Some recipes involve hollowing out fresh pumpkin and roasting or slow cooking for hours, but this little short-cut version will give you rich, flavorful pumpkin butter right on your stove top in under 30 minutes. Now you might be thinking, “Great, Sara. But what the heck do I do with pumpkin butter?” Well. First of all, it’s like autumn in a jar. So there’s that. It’s fantastic spread on buttered toast, pancakes, waffles, and french toast. Put a dollop over this baked overnight French toast, or spread in between delicate crepes. It’s also amazing swirled into creamy cheesecake, vanilla ice cream, or warm oatmeal. So now that you are salivating, ready to make it? You just dump everything in a pot here. Couldn’t be easier. Well it could if you somehow got someone else to make this for you and deliver it. That would be way easier.
I suggest using real maple syrup here, the good stuff, but that’s not totally necessary. And you can adjust the spices as you wish, it’s 100% customizable. I happen to love nutmeg and cloves so I tend to go heavier on those. Other people will hurt you if you add too much nutmeg to anything cough Kate cough cough Stir everything up and it looks pretty ordinary.
But after simmering for 20-30 minutes, some of the liquid evaporates and the flavors are concentrated. Look how thick and creamy it’s become. Kind of like spreadable pumpkin pie.
I love keeping this in a little jam jar in the fridge.
And it makes such a sweet fall gift.
Throw a little tag on there and tie it to a box of pancake mix and you’ll knock someone’s socks off. Speaking of cute tags- if you follow me on Instagram you’ve seen my hand-lettering posts. I have a blog post all about it, here, if you’re interested in getting started! I love hand-lettering gift tags for goodies; one of my favorite things to write on! I posted a photo over the weekend on Instagram to share that some of my most favorite hand-lettering designers just released an amazing course that I love. You can see all the info by clicking here. If you use my code OURBESTBITES10, you will save 10%. If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to write like this, I highly recommend this class. I went through it this weekend and it’s fantastic! Anyway, back to pumpkin buttah’
It’s delicious. And it’s going to show up in a recipe next week that you’re going to love!
