Halloween may be over, but it’s still Fall and we’re still obsessed with all things pumpkin around here. I may even be drinking a homemade pumpkin cream cold brew as I type this.
Pumpkin Cheese Fondue Recipe Backstory
One time when we were shopping at Trader Joe's, we were buying a few pumpkins to make a big batch of my Roasted Pumpkin Soup. At the checkout, the cashier was chatting with us and being extra friendly. When she scanned our pumpkins, she asked us if we were having pumpkin fondue. Pumpkin fondue?! I told her I had never heard of that before, so she told us that all it was basically a pumpkin full of different cheeses and baked in the oven. Of course that sounds awesome to me so I decided to make one myself!
These little pumpkins create a great vessel to bake and serve your cheese fondue in and it even cooks the pumpkin inside, so that when you scrap your cheese out, it sometimes gives you bits of yummy pumpkin. The spices and wine and honey give it a sweet but savory taste that’s so melt in your mouth good!
We served up this Pumpkin Cheese Fondue with sliced French bread, apple slices, sweet Gherkin pickles and different types of meat like salami and made a full meal out of it.
Pumpkin Cheese Fondue
Ingredients
1 pie pumpkin
4 oz Emmental cheese, grated
4 oz Gruyere cheese, grated
4 oz creme fraiche
1 tsp garlic minced
1 pinch ground nutmeg
drizzle honey
2 tbsp white wine
1 loaf French bread
Sides Optional:
Apples slices, sweet gherkin pickles, salami
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
Cut and deseed your pumpkin like you are going to carve a jack-o-lantern.
Grate your cheeses and mix them together with your wine, creme fraiche, nutmeg, garlic and honey. Set it aside.
Cut up some of the French bread into cubes and fill your pumpkin about 1/2 way full with the bread.
Top the bread with the cheese mixture.
Bake for 30 minutes until bubbly and melted. You can dig into the sides of the pumkin to mix in the pumpkin with the cheesy bread. So yummy!
Serve with extra sliced French bread, apple slices, sweet gerkin pickles and slices of salami.
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