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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 pumpkins 197g

Recipe makes 15 pumpkins)

Calories 323
Calories from Fat 172 (53%)
Amount Per Serving %DV
Total Fat 19.2g 29%
Saturated Fat 6.5g 32%
Monounsaturated Fat 7.7g
Polyunsaturated Fat 3.8g
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 16mg 5%
Sodium 162mg 6%
Potassium 169mg 4%
Total Carbohydrate 35.2g 11%
Dietary Fiber 1.5g 6%
Sugars 32.0g
Protein 6.5g 13%

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Peanut Butter Pumpkins

Recipe #39945 | 40 min | 40 min prep | add private note
Sue L

By: Sue L
Sep 10, 2002

Be a nut and putter your bumpkins. Have your own pumpkin patch right in your kitchen. After reading Melanie's helpful review, I thought it best to emphasize that you should add sugar to the dough until it is very stiff and leave it at that.

15 pumpkins (change servings and units)

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 1
    Melt butter in a large bowl and add a few drops of yellow and red food coloring, until mixture has a nice orange color.
  2. 2
    Add the peanut butter and confectioners sugar and mix together until a doughlike consistency is reached. (This means that when the dough is nice and stiff and it gets hard to add any more sugar, to let it go at that).
  3. 3
    Shape dough into small balls shaped like pumpkins; make ridges on the pumpkins with a toothpick.
  4. 4
    Add a small amount of green decorators icing to the top of each pumpkin for a stem.
  5. 5
    Refrigerate, if desired, to allow pumpkins to firm.
  6. 6
    Serve on a plate lined with toasted coconut and Halloween decorated cookies, if desired; these also look good on top of cupcakes.

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From: Erin Anneliese

On Nov 2, 2009

These were very good and easy to make! However, I used less powdered sugar (13 oz.) and decided to add in 6 finely crushed graham crackers to give a little more texture and crunch. Next time I may finely crush peanuts and add them for crunch instead, or just add more graham crackers. They're tasty for sure, though!

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    From: PickleLover

    On Oct 31, 2009

    These were such a cute idea and so simple! I made them for a halloween treat and everyone enjoyed them, however as you would expect from the ingredients, they are Very sweet, so not meant to be eaten by the dozens or by those with sugar sensitivities For the stems i used a pastry bag with cream cheese frosting colored green. Thanks for the cute idea

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    From: ~*Miss Diggy*~

    On Sep 20, 2002

    VERY VERY YUMMY!! And rich too! lol They are so adorable too...and come to think of it , you could use these at anytime of the year. Christmas, do stars, or a christmas tree. Valentines Day hearts. At Easter make eggs. The possibilities are endless! Thanks Sue!!!

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    From: BestTeenChef

    On Oct 25, 2006

    This was great!!!! I made a gravestone cake for halloween and I put this on it. Instead of using a container of store bought icing, I used Really Easy and Good Buttercream Icing and it worked really well! The only advice I would point of for this recipe is when you are making an orange colour, make it strong as the brown colour of the peanut butter will make the food colouring unnoitceable if you don't use enough. Other than that little incident, the recipe was great for halloween! Thank you!

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