I love the change from summer to fall. It is one of the best seasons for baking.
Fall offers so many different flavor inspirations. Pumpkin spice being one of the most iconic.
Pumpkins have a great flavor and consistency that is very versatile. You can use pumpkin in any of your favorite baked goods, or in your favorite savory entrees. Soups, stuffed pumpkins, breads, cakes, and ice cream are just a few items that come to mind.
And my most recent favorite is pumpkin butter. That’s right, pumpkin butter. It’s just like apple butter, but pumpkin.
It is great in place of anything you would normally eat with jam or jelly. It’s also highly recommended as an ice cream topping.
The spicy sweet combination in the butter is addicting and this is one recipe everyone should add to their favorites. This butter also makes a great holiday gift.
Making the butter is really easy, and the recipe doesn’t call for many ingredients…you probably have most of them already!
Pumpkin Butter
Adapted from Smitten Kitchen
Ingredients:
- A 29-ounce can of organic pumpkin puree
- ¾ cup organic apple juice (I used apple cider)
- 2 TSP ground ginger
- ½ TSP ground cloves
- 2 TSP ground cinnamon
- 1 TSP ground nutmeg
- 1 ½ cups organic sugar
*If you don’t have pumpkin in a can available, you can easily make your own puree.
To Make the Pumpkin Butter
1. Scoop the pumpkin into a medium sized pot.
2. Add in your apple juice (or cider), spices and sugar. Mix it all together.
3. Bring your butter mixture to a boil. Once boiling, reduce to a simmer over a low temperature. Simmer for 30 minutes, stir frequently so the bottom of your mixture doesn’t burn.
4. This is what it should look like once finished… Allow to cool for 5-10 minutes then pour into jars. You can either process or bring to room temperature and store in the fridge.
About bigfatbaker
I have never made a compound butter in my life, but have wanted to get on the horse for at least a year now. This may have done it …
Correction: Not compound butter, but flavored butter-ish … well, you know what I mean.
Do it! It’s easy and worth it for the amount it makes. I’d love to hear how it goes!
Lovely blog. The name caught my attention – seen it on Evan’s. Pumpkin is insanely popular now!
Thank you so much! Yeah, I have noticed that too, pumpkin is everywhere. My grocery store was even sold out for a few days, crazy!
I know! I might have to stock up “just in case”…;)
Mmmm..I have never had pumpkin butter before, but I can only imagine how tasty it is.
I need to make this soon!
Christina – you should definitely try it! I think I might like this more then apple butter now. It’s fabulous on pumpkin pancakes too.
This sounds delicious! Like pumpkin pie in a jar!
This sounds GREAT Erin! I have a pie pumpkin I just picked up from my winter farm CSA and I will make some of this with it. Great idea! Thanks for linking it too!