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Pumpkin Coffee Cake Wreath with Pumpkin-Spiced Cream Cheese Filling

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    Pumpkin Coffee Cake Wreath
    Pumpkin Coffee Cake Wreath

    I have been having so much fun baking with yeast this month. Today is no exception. I decided I wanted to make a coffee cake type pastry with icing and filling that would feature fall pumpkin flavors. I grew up with Entenmann’s pastries from the grocery store, and I was looking to emulate their various Danish rings with this recipe.

    I ended up constructing this wreath in two ways. One way was a traditional circle. For the other, I cut little slits all the way around before baking it, and the wring came out a little more decorative – though less tidy. Totally up to you for how to make yours, but the recipe does make 2 loaves, so play with it!

    Pumpkin Wreath without Slits
    Pumpkin WreathWithout Slits
    Pumpkin Wreath
    Pumpkin Wreath Sliced Open

    The recipe calls for 2 rises. One for the dough and then another one once the dough is stuffed. If you want to refrigerate your dough after stuffing it, you can refrigerate it overnight, then pull it out, let it come to room temperature, rise and then bake it so it comes out of the oven warm just in time for brunch.

    I kept this dish nut free because of allergy concerns, but sliced almonds or pecans are a great addition to the topping.

    Pumpkin Cream Cheese Filling
    Pumpkin Cream Cheese Filling

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    Pumpkin Coffee Cake Wreath with Pumpkin-Spiced Cream Cheese Filling
     
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    Fall pumpkin flavors infuse this danish ring with yumminess
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    Recipe type: Dessert, Brunch Pastry
    Serves: 20
    Ingredients
    • 1 package dry yeast (2¼ tsp)
    • ¼ cup warm water
    • 3½ cups all-purpose flour
    • ¾ cups canned pure pumpkin
    • ½ cup milk
    • ¼ cup butter, melted
    • 1 Tbsp sugar
    • 1¼ tsp salt
    • ½ tsp ground nutmeg
    • ½ tsp ground ginger
    • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
    • ¼ tsp ground cloves
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    • 2 8oz packages cream cheese
    • ½ cup canned pure pumpkin
    • 1 cup sugar
    • 2 Tbsp butter softened
    • 1 tsp cinnamon
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    • 1 Tbsp butter, melted
    • ¼ cup sugar
    • ½ tsp cinnamon
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    • 1 cup powdered sugar
    • 1 Tbsp milk
    • ¼ tsp vanilla
    Instructions
    1. Dissolve the yeast in warm water in a mug and cover with a plate. Set aside for 5 minutes. When you lift the plate, it should be foamy. If it's not foamy, it means that the yeast is no longer active and you'll have to start over with new yeast.
    2. In the bowl of a stand mixer, using the dough hook, combine 3 cups of the flour, the pumpkin, milk, melted butter, sugar, salt, nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon and cloves. Once it has taken on a crumbly texture, add the water and yeast mixture and continue mixing with the dough hook until a ball forms. Scrape the sides as necessary to ensure complete mixing. If the dough is sticky and not well-formed, add a Tbsp or so of flour and continue kneading with the dough hook. Knead for 3 minutes on medium speed, adding flour to ensure a springy, well-formed ball.
    3. Add a tsp of oil to the bowl and knead for 30 seconds. Remove bowl and cover with towel. Set in a warm place and let rise for 45 minutes to an hour until doubled.
    4. After the dough has risen, punch it down and turn it out onto a floured cutting board. Let rest for 5 minutes, then cut in half.
    5. To prepare the filling, go back to your stand mixer (wash that bowl), but this time you will use the wire whisk to beat at high speed, the cream cheese, pumpkin, sugar, butter, and cinnamon. Beat for 2 minutes until fluffy.
    6. Now roll out one ball of dough into a flat rectangle that is about 10x12 inches in size. Spread the cream cheese mixture over the dough leaving space around the edges. The cream cheese will be about ¼ inch thick. Now roll the long side of the dough up to make a tube. Bend the tube into a circle and press the ends together firmly. If you'd like to try cutting slits in the wreath, go ahead and do so. Repeat with the other ball of dough. You will have left over cream cheese mixture. It can be refrigerated for up to 3 days and used as icing on cupcakes.
    7. Transfer the rings to a cookie sheet or jelly roll pan sprayed lightly with cooking spray. Cover with a cloth and set in a warm place. Allow them to rise for 45 minutes. (Alternatively, you could cover them in plastic and refrigerate them over night before allowing them to come to room temperature and to rise the next morning)
    8. Preheat the oven to 375˚F.
    9. Using a spoon, spread melted butter over the tops of both rings. Use the back of the spoon to coat them evenly. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top of each ring. Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool on the baking sheet before transferring them to platters.
    10. Once the rings are cooled, make the icing by stirring together the sugar, milk and vanilla in a bowl with a fork or a wire whisk. If the icing is not going to hold the shape of its drizzle, add more sugar to thicken. Drizzle onto the rings and allow the icing to set for 5-10 minutes before serving.

