Homemade pumpkin candies

We often want to pamper our kids with sweets, but constantly eating store-bought sweets is harmful to health, because they contain a lot of chemical dyes and various “E” additives.

I suggest making homemade pumpkin candies - a tasty, tasty dessert that will amuse your children, and adults will not refuse to try this sweetness.

This wonderful berry is simply unique; you can use it to cook various soups, porridges, bake casseroles in the oven, and for dessert make delicious pumpkin candies at home.

I will share with you some very good recipes for sweets and candied pumpkin. You can add honey, nuts (walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts), oatmeal and cookies to these sweets.

For flavoring use vanilla, cinnamon, ginger or orange zest. This will allow us to prepare amazing desserts with a delicate taste and spicy aroma.

Making healthy sweets with your own hands is very simple and interesting, the main thing is to create it with love and take into account the tastes of your loved ones. I am sure that they will like homemade pumpkin candies even more than store-bought ones.

Sweets “Warm pumpkin”

The taste of these pumpkin candies is reminiscent of flower honey with a pleasant spicy aroma and a light nutty color.

Ready pumpkin puree - 200 g;
milk - 1 glass;
butter - 50 g;
sugar - 1 glass;
ground walnuts (you can take a mixture of hazelnuts or almonds) - 100 g;
vanilla sugar - 1 teaspoon;
ground ginger - a little bit, on the edge of a knife;
cinnamon - half a teaspoon;
1/4 teaspoon salt;
cocoa - 1 tablespoon.

From this quantity of goods we will get 24 candies.

Let's prepare pumpkin puree: take 400 grams of pumpkin, cut into pieces (do not cut off the skin). Then place the pieces on a baking sheet and put them in the oven for baking. Bake at 200 degrees until the pumpkin is soft.
Let the baked pumpkin cool slightly and remove the skin from it, then create a puree using a blender. If you don’t have a blender, then mash the pulp well with a fork.
Place the finished puree in a thick-bottomed saucepan, add milk, sugar, vanilla sugar, a little salt and mix everything well. Place on high heat and bring the mixture to a boil.
After boiling, reduce the heat to low and cook for 35 - 40 minutes, stirring occasionally.
When the pumpkin mixture has boiled down well and begins to caramelize, you need to stir constantly so as not to burn. The mass will be ready when it looks like marmalade and just lags behind the bottom of the saucepan.
Remove the saucepan from the heat, add butter, a third of the ground nuts, ginger and cinnamon, mix everything well until smooth.
Transfer the candy mixture into a bowl, let it cool and put it in the refrigerator for two hours.
Mix crushed nuts with cocoa.
We form balls from the cooled candy mass - one teaspoon is one piece of candy. Roll any ball perfectly in a mixture of cocoa and nuts.

Place the finished candies on a dish and store in the refrigerator.

Pumpkin candies “Sweet tooth”

I offer another delicious recipe for pumpkin sweets, you will certainly like them.

Pumpkin pulp - 200 g;
butter - 50 g;
cookies (you can take any) - 150 g;
one orange, 50 grams of walnuts;
natural honey - three tablespoons;
coconut flakes - 50 g;
cinnamon - optional;
cognac - 30 g; if you are preparing sweets for children, do not add alcohol.

Peel the pumpkin, wash and cut into pieces. Pour water into them in a saucepan and boil until tender, so that they are soft.
Drain all the water from the finished pumpkin, let it cool slightly and make puree using a blender or masher. You can rub the boiled pumpkin through a sieve.
Grind oatmeal in a coffee grinder to flour. You can use oat bran or oat flour instead of cereal.
Grind the cookies into small crumbs. Instead of cookies, you can use waffles, sponge cake, vanilla crackers or regular gingerbread cookies.
Add the crushed oatmeal to the cooled pumpkin puree and mix everything well. Leave for 30 minutes so that the oatmeal swells and absorbs the pumpkin juice.
After this, add the cookie crumbs and mix well.
Then add honey to the candy mass. If you are allergic to honey, you can replace it with condensed milk or maple syrup. You can also use linden honey because it is hypoallergenic.
Then add perfectly softened butter and cognac, which can be replaced with whiskey, rum or gin. If the dessert is being prepared for a children's table, then alcohol should be excluded from the recipe.
Stir the mixture until smooth and add the crushed walnuts into small pieces.
Mix everything well again and add the zest of 1 orange, grated on a medium grater.
Again, mix the candy mass well and put it in the freezer for half an hour, while you need to stir it for every 10 minutes. This is necessary so that the mass hardens so that candies - balls - can be formed from it. If the mixture seems very thick to you, you can dilute it a little with orange juice.
Once the candy dough has frozen, form small balls from it and roll them in coconut flakes. Place our dessert on a tray and place it in the refrigerator for one hour.

