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Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 30 pieces
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1 cup hulled pepitas
1/4 cup sugar
2/3 cup good quality honey
3 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, plus 2 tablespoons melted for brushing
Cook's Notes
Pepitas, or pumpkin seeds, are available hulled or unhulled at health-food stores. Paper candy cups are available at baking supply stores.
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Pumpkin-Seed Candy
Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 30 pieces
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Pumpkin-Seed Candy
Pumpkin-Seed Candy
Pumpkin-Seed Candy
Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 30 pieces
Recipe Summary
Yield: Makes 30 pieces
Yield: Makes 30 pieces
Makes 30 pieces
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1 cup hulled pepitas
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup good quality honey
- 3 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, plus 2 tablespoons melted for brushing
Directions
Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add pepitas; toast, stirring constantly until seeds pop and become slightly golden, about 3 minutes. Transfer to a bowl to cool.
Place sugar and honey in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring to dissolve sugar, about 3 minutes. Add pepitas, and continue cooking until temperature registers 285 degrees on a candy thermometer, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in cold butter.
Let the mixture cool to 240 degrees, about 4 minutes. Meanwhile, brush the inside of fifteen 1-inch-diameter black paper cups with melted butter, reserving 1 tablespoon. Spoon a scant tablespoon of the honey mixture into each cup. Brush a clean work surface with the remaining butter, and spoon the remaining honey mixture on it so mixture will continue to cool.
When remaining candy is stiff and cool enough to handle, about 6 minutes, cut into 3/4-inch pieces with a greased knife. Put one piece of candy in center of each of fifteen 4-by-4-inch pieces of orange cellophane wrap, gather cellophane at the top, and secure with a twist of a 4 1/2-inch piece of floral wire. Wrap the ends of floral wire around a skewer to form tendrils.
Cook's Notes
Pepitas, or pumpkin seeds, are available hulled or unhulled at health-food stores. Paper candy cups are available at baking supply stores.
Cook’s Notes
Pepitas, or pumpkin seeds, are available hulled or unhulled at health-food stores. Paper candy cups are available at baking supply stores.
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Reviews (14)
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32 Ratings
5 star values:
6
4 star values:
6
3 star values:
10
2 star values:
7
1 star values:
3
Add Rating & Review
32 Ratings
5 star values:
6
4 star values:
6
3 star values:
10
2 star values:
7
1 star values:
3
32 Ratings
5 star values:
6
4 star values:
6
3 star values:
10
2 star values:
7
1 star values:
3
32 Ratings
5 star values:
6
4 star values:
6
3 star values:
10
2 star values:
7
1 star values:
3
- 5 star values:
- 6
- 4 star values:
- 6
- 3 star values:
- 10
- 2 star values:
- 7
- 1 star values:
- 3
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
11/02/2008
You can but pumpkin seeds, i.e. pepitas, already hulled. Even at SuperTarget.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
11/02/2008
hehe yeah. martha! girl! who wants to hull a bunch of pumpkin seeds!?
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
11/01/2008
I also season with chili powder, curry, salt and garlic. My husband even liked them. I baked them at 350 until I could smell them baking.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
11/01/2008
I thought this was supposed to be COOKIE of THE DAY......
lately we seem to be getting candy of the day,
I should spend my days dehusking pumpkin seeds!!!??
Too labor intensive for this baker.l
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
11/01/2008
Corn syrup does not crystalize easily; it is why it is used in soft candies. Corn syrup also has a more intense (sickening) sweetness to it. Corn sugar (fructose) is the most difficult of all sugars to digest. You could make these with other sugars AND you have to know at what point they cook enough water out to crystalize.to give you the right end product. Have fun experimenting!
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
11/01/2008
Hulled pumpkin seeds have the white outside bit removed. Generally the hulled seeds look green. If you use your own pumpkin seeds you'll spend a bunch of time opening each seed and removing the white but yes, you can use them.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
11/01/2008
I have a maple syrup farm and wrote a maple syrup cookbook so I always use maple syrup. Cat K may not have boiled the syrup long enough. I took it to 260, let it cool to 210 and then stirred it until it formed crystals and it worked well...and I did use my own pumpkin seeds from my own jack-o-lantern dried in the oven overnight over the pilot light. The candy was good, but more from the maple than the pumpkin seeds.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
09/20/2008
Actually, i think you could replace honey by corn syrup but i'm not sure...
