Eight ways to use up your Canned Pumpkin


I promise.

I promise that, after Thanksgiving, I will put the pumpkin away for the rest of the year (at least as far as blog recipes are concerned).

Until that time, here’s a look back at all of the pumpkin-y goodness with which I’ve bombarded you these last two months:

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Pumpkin Cereal

Come June and July, I will still be eating this breakfast cereal. It is much too delicious to stay away until Fall comes around again.

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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bars

This is a good recipe to bring to parties. The bars always disappear quickly!

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Pumpkin Peanut Butter

Just like regular peanut butter, this recipe is good on toast or muffins, mixed into oatmeal, or just eaten straight from the jar.

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Single-Serving Chocolate-Chip Muffin

Lock your doors and draw the shades. This muffin is not for sharing.

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Pumpkin Cookie Dough Dip

When I brought this to a party, even people who said they didn’t like pumpkin kept coming back for more of this addictive dip.

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Pumpkin Pizookie Pie

A much healthier version of the giant skillet “cookie pizzas” made famous by BJ’s Brewhouse.

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Chocolate Pumpkin-Pie Brownies

Sweet pumpkin, rich chocolate, and creamy vanilla. What more could you possibly ask for? Except maybe a fork. And a napkin.

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Chocolate Stuffed Cookies

Delicious chocolate cookie balls, with a soft pumpkin center.

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Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal

It’s like biting into a warm pumpkin-oatmeal cookie. For breakfast.

Question of the Day:

Do you have any favorite pumpkin recipes?

Feel free to leave links.

I hope you’ll save room for just one more pumpkin recipe on my blog: pumpkin pie! Not just any pumpkin pie, though. After all, this is a chocolate-covered blog…

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90 Comments

  1. Bianca- Vegan Crunk says:

    All of that stuff looks delicious and reminds me that I need to use more pumpkin. My fave pumpkin recipe is the Punk-kin Pasta from La Dolce Vegan. It’s a savory pumpkin pasta sauce made with pumpkin, vegan sausage, and sauteed onions!

  2. Megan says:

    No need to usher out the pumpkin recipes! They are fantastic! You have created an amazing array of recipes with it! However, I do second the above comment about chocolate peppermint cheesecake. That stuff is delicious! Favorite pumpkin recipes…hmm…I love pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin bread, and our pumpkin pie with gingersnap crust. Tonight I am making a lentil, spinach, and pumpkin (kabocha) curry that I am excited about! Pumpkin cheesecake is delicious as is pumpkin ice cream.

  3. Hilliary @ Happily Ever Healthy says:

    Oh how I love pumpkin things right now! ALL these recipes look great!

  4. Claire says:

    You are awesome Katie. Thank you, thank you, thank you for a whole new collection of recipes to try. Your blog makes me happy! You never disappoint. I always looks forward to your posts. (No pressure, or anything…just continue being YOU!) :). Thanks again.

    1. Chocolate-Covered Katie says:

      Aww Claire, thank YOU for such a sweet comment :).

  5. Kit-Kat says:

    I think one of my favorit pumpkin recipes is my mom’s fluffy pumpkin cake, followed by her pumpkin pie.
    Of course, I love all of your pumpkin recipes, and can’t decide which to choose when I have an abundance of pumpkin on hand! 🙂

  6. Anna @ The Guiltless Life says:

    Yay I can’t wait to see how you combine the chocolate and pumpkin in pumpkin pie…mmm! Never too much pumpkin for me :).

  7. Char @ www.charskitchen.ca says:

    I have one (massive!) can of pumpkin left, and I’m trying vigilantly to save it, haha 😛 I’ve bought so much pumpkin this fall! I think I’m going to use it to make your pumpkin cookie dough dip and some mac & cheese for dinner tonight! 😀

  8. Jeffie says:

    I get a can of pumpkin every time I go shopping and that’s twice a week! The truth is I can’t get enough of this stuff during the holidays and thank you so much for posting all these recipes 🙂 I especially loved the pumpkin cream cheese bars.

  9. Dakota says:

    I recently discovered scottish oats (you should try them! SO creamy/fluffy but also good chewiness) and I make an awesome pumpkin oatmeal bowl with just a little added salt, pumpkin, cinnamon, soy milk and almond butter. It doesn’t even need a sweetener!

    1. Chocolate-Covered Katie says:

      I will have to look for them!

  10. Erin says:

    My favorite pumpkin things include pumpkin oatmeal (just mixing in pumpkin to my oats and adding spices… delicious), your single lady pumpkin muffin, and Hungry Girl’s (cookbook) pumpkin enchiladas. They’re super simple: you pretty much just saute some onions and garlic, add pumpkin, I add some cumin, and put them into tortillas with cheese and enchilada sauce. They are awesome! 🙂

    1. Chocolate-Covered Katie says:

      Pumpkin enchiladas?! That sounds so good. Can you believe I’ve never had enchiladas :(. Well, except for some really amazing coconut-kale enchiladas at a restaurant here in Dallas.