Quick candied pumpkin

Candied fruits, another type of homemade sweets made from pumpkin. Children really like this tasty and healthy dish; it can completely replace store-bought sweets.

Now I will tell you how to prepare candied pumpkin quickly and very simply.

Pumpkin pulp - 1 kilogram;
lemon or orange - 1 piece;
ground cinnamon or sweet powder;
water - 200 ml.

To make this dessert, let's take a sweet (porridge) variety of pumpkin. Peel it and cut it into small pieces.
Make syrup from water and sugar. Add to the syrup, cut into pieces a lemon along with the peel (the lemon can be replaced with three grams of citric acid).
Boil the pumpkin pieces in syrup until soft. Cooking time approximately 10 minutes. We will cook in two batches, because we won’t get very much syrup.
Place the boiled pumpkin pieces on a baking sheet, which must be lined with baking paper in advance.
We dry our semi-finished candied fruits in an oven preheated to 130 degrees. Drying time is about 1 hour.
Take the finished sweets out of the oven, cool and sprinkle with sweet powder or cinnamon.

Candied pumpkin with cinnamon and orange

If you have a little more time, you can make candied pumpkin and orange and make them jelly-like and transparent.

One medium sized pumpkin;
sugar - 1 kilogram;
some large orange;
two buds of cloves, two sticks of cinnamon;
water - 650 ml.

Wash the pumpkin well, remove the skin, seeds and cut the pulp into medium-sized cubes.
Place the water and sugar on low heat and cook the syrup.
Place the pumpkin pieces in the hot syrup and boil for 5 minutes.
Then remove the pumpkin from the syrup using a slotted spoon and cool to room temperature.
Add sliced orange, cinnamon and cloves to the syrup, bring it to a boil again, put pumpkin cubes in it and boil for another 5 minutes.
Then remove the pumpkin from the syrup, cool it and boil it in the syrup again. We repeat this function 4 times so that we get translucent blanks for candied fruits.
At the end of the cooking process, remove the pumpkin pieces from the pan, let cool and place them on a baking sheet previously lined with baking paper.
Dry the candied fruits in the oven until ready and transfer them to a glass container, tightly closing the lid.

In the cool season, candied fruits and pumpkin sweets are a wonderful opportunity to pamper yourself and your loved ones with a sweet dessert, without harm to your figure and health.

These sweets are great to serve with tea; you and your children will definitely like them.

Pumpkin dishes, Candies

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Pumpkin dishes

Candied pumpkin with lemon is a necessary and tasty dessert.

Pumpkin and nut candies

If you suddenly feel the autumn blues, if you urgently need a healing session of food therapy, remember the cheerful pumpkin and its bright orange outfit! It's no coincidence that she dressed up like that!

What helps with a bad mood? What helps from the lack of sunlight? That's right, chocolate! And orange, the wonderful color of pumpkin, is still alive. It is these ingredients that will become the main ones in the recipe for the beautiful autumn-style candies that you see on this page. Be sure to prepare a portion of these sweets and don’t even think that you might not like them!

The base of pumpkin candies is biscuit, it is reminiscent of the “Potato” cake, which millions of people adore. The sponge cake is a beautiful base for revealing the gentle taste of pumpkin, the catchy taste of walnuts and the soothing taste of milk chocolate. You can slightly edit some elements of the recipe to suit your needs. For example, walnuts can be successfully replaced with hazelnuts or almonds, and chocolate can be taken both dark and snow-white. In addition, the option based on chocolate biscuit is interesting.

Ingredients

sponge cake 300 g
pumpkin (puree) 110 g
cream cheese 100 g
walnuts 40 g
sweet powder 20 g
milk chocolate 2 bars

Manufacturing

Place the walnuts in a dry frying pan and, stirring, lightly brown them. This will give the dessert the most intense flavor.

