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Cheese Bread Leaves and Pumpkins for Thanksgiving

November 7, 2013 This post may contain affiliate links.

Dress up your dinner rolls for Thanksgiving this year by making these beautiful Cheese Bread Leaves and Pumpkins. They are quick and easy to make and look amazing on your holiday table.

Dress up your dinner rolls for Thanksgiving this year by making these beautiful Cheese Bread Leaves and Pumpkins. They are quick and easy to make and look amazing on your holiday table.

Do you have bread with your Thanksgiving meal?

We do, and one of my favorite recipes to make for the holiday is for a quick cheese bread. I just toss some shredded cheese in a bread pan, mix a handful of ingredients together, pour the batter into a pan, sprinkle on more cheese, then bake. It takes minutes to get it into the oven.

Just as quickly as it’s made, the smell of fresh bread is wafting through my kitchen. The only thing that’s hard about this, is waiting for the bread to come out of the oven.

Dress up your dinner rolls for Thanksgiving this year by making these beautiful Cheese Bread Leaves and Pumpkins. They are quick and easy to make and look amazing on your holiday table.

As the bread bakes the cheese melts and almost caramelizes creating this amazing crust. The loaf is dense, but soft, and the flavor goes nicely with turkey, mashed potatoes, and gravy on Thanksgiving Day.

Dress up your dinner rolls for Thanksgiving this year by making these beautiful Cheese Bread Leaves and Pumpkins. They are quick and easy to make and look amazing on your holiday table.

Last fall, I made some Crescent Roll Leaves. That recipe has been very popular. So, for my first recipe for this holiday season, I thought I’d take that idea and make it even better. I used my favorite cheese bread recipe to create these beautiful fall leaf and pumpkin dinner rolls that are topped with brightly colored cheese.

They turned out even prettier than I had imagined. Plus, they are so good, that I couldn’t even wait to get a picture taken before I snacked on one. Now that I’m finished, I’m going back for seconds.

Dress up your dinner rolls for Thanksgiving this year by making these beautiful Cheese Bread Leaves and Pumpkins. They are quick and easy to make and look amazing on your holiday table.

Cheese Bread Leaves and Pumpkins

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Easy Cheese Bread turned into Leaves and Pumpkins for Thanksgiving
Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
1 hr
 
Cheese topped leaf shaped individual sizes loaves of bread.
Course: Appetizer
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cheesy bread, easy cheese bread, thanksgiving appetizers
Servings: 18
Author: Beth Jackson Klosterboer
Ingredients
Cheese Decorations:
  • shortening or butter to grease molds
  • 1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
  • red and yellow food coloring optional
  • 1/4 teaspoon Dean and Jacob's Parmesan Bread Dipping Blend*
Bread:
  • 3 cups all purpose flour 15 ounces
  • 1 teaspoon table salt
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons Dean and Jacob's Parmesan Bread Dipping Blend*
  • 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
  • 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream**
  • 1/2 cup water**
  • 3/4 cups sour cream
  • 1 large egg
  • 3 tablespoons melted butter
  • *This Parmesan Cheese Dipping Blend is a mix of dehydrated garlic Parmesan cheese, salt, parsley, and spices. You can use Parmesan cheese and dried parsley, if you prefer.
  • **You can swap out 1 1/4 cup whole milk for the 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream and 1/2 cup water.
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Grease the leaf and pumpkin molds with shortening or butter.
Cheese:
  1. Put 2 tablespoons of cheese into a zip top bag.
  2. Add a few drops of red coloring and shake to coat cheese.
  3. Repeat with yellow coloring.
  4. Lightly sprinkle some of the Parmesan Dipping Blend into the leaf cavities.
  5. Sprinkle the red, yellow, and orange colored cheese in the leaf cavities and just the orange cheese in the pumpkin cavities.
Bread Batter:
  1. Combine flour, salt, baking powder, and Parmesan Bread Dipping Blend in a bowl.
  2. Add cheese and toss to coat using a fork.
  3. In a separate bowl, mix heavy whipping cream, water, sour cream and egg.
  4. Add it to the dry ingredients.
  5. Fold a few times then add melted butter.
  6. Mix, just until blended. Batter with be lumpy.
  7. Equally divide the batter among the 18 leaf and pumpkin cavities.
  8. Grease your finger tips with some shortening or butter and flatten out the batter in the mold.
  9. Set leaf and pumpkin silicone molds on baking sheets.
  10. Bake for 30-32 minutes until golden brown.
  11. Remove rolls from oven, wearing oven mitts, pull on the mold, loosening the bread from the mold.
  12. Turn the molds upside down and pop out the bread.
  13. Serve warm or cold.

Supplies:

Update: the Wilton Wilton Silicone Leaf and Pumpkin Molds have been discontinued. You can get a similar mold on Amazon.com (affiliate link).

 

How to make Cheese Bread Leaves and Pumpkins for Thanksgiving dinner.

Grease the leaf and pumpkin molds with shortening or butter. I don’t suggest using non-stick baking spray on your silicone molds.

How to make Cheese Bread Leaves and Pumpkins for Thanksgiving dinner.

