The Magical Ingredients for a Wholesome Life From the Heart of my Home: Pumpkin Shaped Pumpkin Dinner Rolls

These soft, buttery, pumpkin shaped pumpkin rolls are an amazing roll for any meal. They taste great as such, with a smear of butter, it tastes like heaven! They are great with soups and stews as well as with chai.

These rolls are made using pumpkin puree. Canned or homemade pumpkin puree works.The pumpkin puree gives the color and flavor to the bread. Make sure it is not pumpkin pie filling. I ahve used bread machine for making the dough and the dough can be made by traditional methods too.

These rolls can be made without shaping them to pumpkins. They are amazing regular rolls too! But when shaped like pumpkins, they add to the beauty and presentation. Shaping them is not too difficult. After the first proving, divide the dough, and tie each portion of dough with thread dipped in oil to give the shape when they prove for the second time. Dipping in oil is essential to peel them off easily after baking. A pecan halve or a cinnamon stick can be used as the stalk after the roll is baked and cooled.

The rolls are perfect for Thanksgiving dinner or for Halloween parties too! These cute little pumpkin breads are sure to catch the attention when served for any occasion. And they taste divine too! Slow cooker Apple butter and Cranberry Jam are perfect schmears for these rolls.

Just like this pumpkin rolls, these Whole wheat rolls are amazing for any meal and is made with 100% whole wheat flour. Pumpkin, Paneer, and Cranberry Rolls and Tangzhong Pumpkin Cimnnamon buns are amazing pumpkin based yeasted rolls perfect for breakfast or a snack.

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. Follow our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated each month on this home page. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. This month the theme is "Dinner rolls". I am sharing these adorable and soft pumpkin shaped pumkin rolls and this could be a great addition to the Thanksgiving Menu!

I am also linking this to Happiness is Homemade, Sundays on SIlverado, and What's For Dinner.

UPDATE: This post was featured on Sundays on Silverado #67!

Ingredients

Makes 12 rolls

Bread flour - 2 and 3/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons

Salt - 1 tsp

Sugar - 3 tbsp

Pumpkin puree -1/2 cup

Milk - 1/2 cup

Butter - 6 tbsp

Active dry yeast - 2 and 1/4 tsp

Pecan - 6 whole or 12 halves

A little flour for dusting

a litle oil

Thick thread - 12 pieces of 22-in long

Method

Add all the ingredients in bread maker and set it in dough cycle.

Once the dough is ready, punch, roll, and knead for 5 minutes and shape to a ball.

Divide the dough into 12 equal portions. Take a piece of thread, dip in oil or smear a little oil. Place the dough on the thread halfway exactly in length. Make criss-cross wrap four times. Repeat the same with therest of the dough portions.

Place it on a tray. Cover with a kitchen towel and let it rise for 30 minutes. When the dough proves, it takes the shape of a pumpkin because of the tied thread. Preeat the oven to 375 degrees F.