Place the broken biscuit into the blender bowl.

Grind the biscuit into crumbs, and then add nuts to this crumb and beat everything together again.

Cut the pumpkin into small pieces and bake in the microwave until soft. You can also boil the pumpkin or bake it in the oven.

Thoroughly puree the pumpkin in a blender until smooth.
Mix pumpkin puree with cream cheese and sweet powder.

The result will be a mass resembling cream.

Add aromatic biscuit crumbs to the pumpkin cream.

Stir the mixture thoroughly. It must be affectionate, but at the same time dense enough to make it comfortable to sculpt.

Roll the resulting mass into balls the size of a walnut. Place the candies in the freezer for half an hour.

Melt the milk chocolate. This is very comfortable to create in a glass.

Then carefully dip each candy into the chocolate. Do this by placing the candies on toothpicks, skewers or a fork.

Due to the fact that the candies were frozen before this manipulation, the chocolate will quickly set on them.
Wait until the chocolate on the candies hardens, and you can enjoy!

Pumpkin candies (I can’t believe that not so long ago my family didn’t love pumpkin)

I can’t believe that it wasn’t that long ago that my family didn’t love pumpkin! The final milestone on the path to recognition of this plant was specifically candies. To be honest, I came up with the recipe myself. More precisely, I was hooked by one recipe, but my family rejected the final result. Later, I tried a different method to create candy from pumpkin. And again there is trouble. The family refused to even try: the sweets smelled so much like pumpkin. But I don't want to give up! And because both the first and second methods of making sweets had their own aspects, I decided to combine them. What came of it? Simply amazing sweets that taste just as good as oriental ones. And what a beauty.

Ingredients:

Pumpkin – 650g;
Sugar - from 1/2 to 2/3 cup (depending on what you like best);
Juice of half a lemon;
Coriander – 1 tbsp;
Cloves – 2 pcs.

In addition, some other ingredients will be useful. But this is up to taste or looking at the availability of suitable goods at home. As the recipe progresses, I’ll tell you what you can use.

Step-by-step recipe with photos

We clean the pumpkin from seeds and veins, remove the skin.

Cut the cooked pumpkin into pieces.

Place the pumpkin pieces in a saucepan. Add sugar (2-3 tbsp).

Extract juice from lemon. The most convenient way is not to squeeze the juice with your hands, but to create it using a juicer: you will get quite a lot of juice.

Pour all this juice into a saucepan. Lemon will give the pumpkin a great, most tender taste.

Add coriander and freshly ground cloves.

Fill the pumpkin with water and put it on fire. cook for about half an hour until the pumpkin becomes soft.

We puree the roast pumpkin in a blender.

Let's taste the pumpkin. if there is not enough sugar in it, add it. Sugar should be added to the pumpkin puree in parts. Stir and let the sugar melt into the warm puree. And later check the product again for sweetness. Need more sugar? Let's add! If you are happy with the result, it is better to slow down. The fact is that in the process of evaporating the water, the mass will automatically become even sweeter.

Place the saucepan on the fire and constantly stirring the mass, evaporate all the liquid from it. As a result, the result should be a compacted mass so that it is almost like jam.

I evaporated the pumpkin puree for 2 hours and did it in 3 batches. And look what a thick mass I came out with: I swiped it with a spatula, but the mass did not fill the “path”, it remained there.

We cover the mold with parchment and distribute the mass over the entire width of the mold, the layer thickness is about 1-1.5 cm. Let the mixture sit for about 6 hours.

It so happened that my mass stood for almost 12 hours. During this period of time, the mass compacted and froze. If I had let it sit a little longer, I would have had a churchkhela (although the layer of mass would have needed to be created thinner).

And now here is what I was talking about. Sprinkle the mixture with nuts or chocolate chips on top. If you have coconut or sesame seeds at home, that’s great too. You can even sprinkle with chopped raisins or sprinkle with sweet powder.

I have coconut flakes.

We cut the mass into 2 halves to make it easier to work with. Roll one half into a roll.

We cut this roll into pieces and envelop each part in chocolate chips. If you don’t have chocolate at home, you can use everything from the list that I mentioned above: coconut flakes, ground nuts, sesame seeds, sugar or sweet sand.

Place the candies in the refrigerator for half an hour for final fixation. And you can treat your family!