     

    Pumpkin Coffee Cake
    Pumpkin Coffee Cake
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      Pumpkin Pull-Apart Cinnamon Buns

        Pumpkin Pull-Apart Cinnamon Buns
        Pumpkin Pull-Apart Cinnamon Buns

        The basis for these Pumpkin Pull-Apart Cinnamon Buns comes from a recipe I did during an earlier Pumpkin recipe marathon, when I featured Pumpkin Yeast Rolls. For this recipe, you start by making the dough for the Pumpkin Yeast Rolls and then form smaller balls to dip in melted butter and a sugary cinnamon mixture. Then you mush them into a bundt cake pan for baking. It’s a day’s project, but no one part of the recipe is that difficult, particularly if you have a Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer, which does most of the work. These are truly to-die-for. I took them into work and everyone went crazy for them! The pumpkin flavor in the rolls is subtle, so you could make them this way all year long.

        Pumpkin Pull-Apart Cinnamon Buns
        Pumpkin Pull-Apart Cinnamon Buns

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        Pumpkin Pull-Apart Cinnamon Buns
         
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        Recipe type: Dessert
        Serves: 20
        Ingredients
        • 1 package active dry yeast
        • 2 Tbsp brown sugar
        • ¾ cup warm milk
        • 6+ cups all-purpose flour
        • 1 tsp salt
        • ¾ cup unsalted cold butter, cut into small pieces
        • 1 large egg
        • 1 (15 oz) can of puréed pumpkin
        • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
        • 1 tsp ground ginger
        • ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
        • ¼ tsp ground cloves
        • Another Tbsp of melted butter
        • 1 cup granulated sugar
        • ½ cup brown sugar
        • 3 tsp ground cinnamon
        • ½ tsp nutmeg
        • 1 cup butter, melted
        • 1 cup confectioner's sugar
        • 1½ Tbsp milk
        • 1 tsp vanilla extract
        Instructions
        1. In a coffee cup, mix the brown sugar, yeast and warm milk. Cover and let stand for 5 minutes white becomes foamy and you prepare the flour.
        2. In the mixing bowl of your stand mixer with the wire whip attached, add 5 cups of the flour and the salt. Set the mixer on Level 2 and add the pieces of butter, one at a time, mixing all the time. Mix until the flour becomes course.
        3. Add the egg and continue mixing until well blended.
        4. Change the attachment to the flat beater and add the pumpkin and spices, mixing gently until incorporated.
        5. Change the attachment again, now to the dough hook. Dump in the cup full of yeast, milk, and brown sugar. Kneading on Level 2 for about 8 minutes, watch as a ball of dough forms. Have a cup of flour at the ready to add 1-2 Tbsp at a time until dough takes on a smooth, springy form that's not sticky. After you've added enough of the flour, let the dough hook continue kneading until the 8 minutes is done.
        6. Spray a large bowl with nonstick cooking spray. From the dough into a big ball and place in the bowl. Brush melted butter over the ball of the dough. Cover with a dish towel and let rise for about an hour. The dough should double in size.
        7. In the meantime, make your cinnamon-sugar dip by mixing together in a medium bowl, the sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
        8. Preheat the oven to 350˚F and spray a Bundt cake pan with cooking spray.
        9. Melt the butter in a microwave safe bowl and set aside.
        10. Turn the dough out onto a large cutting board and cut the big ball in half. Continue cutting the balls in half until you get down to a size that is about the size of a golf ball. Roll the dough between your fingers so that it forms a little perfect ball. Dip into the melted butter, then roll in the sugar mixture and place in the bottom of a bundt cake pan. Continue rolling, dipping and dredging until all of the little sugar-coated balls of dough are pressed into the bundt cake pan.
        11. Bake at 350˚F for about 35 minutes.
        12. Allow to cool for about 10-15 minutes before turning the bundt cake out onto your serving plate.
        13. With a fork, mix together the confectioner's sugar, milk and vanilla until smooth. Keep adding sugar until mixture coats the back of a spoon and just drips down slowly. Drizzle over the top of the sticky buns and allows to drip down the sides.
        14. Serve warm.

         

        Pumpkin Pull-Apart Cinnamon Buns
        Pumpkin Pull-Apart Cinnamon Buns


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          Pumpkin Zucchini Bread

            Pumpkin Zucchini Bread
            Pumpkin Zucchini Bread

            The most popular post on this blog, hands down, is My Ultimate Pumpkin Bread post, and one of my personal favorites is my Zucchini Bread post, so now that it’s October, I thought, why not do a mashup? The spices for pumpkin and zucchini bread are so similar, it seems like a marriage made in heaven. And, I’ve been getting a lot of zucchini in my weekly produce box from Full Circle lately.