If you are coloring your cheese, put about 2 tablespoons of cheese into a zip top bag. Add a few drops of red coloring and shake to coat cheese. Repeat with yellow coloring.

How to make Cheese Bread Leaves and Pumpkins for Thanksgiving dinner.

Lightly sprinkle some of the Parmesan Dipping Blend into the leaf cavities.

This not only adds some nice flavor, but it also bakes into nice dark spots, which help to define the leaves. Sprinkle the red, yellow, and orange colored cheese in the leaf cavities and just the orange cheese in the pumpkin cavities. Try to leave the stem of the pumpkins empty. That way you’ll see the contrast between the pumpkin and the stem.

How to make Cheese Bread Leaves and Pumpkins for Thanksgiving dinner.

Make the bread batter.

Equally divide the batter among the 18 leaf and pumpkin cavities. Grease your finger tips with some shortening or butter and flatten out the batter in the mold.Set leaf and pumpkin silicone molds on baking sheets.

Bake until golden brown.

How to make Cheese Bread Leaves and Pumpkins for Thanksgiving dinner.

Remove rolls from oven, wearing oven mitts, pull on the mold, loosening the bread from the mold. Turn the molds upside down and pop out the bread.

Serve warm or cold. If you like them warm, but need to make them ahead of time, just pop them into a warm oven to reheat.

Be sure to check out all of my amazing Thanksgiving Recipes

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Filed Under: Thanksgiving Recipes Tagged With: Appetizers, bread, cheese, Fall, holiday food, pumpkin

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Comments

  1. lwentkie

    November 21, 2013 at 1:59 am

    So excited for these! Thanks so much for sharing your creativity!

    Reply
  2. Jazzy

    November 17, 2013 at 10:09 pm

    Just did a trial run. Super delicious. More of a cheese biscuit consistancy. Only used about 1/2 cup of cheese for topping. Perhaps that was an error or should I be using a lot more non colored cheese on top?

    Reply
    • beth

      November 17, 2013 at 11:17 pm

      I couldn't quite figure out what to call these as the cheese bread recipe I use does have a dense texture, a bit like a biscuit. I used 1 1/2 cups of cheese to top all of the leaves and pumpkins, so a 1/2 cup per mold. Each roll was nicely covered in cheese.

      Reply
  3. Samantha @ Five Heart Home

    November 14, 2013 at 6:09 pm

    These are so creative, Beth, and almost too pretty to eat! Thanks so much for linking up to Moonlight & Mason Jars…can't wait to try these! 🙂

    Reply
  4. Sue

    November 12, 2013 at 7:41 am

    So gorgeous! They sound delicious too!

    Reply
  5. Jennie

    November 11, 2013 at 9:11 pm

    Looks so yummy!
    I would love if you would link up with me and share!
    http://thediaryofarealhousewife.blogspot.com

    Reply
  6. Maria

    November 11, 2013 at 3:58 pm

    These are so amazing!!!! I LOVE this idea, I love how you used the cheese! Beautiful, and delicious looking, too!

    Reply
  7. Linda V @ Bubble and Sweet

    November 11, 2013 at 9:22 am

    These are seriously awesome it's so hard to find savory food that is pretty. Yup awesome.

    Reply
  8. Chelsea

    November 9, 2013 at 4:09 pm

    What an awesome idea! I never would have thought to use a mold! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  9. ♥ sara ♥

    November 8, 2013 at 10:25 pm

    Fantastici!

    Reply
  10. The Bearfoot Baker

    November 8, 2013 at 4:13 pm

    Seriously mind blowing!! I love how you come up with one amazing idea after another!

    Reply
    • beth

      November 8, 2013 at 4:19 pm

      That's so nice to hear right now. I'm really finding it challenging to do so with every passing holiday. There are just so many amazing projects on-line these days. It's harder and harder to be unique!

      Reply
  11. Anonymous

    November 8, 2013 at 2:50 pm

    Excellent stuff! You're so creative. Do you mind sharing what size of scoop you used? Would it be the same size scoop you'd use for cupcake batter? I'm looking to buy a scoop but am not sure what size to get. Thanks!

    Reply
    • beth

      November 8, 2013 at 3:14 pm

      Oops, I should have mentioned that. Thanks for asking. I used an 18/8 scoop. It the largest size I have. Over scoop it just a bit to get the 18 leaves and pumpkins.

      Reply
    • beth

      November 8, 2013 at 3:20 pm

      As I was looking for the scoop on Amazon, I realized I wrote 18/8, but that isn't the size. Yes, I used a #16.

      Reply
  12. Aida @ TheCraftingFoodie

    November 8, 2013 at 3:47 am

    These look amazing! Not only are they super creative, but they look delicious. I've never thought of coloring cheese or baking rolls in a mold. Brilliant!

    Reply
    • beth

      November 8, 2013 at 2:39 pm

      Thank, Aida. I just discovered how easy it is to color cheese, and am having so much fun making new things using the idea. I used a recipe for one large loaf of bread and was surprised to get 18 rolls. They are just the right size for a side item at Thanksgiving dinner.

      Reply

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