pumpkin patch pumpkin spice truffles;

Take that pumpkin spice bread you made last week and turn it into these adorable pumpkin patch pumpkin spice truffles! It’s officially spooky season, and you need to make these cute and tasty pumpkin spice truffles!

Try making your own pumpkin spice bread; it works great in the filling for these pumpkin spice truffles! If you’re looking for a quicker option, try any store-bought pumpkin bread or even a pumpkin spice cake or muffin. My pumpkin spice bread is denser than a cake or muffin will be, so letting the softer items sit out and be just a touch stale may help. You’ll add back the moisture with pumpkin purée and icing. Blitzed cookie crumbs could also work well (for example, I use a similar technique for gingerbread truffles).

Make your own pumpkin spice bread for the filling makes for delicious truffles, but you can always used a storebought pumpkin cake or muffin instead.

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Of course, if you don’t want to make an entire loaf of pumpkin spice bread because that sounds like a lot of work, this recipe will work with any pumpkin baked good. For something softer like cake or a muffin, a little bit stale or a couple days old is actually better. You’ll add moisture with pumpkin purée and the icing and you want the truffle filling to hold as a nice ball so that you can coat them in orange chocolate.

It’s best to coat these pumpkin spice truffles at room temperature. If your filling is a bit too soft you can refrigerate or freeze it to make it hold up better to coating. The downside to this method is that it can affect how your chocolate sets. Because you warm the chocolate to melt it for coating consistency, it’s obviously warm.

When it comes in contact with the cold truffles it will set fast, and can crack as the cold filling expands as it comes to room temperature. Double coating your pumpkin spice truffles can help with that, but also may make thick shells. Dipping cold balls into your chocolate will also bring down the temperature so you may need to remelt or keep it warm to get through the whole batch.

Use candy melts for the bright orange coating and green vines. They’re easily accessible at many craft stores or groceries, and they’ll give you big bold, bright colors.

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To get the bright orange color, you’ll want to use candy melts. While not the highest on the “fancy” chocolate scale, candy melts are a great option for coating and bright, fun colors. You can color your own white chocolate but in my opinion, it’s a lot of work and takes some research. If you do want to color your own chocolate, you’ll need oil-based coloring. Water-based food coloring will seize your chocolate. I won’t get into it here because candy melts are accessible and very easy! And colorful.

If you find your candy melts too thick for coating, add a bit of vegetable shortening or coconut oil to thin it out.

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Optionally, you can also grab some green candy melts if you want to add some decorative vines, or pipe your own green leaves. I found these green leaf candies at Michael’s and they’re the perfect size for your little pumpkin spice truffles.

For extra ambiance, make a little “pumpkin patch” for your truffles to grown in! Hence pumpkin patch pumpkin spice cookies. Basically you’ll make an easy cup of dirt and then rest your truffle pumpkins on top. You’re essentially making a cup of dirt. Make chocolate pudding according to package instructions. Layer crushed-up sandwich cookies throughout the pudding and add a generous heap on top of your pudding-filled dish. Then set the pumpkin spice truffles gently on top.

For extra ambiance, make a little “pumpkin patch” for your truffles to grow in!

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With some chocolate pudding and chocolate sandwich cookie crumbs you have yourself a cute little resting ground for these pumpkin spice truffles. If you want to add to the ambiance, pipe your green vines onto your pumpkins, but then continue them across the dirt. Or make little tombstones using milano cookies and stud the ground with some extra spooky treats like candy bones or monster eyes!

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• For my chocolate lovers out there, hit up these Halloween mash cookies! Chocolate chewy cookies chock full of white chocolate chips, pumpkin spice chips, and macadamia nuts for texture.