This Pumpkin Truffle Recipe is the best Halloween Dessert to make! These cute desserts are perfect for any party and for giving out to your spooky friends!
Pumpkins are beginning to appear at retail outlets and farm stands across the country. It is a sure sign that Halloween is creeping up on us. I have always enjoyed carving a jack-o-lantern for our front porch and challenge myself to try more difficult designs each year.  My husband will scoop and remove all the seeds and guts so I can spend my time and effort on creating a cool design. For years we enjoyed attending our friends’ harvest party during which the guests would all carve pumpkins. We would spread plastic garbage bags all over the floor and sit and carve for hours. Then we’d all line our pumpkins up outside and illuminate them. We have great memories of those gatherings.
The smell of pumpkin mixed with cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger wafting through the house brings up warm memories of childhood.  My mom didn’t bake too often, but she always made pumpkin bread each year. The bread was always so moist and tender and full of spicy goodness. My husband’s favorite dessert is pumpkin pie, so we have it often throughout the fall. As a chocolatier, I am always looking to create new flavors. I wanted to make a truffle that encompassed all the wonderful flavors of pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread. I think this recipe is just right.
Below are instructions for creating these delicious truffles. I created the outer shells from pure tempered chocolate. If you aren’t experienced at tempering or don’t have a tempering machine in your kitchen (because, really, who does besides me?), you can use confectionery coating. For chocolate melting instructions, go here.
Pumpkin Truffles
Ingredients:
Pumpkin Ganache:
1 cup pumpkin puree
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
pinch of salt
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
18 ounces good quality white chocolate
1/4 cinnamon chips (Hershey’s)
Chocolate Coating:
1 1/2-2 pounds semi-sweet chocolate, tempered
or 1 1/2-2 pounds dark confectionery coating
Instructions:
Prepare double boiler. Set bottom pot of double boiler, filled with 1″ of water, over low heat. Set top bowl on bottom pot, being sure that water does not touch bowl. Combine all the pumpkin ganache ingredients in the top bowl. Stir occasionally until melted and smooth.
Pour ganache into a bowl.  Press a piece of plastic wrap directly on the top of your ganache, so a crust wont form. Let cool to room temperature.
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Melt the semi-sweet chocolate or confectionery coating. Pour melted chocolate into a disposable pastry bag. Cut off the tip of the bag.
Pictured above is one of my chocolate melting machines. Each machine hold up to 50 lbs. of chocolate and allows the melted chocolate to flow out of a spout in front or be scooped out from above. I’ve had two of these Savage Bros. Machines since 1995 and love them. Even though I operate my chocolate business out of my house now, I wont part with these machines. They make tempering large batches of chocolate a snap.
Pipe chocolate into the cavities of a pumpkin shaped candy mold. Fill to the top.
Tap the mold on the table several times to allow air bubbles to rise to the surface. I use a small vibrating table to do the work for me. It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s just that at times I fill hundreds of molds a day, and this machine just makes it easier.
Turn your filled mold upside down over your bowl of chocolate. Allow most of the chocolate to drip out of the mold, leaving only a thin shell of chocolate.
Use an offset spatula or a putty knife (from the hardware store) to scrape off the excess chocolate. You want the top edge of each cavity to be clean.
Once cleaned, put mold in the refrigerator if you are using tempered chocolate, or the freezer if using confectionery coating. Allow the chocolate to set completely.
Spoon pumpkin ganache into a disposable pastry bag. Cut off the tip and pipe ganache into each chocolate filled mold. Seal each cavity with chocolate and scrape off any excess chocolate. Chill until set.
Turn mold upside down and allow chocolate to fall out of mold. If the pieces don’t come out easily, you can press the backside gently until the chocolates come out.Â
Be sure to check out all the Halloween recipes here on Hungry Happenings.
Hi, can I ask where you get your molds from? I am wanting to make some chocolates with molds, but am unsure of the best places to purchase them. I'm looking for mostly square, or simple round shapes. These look fabulous by the way!! 🙂
Hi Jessica,
I buy most of my molds from a wholesale company, but have also gotten many from on-line retailers and from a cake and candy decorating shop in my area. The pumpkin mold can be found here – http://cybercakes.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/product34.html#sthash.OEwudJQi.dpuf.
