For an easy but decadent dessert, get some Tinder Hearth croissants and dress them up. When you make the delicious and flavorful pumpkin butter ahead of time, this dessert is quickly assembled after your holiday meal. And it will look and taste like you got it at a fancy patisserie in Paris!
On the Ingredients:
- Pumpkins are a highly delicious and nutritious winter squash variety. Unlike other varieties, they aren’t particularly sweet on their own but have been used in sweet preparations predominately. Pumpkin is especially high in vitamin A, which helps with a strong immune system. Aside from vitamins, pumpkins are also high in antioxidants. (Read more about the health benefits.)
- Pumpkin spice , or pumpkin pie spice, is a combination of cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and sometimes allspice (allspice is the “y” of pumpkin spice). Similar combinations have been in use since at least 1796 when Amelia Simmons used them for her “Pompkin” recipes in her book American Cookery. By the 1890s, cookbooks commonly referred to “pumpkin pie spice” as shorthand for this combination.
Recipe Notes and Substitutions:
Pumpkin butter can be made in larger quantities and frozen.
Pumpkin Butter Croissants
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minutesFor an easy but decadent dessert, get some Tinder Hearth croissants and dress them up. When you make the delicious and flavorful pumpkin butter ahead of time, this dessert is quickly assembled after your holiday meal. And it will look and taste like you got it at a fancy patisserie in Paris!
Ingredients
- Pumpkin butter Ingredients:
1 15 oz can of pumpkin puree
1/4 cup brown sugar OR allulose for sugar-free
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/4 tsp salt
- Whipped cream ingredients:
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
2-3 tbsp sugar OR monk fruit for sugar-free
- Other ingredients:
4 Tinder Hearth croissants
Directions
- Combine the pumpkin butter ingredients in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Bring to a simmer and cook for 30 minutes, stirring frequently.
- Allow to cool to room temperature, then store in an airtight container until ready to assemble.
- Combine the heavy cream, cinnamon, vanilla, and sugar in a large mixing bowl (adjust sweetness to preference. Whip using a hand mixer until medium peaks form.
- Slice the croissants in half to make sandwiches. Spread pumpkin butter on the bottom half, then cover with whipped cream. Place the other croissant half on top. Serve and enjoy!
