Sweet Pumpkin Buns

• Vegan

• Produce

  • 3/4 cup Pumpkin puree

• Refrigerated

  • 3/4 cup Nondairy milk

• Baking & Spices

  • 1/4 tsp Allspice
  • 2 tsp Cinnamon
  • 4 Cinnamon sticks
  • 1/8 tsp Clove
  • 3 1/4 cups Flour
  • 1/4 tsp Nutmeg
  • 1/4 tsp Sea salt
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract, pure
  • 1 tsp Yeast

• Oils & Vinegars

  • 1/4 cup Oil

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Description

Ingredients

• ¾ cup nondairy milk
• ½ cup sugar (or sweetener of choice)
• 1 teaspoon yeast
• ¾ cup pumpkin purée
• ¼ cup oil (any neutral oil, I used a combination of coconut and sunflower)
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
• ¼ teaspoon allspice
• ⅛ teaspoon clove
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• ¼ teaspoon sea salt
• 3¼ cups flour
• 4 cinnamon sticks, broken in half

Directions

• In a small saucepan over medium heat, bring the nondairy milk and the sugar to a simmer. You just want to dissolve the sugar, so once it dissolves, remove from heat. Remove ¼ cup of this mixture and set it aside in a small bowl for later. Add the greater amount of the mixture to a bowl of a mixer and let it cool down until its just warm.
• When this milk mixture has cooled enough, add to it the yeast, pumpkin purée, oil, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, vanilla and salt. Turn the mixer on low to incorporate the ingredients for around 1 minute. Now add the flour and mix until throughly combined. I like to use a dough hook attachment for this. Mix it on medium-high for around 3 minutes. The dough may appear a bit tacky, no worries though. Just oil your hands lightly and form it into a ball then oil the inside of the bowl before throwing it back in. Allow it to proof, covered and in a warm spot, for 1 hour.
• After 1 hour, lightly flour your work surface and turn out the dough onto it. Use a knife to cut the dough into 8 equal-sized pieces (cut it like a pizza). Each of these pieces is then kneaded lightly, then rolled into a ball. Hold each ball in one hand while you use a pair of kitchen scissors in the other to cut 8 slits all around. Put each of the sliced balls on a parchment-lined baking sheet and stick half of a cinnamon stick into the center of each one. Twist it slightly to secure it. Cover the trays of pumpkins with damp towels and let them rise again for 30 minutes in a warm location. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
• When they have risen, use a pastry brush to gently brush the surfaces of each pumpkin with that ¼ cup of remaining milk and sugar mixture (from Step 1 above). Dont worry if you dont use all of this glaze. Bake them for 18-22 minutes or until they are golden brown. Remove from oven and cool on a rack thoroughly before eating (they will taste gummy if you eat them just out of the oven). Just remember not to eat the cinnamon stick... :) Enjoy