I buy wholesale from a company that also has an on-line shop. Here is a link for their square molds. http://www.countrykitchensa.com/shop/candy-making-supplies/bar-bite-size-candy-molds/39/646/673/
They should have what you are looking for.
I like to roast a fresh pumpkin, puree it in a food processor, drain it a little, and then add it to Macaroni and Cheese – Rachael Ray's Harvest Mac 'n Cheese Recipe. I made it for 25 kids, and 10 parents, at a Hunter's Harvest Moon Party that I catered. The hostess was afraid the kids would be able to tell, but they gobbled it all up. One parent even asked for the recipe, to make for her family when they come to visit. It's fun to pull one over on the kids and get something healthy in their tummies.
Thank u very much Beth 🙂 I will let u know how they come out 🙂 once again thanks
I ordered the molds 🙂 can't wait till they get here to try ur creation 🙂 i was reviewing ingredients…I can't find the cinnamon Hersheys….should I just add more wt chocolate and cinnamon….and does the 1/4 mean 1/4 cup cinnamon Hersheys…thanks..
Glad you were able to find the molds. If you can't find the cinnamon chips, just use 1/4 cup more of the white chips and add a 1/4 teaspoon more cinnamon. That should work out fine. I love the Cinnamon chips. I use them in everything from muffins, to cookies, to pancakes. I usually find them at Walmart.
Thank u 🙂
Could u please tell me where u got that pumpkin mold 🙂 I would like to make these with that mold thanks
I bought the mold many years ago from a company that is out of business. Fortunately the mold is still available here -> http://cybercakes.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/product34.html
Thanks to all who entered this contest. The winners are:
First Place Winner: Jenna Wood (Hungry Halloween book and box of pumpkin truffles)
Second Place: Laurie (pumpkin truffles)
Third Place: Noelle (pumpkin truffles)
Congratulations!
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My favorite use for the pumpkins, are to let the kids draw, or carve them however they like, because I take the seeds out, well they do, we place them on paper towels let them dry, put them in a zipper bag, and plant them for the following yr. So they plant them, tend and water them, harvest them, carve them, and the process starts right back over. They love showing their friends what "they" did.
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I looove pumpkin cheesecake, and regular pumpkin cake… but I think my favorite thing to do is make mini pumpkin pies (made by lining mini-muffin cups with pie crust and filling with standard pumpkin pie filling)
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Oh, I so want to try these pumpkin truffles, Beth. Delicious and different! Thank you for sharing!
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Oh my gosh those truffles look amazing. That might be my new favorite thing to do with pumpkin. My current favorite is to make pumpkin bread pudding.
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Firstly I want to thank you for the great instructions for tempering chocolate. They are the first I have found that really explains it and gives instructions that are easy to follow.
As for Halloween who doesn't like the opportunity to become someone else, maybe a dream person. Such fun. Only problem is that I usually end up eating too much treats but what the hey it is only once a year. Hee! Hee!
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My fave use for a pumpkin is a tradition of my boyfriend and I. We get a pumpkin and carve it together, roast the seeds, and then fill him with hay and call him Lil' Pump, and once Halloween is over, we put him out so the deer can destroy him…….destructive eh? lol
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My favorite use of a pumkin is to play a fortune telling game with it at our yearly Halloween party. I carve slots into the pumpkin and place fortunes inside of the pumpkin and have a tiny bit of the fortune hanging out a slot. The guests take turns pulling their fortunes from the slots cut into the pumpkin.
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My favorite use for a pumpkin is to carve it. I have made some really cool ones in the past. I love the looks on my kids faces when one turns out spectacular. As far as eating pumpkins it would be pumkin bread or pie. Both are delicious.
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Oh, I love pumpkin cookies and have been searching for the perfect recipe. Would you be willing to share the recipe with me? I'd love to try them out.
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Love this book. Anyone who loves Halloween will. Great ideas.
The truffles look amazing. The step by step photo log is wonderful!
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I am a gfc follower. I am going to try these truffles, they look really good. My favorite use for pumpkins is in a pumpkin cookie recipe that I found. It is from boston, and is over a hundred years old. I have never had a cookie that tastes anything like it.
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I love Halloween and it was a "treat" finding this site. I have bookmarked it. I have a site about having a dinosaur halloween for little ones so I have been doing some searches on the subject. I like your handburgers!!