Pumpkin Pull Apart Bread
Easy pumpkin pull apart bread is the perfect fall treat. This pumpkin pull apart bread is quickly made with pre-made pizza dough and each layer is filled with sweet mixture of pumpkin, pecans, autumn spices, and caramel.
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Layers of soft, fluffy sheets of dough infused with autumnal spices from addition of cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg and layered with sweet pumpkin puree and caramel. A little added texture of crunchy pecans is very pleasant to the pallet of soft and gooey pull apart bread.
This easy and quick pumpkin pull apart bread is almost effortless and a perfect fall weekend treat. Since we are using pre-made dough, it will take you minutes to put together. You can serve it for breakfast, brunch, snack, or dessert.
I highly recommend that you get some fresh pre-made pizza dough from the deli/bakery section of your grocery store rather than canned and pre-packaged. The results will be much tastier!
Ingredient Notes and Tips
Pizza dough – to make it nice and easy, get the pre-made pizza dough from the grocery store. I highly recommend you get freshly made dough from the bakery section of the store if available.
Pumpkin Puree – you can use your favorite store-bought pumpkin puree or homemade pumpkin puree. Just note that homemade pumpkin puree can sometimes be thinner so you really need to pay attention to that! When getting store-bought, make sure to get pumpkin puree NOT pumpkin pie mix!
Brown Sugar – you can use light brown sugar or dark brown sugar. The difference between the two is in the amount of molasses added, dark brown sugar containing more, of course.
Pecans – you can either buy finely chopped pecans or chop them yourself. I don’t recommend a blender or food processor because the chop will not be even, some will always get ground into powder while other pieces are in chunks.
Caramel sauce – use caramel sauce or caramel topping. Just note that caramel topping will be much thicker and should be warmed to thin it out. You can also try salted caramel sauce if you wish!
See recipe card for complete information on ingredients and quantities.
How To Make Pumpkin Pull Apart Bread
Roll out pizza dough into a rectangle that’s about 16×8 inches in size. (It’s okay if the dough is thin as long as it’s not so thin that it rips or is see-through.)
In a small mixing bowl, combine pumpkin, sugar, spices, and pecans. Mix until all incorporated.
Brush dough with melted butter (1) and drizzle 1/4 cup of caramel all over the dough. Spread pumpkin mixture evenly all over the dough (2).
Use a pizza cutter to easily slice the dough lengthwise into three long strips and then width-wise, creating squares. Stack squares (4) and place them side-by-side into the prepared loaf pan (5). Drizzle some more caramel over the top (6) and place in the oven.
Bake for 35-40 minutes at 350°F (note, it may take additional 5 minutes or so depending on the pan used and the oven). Drizzle some more caramel over the top once baked (8).
Recipe FAQs
I do not recommend it! Canned pumpkin puree has only one ingredient – pumpkin.
Pumpkin pie filing actually comes mixed with sugar, spices, and a few other ingredients. Using pumpkin pie filling in recipes that call for pumpkin puree will compromise the taste. It’s hard to gauge how much sugar and spices to take away from the recipe to balance what’s in the pie filling.
That’s why I don’t usually recommend using pumpkin pie filling in any pumpkin recipes that call for pumpkin puree.
Of course, you can make your own pizza dough to make this pumpkin pull apart bread, just make sure it is a plain pizza dough. At the most, you can add some pumpkin pie spice to it but don’t add more sugar or other flavors.
It’s best to use pizza dough or plain yeast dough. Biscuit dough has a different texture and baking needs, it will not come out the same. Bake time would also be different.
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Easy Caramel Pumpkin Pull Apart Bread
Ingredients
- 1 lb pizza dough
- 2/3 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground allspice
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 Tbsp melted butter
- 1/4 cup caramel sauce
- 1/4 cup caramel sauce to drizzle on top
- Flour for surface
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉ and grease an 8×4 bread loaf pan.
- Roll out pizza dough into a rectangle that’s about 16×8 inches in size.
- In a small mixing bowl, combine pumpkin, sugar, spices and pecans. Mix until all incorporated.
- Brush dough with melted butter and drizzle 1/4 cup of caramel all over the dough.
- Spread pumpkin mixture evenly all over the dough.
- Cut the dough easily using a pizza cutter, lengthwise, into three long strips. Then cut in width-wise, creating squares. Stack squares and place them side-by-side into the prepared loaf pan. Drizzle some more caramel over the top and place in the oven.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes. (Note, it may take additional 5 minutes or so depending on the pan used and the oven).
- Drizzle some more caramel over the top once baked.
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Originally published on Will Cook For Smiles in August 2015.
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Can you assemble the pull apart pumpkin bread a day or two before baking? I’m trying to get a head start before baking this on Thanksgiving.
Hi Sindy!
I can’t imagine why not. Just make sure to cover it with saran wrap before refrigerating. You might need to bake extra 5 or so minutes since it will be cold. If the top is browning too fast while baking, loosely cover it with foil.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I, too, stacked the pieces the wrong way. It was my fault. Had I looked closer at the photo, I would have realized. The finished product wasn’t as pretty as the photos you posted, but it still tasted delicious!
Hi Jodi!
I’m so glad that you liked the taste! After all, that’s what matters more than the look 🙂 I hope you’ll make it some more!