1.5 tbsp. Pumpkin puree

  • 350 g of condensed milk

  • 200 g chocolate chip cookies

  • 200 g of cream cheese

  • 100 g of butter

  • 3 eggs

  • Vanillin - to taste

  • hazelnuts for decoration

Pumpkin puree is prepared in a standard way,described in the previous recipes: peeled and sliced ​​pumpkin bake in the oven or put in a microwave for a couple of minutes, then turn into puree with a blender.


Chocolate cookies are ground into crumbs andmixed with melted butter. The resulting mass is evenly distributed along the bottom of the baking dish. Mix cream cheese or cottage cheese with condensed milk and vanilla, add mashed potatoes and mix thoroughly with a mixer.


Pour the dough into a mold on the cake of pastry,sprinkle with nuts. Bake in a preheated oven to 200 degrees for 40-45 minutes. Ready cheesecake let it cool completely in the oven and then we get it: from a sharp temperature drop, the surface of the dessert may crack.


Bon Appetit!

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