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Harry Potter Pumpkin Pasties
Imagine you’re headed off to your first year at Hogwarts, an outsider. Alone. You, naturally, decide to stuff your face with all the mars bars you can find, but when the food trolley comes, there are no Mars bars to be found. Instead, you satisfy that sweet freedom you’re feeling with a bit of everything they have to offer there on the Hogwarts Express: Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans, Cauldron Cakes and Chocolate Frogs and, of course, Pumpkin Pasties.
Names like the meat pie, these pasties are instead filled with pumpkin and spice and everything nice. They are the perfect hand-held treat for a Harry Potter Party this Halloween.
Harry Potter Hogwarts Express Pumpkin Pasties
2 cups pumpkin puree, canned or homemade and strained
¾ cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup evaporated milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ginger
¼ teaspoon allspice
¼ teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
½ cup chopped pecans (optional)
pie crust pastry for a double crust 9″ pie
powdered sugar (optional)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. In a large mixing bowl mix together pumpkin puree, sugar, eggs, evaporated milk, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, salt and nutmeg until smooth. Stir in pecans if desired. Grease a medium casserole dish and pour in the pumpkin mix. Bake at 400 degrees F for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F and continue baking for 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
Roll our pie crust and cut out 4″ circles. Spoon 1-2 tablespoons of the cooled pumpkin pie filling into the crusts. Fold crust over to form a semicircle and seal using fork tines around the edge to press edges together. Repeat until all the pie crust is used.
Place on a parchment- or Silpat-lined baking sheet. Bake at 400 degrees until lightly browned, about 7-10 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool slightly. Serve warm or cooled. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired.
Makes 20 pumpkin pasties.
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[...] guests to the Hogwarts Express and serving them up a collection of treats from the food trolley. A pumpkin pasty or two, a few of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans and then send them off to [...]
Harry Potter Party: Halloween Time | The Family Kitchen commented on Oct 13 10 at 1:07 am[...] this to get a thicker purée if desired. I use this in all my pumpkin recipes, from tarts, to pasties, to breads. I have a few new ones I’m excited to be sharing with you as well. I collect [...]
Homemade Pumpkin Purée: Can the Can | Food for My Family commented on Oct 23 10 at 9:38 pm[...] Potter Halloween Recipes Everything from licorice wands and cockroach clusters to pumpkin pasties and chocolate-bottom tarts. These Hogwarts treats will have muggles everywhere dreaming of the [...]
Halloween Recipes and Party Food Ideas | The Family Kitchen commented on Oct 26 10 at 11:16 am[...] made Pumpkin Pasties, Cockroach Clusters and Licorice Wands! How [...]
Harry Potter Snitch Cupcakes and Food | Hoosier Homemade commented on Nov 19 10 at 11:41 ambridget {bake at 350} commented on Oct 12 10 at 10:42 amLove pumpkin, love Happy Potter…will have to try these! :)
TidyMom commented on Oct 12 10 at 10:47 amMy girls are HUGE HP fans……and LOVE anything pumpkin!! I’ll have to make these for them!!
Amber @ Bluebonnetsandbrownies.com commented on Oct 12 10 at 11:09 amYou know what I find really funny about Pumpkin pasties? In the UK, pumpkin until very recently was not considered food. You can’t get it in cans, and people look at you funny when you wax on poetic about pumpkin pie, pumpkin scones, pumpkin spice lattes.. So when JK put pumpkin juice and pumpkin pasties in her books, it actually thrilled me. And I think, not coincidentally, pumpkin popularity has risen in the UK ever since.
Katie commented on Oct 14 10 at 11:00 amThat’s a pumpkin empanada. Never realized when reading the books that that’s what they were. I thought they were more cake-like.
Leoma Zidek commented on May 05 11 at 3:07 pmI was very encouraged to find this site. I wanted to thank you for this special read. I definitely savored every little bit of it and I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post.
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