Pumpkin Dinner Rolls
These pumpkin dinner rolls are soft, light, and fluffy. They're buttery and bursting with pumpkin flavor, and they look so adorable. We're showing you 1 dough recipe that be used in 3 different ways. Perfect to serve in your Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas dinner.
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 16 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
- 2+1/2 cup bread flour
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin puree (, room temperature)
- 1 large egg (, room temperature)
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter (, melted)
- 1/3 cup full-fat milk (, warm)
- 2+1/4 tsp instant yeast
- 1 egg (, for brushing)
- some melted butter (, for brushing)
Instructions
- 1
Add bread flour, pumpkin puree, egg, salt, brown sugar, honey, melted butter, warm milk, and instant dry yeast into a stand mixer bowl. Knead for 10 minutes using a hook attachment. You'll have a soft and sticky dough.
- 2
Oil your hands to prevent the dough from sticking. Form it into a ball and place it in a greased bowl. Cover the bowl tightly with cling film and leave it to rise until it doubles its size, for more or less 1-1.5 hours.
- 3
Place the dough on a lightly floured kitchen top, and knead it briefly into a thick disk. Slice it into 16 equal pieces. Form each piece into a ball, and cover them with a cling film to prevent them from drying out.
- 4
Take one ball and tie it loosely with 4 kitchen strings to get 8 sections. Don't tie too tight. Flour your hands to prevent the dough from sticking as it's quite soft. See other ways to shape these pumpkin dinner rolls above in the post.
- 5
Place the pumpkin-shaped balls on a baking tray lined with parchment paper, with some space in between. Cover the pumpkin bread rolls loosely with cling film and leave them to slightly puff up, not until they double their size.
- 6
Brush them with some egg wash and bake in a preheated oven at 350ºF(175ºC), on the middle rack, for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
- 7
Remove from the oven and while still hot, brush them with some melted butter. Leave to cool completely.
- 8
Cut slightly into between the pumpkins' sections with a knife, to make removing the strings easier since they tend to get buried inside the buns. This also makes our pumpkin dinner rolls look neater, without having the pieces of the buns tearing out as we pull out the strings. Don't cut in too deep, just enough for the strings to come out.
- 9
Cut the top string knots with a scissor and gently pull the string out. Enjoy!