Easy Pumpkin Pie Recipe-Cooking with Kids!
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This kid-friendly pumpkin pie recipe is fun for kids to help you make. It’s an old fashioned dessert that grandma would be proud of!
I hope you’ll get in the kitchen with your kids for some kids cooking classes.
Kid-Friendly Pumpkin Pie Recipe
Kids can do so many things in the kitchen and it’s great for teaching them a lot. Kids can master basic cooking skills like these.
We made our pumpkin puree from an organic pie pumpkin I bought at the farmer’s market. All we did is cut the pumpkin in half, pull out all the pulp and seeds, and bake it cut side down until it’s fork-tender. I baked ours at 350.
Make sure to have the kids wash their hands well before they cook. And make sure someone is rocking a cowboy hat! Cooking with kids has so many benefits. Kids love to get their hands gooey. We saved our seeds and cooked those too.
Let the cooked pumpkin cool and scrape the flesh loose with a spoon. Drop it in the blender to puree it. For our recipe, I used what I had on hand, so we used a cup of regular milk. We added that to the blender to make it blend easily.
A small pumpkin yields about two cups of pulp which is about the same as a can of pumpkin puree. You can make a ton of pumpkin recipes for kids with this including this kid-friendly pumpkin pie recipe. Or you could try this traditional pilgrim pumpkin pie which is a lot different. Or try one of these pumpkin recipes for kids.
Pumpkin recipes for kids cooking classes
Our kid-friendly pumpkin pie does not have seasoning such as cinnamon because I am allergic to it, even the smell, while it’s baking, gives me respiratory distress. You are welcome to add whatever pie spices you want, but I have noticed a lot of kids don’t like pumpkin pie, and mine like it without the spices.
Kids usually like simple things. It really accentuates the pumpkin flavor, it’s a totally different taste.
Once we made our pumpkin puree, the kids added the other ingredients and stirred them together. We dumped the mixture into a pie shell and POW! Kid-Friendly Pumpkin Pie!
Kid-Friendly Pumpkin Pie Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 c. homemade pumpkin puree
- 2/3 c. sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 c. milk
- pie shell
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Mix all wet ingredients together and pour into prepared pie shell.
- Bake for 50 minutes or until filling is set.
Notes
For more recipes to cook with kids in your kids cooking classes, check out Vegetable Beef Soup, Spaghetti Pie, Bananarama Bread or type cooking with kids into the search bar. We have a ton of fun recipes. There are even a few more pumpkin recipes for to cook with kids such as pumpkin cookies, pumpkin seeds, and pumpkin peach bread.
For Pumpkin ideas for kids, click here.
For more pie ideas, check these out:
- Strawberry pie without Jello
- Old-fashioned chocolate pie
- Delicious apple crisp
- Lemon Pistachio Custard Crinkle (not a pie, but like a cross between a baklava and a lemon pie, so good and unique!)
- Adorable mini tarts with shortbread crust
Make sure to pin for later!
Amount for spices ?
If you use pumpkin pie spice, you can use 2 teaspoons. If you’re doing individual spices, you can do a teaspoon of cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon of ginger, 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg and 1/2 teaspoon of cloves. It depends on how spicy you like it and if you like all of them.
Aww. This made me smile. They all look so happy and excited to make pumpkin pie.
Thanks! They were having a great time. My babies love to cook. Thank you for reading!
Pumpkin pie is such a classic and so fun! To eat and make, haha!
Yes it is. 🙂 thanks for reading!
Looks delicious and fun. Those are some happy looking kids 🙂
🙂 We had a good time. Thanks for reading!