Hull: The dry outer covering of a fruit, seed, or nut; a husk. So hulled mean that the hull of the seeds have been removed, hope i helped!
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
09/20/2008
Could you use fresh pumpkin seeds from your own pumpkin? I'm not sure what hulled and unhulled means.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
09/20/2008
I don't think that there's a substitute for honey in this recipie. I tried it with maple syrup and the candy was gooey, not good. And as molasses isn't as sweet as honey, it would throw off the balence to this recipie; so don't go with it. Stick with the honey. These totally rock by the way. I added cinamon to some too, and it just made them better.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
09/18/2008
Please could Martha's people tell us when giving recipes if they can be made a week ahead or more or freeze for how long etc. I know by myself I cannot make all my recipes for my party in a few days. This sure would be helpful for all of Martha's recipes. Just thought i would mention this. Made this recipe was great.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
09/18/2008
You could use either of the things you mentioned, also Agave Nectar, Brown Rice Syrup, or Golden Syrup. I'm adding cinnamon and nutmeg to mine to give it a bit of a pumpkin pie flavor.
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
09/18/2008
I love this idea. But, do you think there's a substitution for the honey? Moleasses or maple syrup? Or???
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
09/18/2008
What kind of wrap did they use...where did the Orange celephane and the green curly's come from?
Martha Stewart Member
Rating: Unrated
11/02/2008
You can but pumpkin seeds, i.e. pepitas, already hulled. Even at SuperTarget.
Rating: Unrated
hehe yeah. martha! girl! who wants to hull a bunch of pumpkin seeds!?
Rating: Unrated
11/01/2008
I also season with chili powder, curry, salt and garlic. My husband even liked them. I baked them at 350 until I could smell them baking.
I thought this was supposed to be COOKIE of THE DAY......
lately we seem to be getting candy of the day,
I should spend my days dehusking pumpkin seeds!!!??
Too labor intensive for this baker.l
Corn syrup does not crystalize easily; it is why it is used in soft candies. Corn syrup also has a more intense (sickening) sweetness to it. Corn sugar (fructose) is the most difficult of all sugars to digest. You could make these with other sugars AND you have to know at what point they cook enough water out to crystalize.to give you the right end product. Have fun experimenting!
Hulled pumpkin seeds have the white outside bit removed. Generally the hulled seeds look green. If you use your own pumpkin seeds you'll spend a bunch of time opening each seed and removing the white but yes, you can use them.
I have a maple syrup farm and wrote a maple syrup cookbook so I always use maple syrup. Cat K may not have boiled the syrup long enough. I took it to 260, let it cool to 210 and then stirred it until it formed crystals and it worked well...and I did use my own pumpkin seeds from my own jack-o-lantern dried in the oven overnight over the pilot light. The candy was good, but more from the maple than the pumpkin seeds.
Rating: Unrated
09/20/2008
Actually, i think you could replace honey by corn syrup but i'm not sure...
Hull: The dry outer covering of a fruit, seed, or nut; a husk. So hulled mean that the hull of the seeds have been removed, hope i helped!
Could you use fresh pumpkin seeds from your own pumpkin? I'm not sure what hulled and unhulled means.
I don't think that there's a substitute for honey in this recipie. I tried it with maple syrup and the candy was gooey, not good. And as molasses isn't as sweet as honey, it would throw off the balence to this recipie; so don't go with it. Stick with the honey. These totally rock by the way. I added cinamon to some too, and it just made them better.
Rating: Unrated
09/18/2008
Please could Martha's people tell us when giving recipes if they can be made a week ahead or more or freeze for how long etc. I know by myself I cannot make all my recipes for my party in a few days. This sure would be helpful for all of Martha's recipes. Just thought i would mention this. Made this recipe was great.
You could use either of the things you mentioned, also Agave Nectar, Brown Rice Syrup, or Golden Syrup. I'm adding cinnamon and nutmeg to mine to give it a bit of a pumpkin pie flavor.
I love this idea. But, do you think there's a substitution for the honey? Moleasses or maple syrup? Or???
What kind of wrap did they use...where did the Orange celephane and the green curly's come from?
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