            This version came out perfectly moist. Make sure you squeeze the excess water out of your shredded zucchini. Just press between paper towels before adding to the mixture. I used this kind of grater to prepare the zucchini:

            Play with the sugar to meet your tastes. I’ve tried it with 2 cups and it’s perfect for folks who don’t like their quick breads too sweet. I prefer it with 2 1/2 or even 3 cups of sugar.

            This recipe makes 2 loaves!

            Pumpkin Zucchini Bread
            Pumpkin Zucchini Bread

            Pumpkin Zucchini Bread
             
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            My two favorite quick breads - in one!
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            Recipe type: Bread
            Serves: 20
            Ingredients
            • 3 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour
            • 1 cup whole wheat flour
            • 2 tsp salt
            • 3 tsp baking powder
            • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
            • 1 tsp ground ginger
            • ⅛ tsp ground cloves
            • ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
            • 2½ cups granulated sugar
            • 2 sticks butter, softened
            • 4 eggs
            • 1 cup milk
            • 1½ cups grated zucchini (about 2 medium zucchini)
            • 1 15 oz can of pureed pure pumpkin
            Instructions
            1. Preheat the oven to 350˚F and spray 2 9-inch loaf pans with cooking spray.
            2. Mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl (including the sugar).
            3. In the bowl of a large standup mixer, cream the butter. Then add the eggs, one at a time, and beat until fully incorporated. Add the milk and beat until mixed. Add the pumpkin and zucchini and mix on medium until blended.
            4. Take bowl away from standup mixer. Add bowl of dry ingredients and stir with a wooden spoon until all is moistened. Do not overmix.
            5. Bake for 45 - 60 minutes or until top is golden brown and a knife inserted comes out clean. Allow to cool for at least 10 minutes before removing from the pan.

             

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              Hazelnut Pumpkin Bars

                Hazelnut Pumpkin Bars
                Hazelnut Pumpkin Bars

                It’s the 4th anniversary of StreamingGourmet today! Celebrate by watching some classic pumpkin and Halloween videos in StreamingGourmet’s video collections.

                It’s time for another pumpkin blogging binge at StreamingGourmet. You see, I’m a little pumpkin obsessed and even more, Halloween obsessed, so this won’t be the first time I publish a slew of pumpkin recipes in October. There’s always something new to try with pumpkin, so check back often over the next few weeks for pumpkin recipes that are sweet, savory and everything in between.

                This time, I’m starting with pumpkin bars. There is a pumpkin bar recipe that has truly made the internet rounds, usually with pecans. I’ve done some tweaking here to make these my own, including swapping in hazelnuts for pecans. You might also like them with a dolup of whipped cream on top or perhaps with a serving of ice cream. The trick to getting these right is to make sure you give the bars time to set before sprinkling the nut mixture on top. Otherwise, the nuts will just sink to the bottom.

                In this recipe, you’ll need to chop hazelnuts. I found my little mini-prep Cuisinart to be a champ. Click through to find it on Amazon:

                 

                Hazelnut Pumpkin Bars
                 
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                It's like pumpkin pie in a bar.
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                Recipe type: Dessert
                Serves: 18-21
                Ingredients
                • 1 cup all-purpose flour
                • ½ cup old-fashioned oats
                • ½ cup packed brown sugar
                • ½ cup butter, softened
                • ¾ cup granulated sugar
                • 2 (15 oz.) cans Pure Pumpkin
                • 2 (12 oz.) cans Evaporated Milk
                • 4 large eggs
                • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
                • 1 tsp ground ginger
                • ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
                • ¼ tsp ground cloves
                • 1 tsp salt
                • ½ cup hazelnuts, chopped
                • ¼ cup packed brown sugar
                • 2 Tbsp butter, softened
                Instructions
                1. Preheat oven to 350° F.
                2. Combine flour, oats, and brown sugar in a medium bowl. Cut in the butter and mix until crumbly. Press into the bottom of an ungreased 13 x 9-inch baking pan.
                3. Bake for 15 minutes.
                4. In the bowl of a standup mixer, beat together the granulated sugar, pumpkin, evaporated milk, eggs and spices. Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes until frothy. Pour over crust.
                5. Bake for 25 minutes. While the bars are baking, toast the hazelnuts in a dry sauté pan over medium heat until they start to turn dark brown. Toss them around to ensure they are toasted on all sides. Chop hazelnuts in a small food processor. Combine chopped hazelnuts and brown sugar in small bowl. Cut in the butter and mix until crumbly. Sprinkle hazelnut topping over filling. Continue baking for 15 to 25 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Cut into bars.

                Hazelnut Pumpkin Bars
                Hazelnut Pumpkin Bars
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