Recipe: Tasty Halloween Kabocha Squash Bread

Halloween Kabocha Squash Bread. This kabocha bread is made from sweet Kabocha Anko paste wrapped with Japanese soft milk bread and shaped like a kabocha pumpkin or a Kabocha squash. This bread is a sweet bread, so it is a great snack to share at a Halloween party. This Spiced Kabocha Squash And Olive Oil Cake With Olive Oil Glaze And Toasted Pumpkin Seeds recipe is featured in the Pumpkin, Squash, and Sweet Potato Desserts feed along with many more.

Kabocha squash is also known as Japanese pumpkin, its flavor is somewhere between […] Kabocha Squash Bread Baking and Tenting. The scoring is optional, but it helps a bit to get an even baking result. A fluffy bread with a cute color and plenty of pumpkin. You can cook Halloween Kabocha Squash Bread using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Halloween Kabocha Squash Bread

1. It's of Bread (strong) flour.
2. Prepare of Kabocha squash.
3. It's of Sugar.
4. Prepare of Salt.
5. It's of Milk.
6. Prepare of to 75 grams Water.
7. Prepare of Butter.
8. You need of Instant dried yeast.
9. It's of ◎ Kabocha squash.
10. Prepare of ◎ Cream cheese.
11. It's of ◎ Sugar.
12. It's of Walnuts (roasted).

Chiffon-shaped bread with apples made before is now pumpkin! Grease two regular bread pans or four miniature bread pans. Whisk together the flours, sugar, spices, salt, and baking soda. Make a well in dry ingredients and add the squash puree, oil, eggs, and water.

Halloween Kabocha Squash Bread instructions

1. Mix together all the ingredients except for the walnuts and the ones marked with a ◎ to make the dough. Allow the dough to rise (1st rising)..
2. Prepare the kabocha cream in a separate bowl by mixing together the ◎ ingredients - kabocha, cream cheese, and sugar, in the order listed..
3. When the dough has risen, punch it down and divide into 8 equal portions. Let the dough balls rest for 15 minutes..
4. Flatten out a piece of dough, spread the kabocha cream in the center, then fold it up 2/3 of the length, and roll into a cone..
5. Place the cones in a circle in a greased bread pan with the pointed ends touching in the center..
6. Select two whole walnut halves that look like a dried pumpkin stem when put together. →.
7. After the bread has risen for the second time, press the walnuts down into the center of the dough, and bake for 25 minutes at 360°F/180°C..
8. Decorate the bread with kabocha seeds..

Dump the kabocha mixture on top of the dry ingredients. Use a rubber spatula to gently fold it all together. At first I made the Jack-o-lantern face using kabocha squash skin but it didn't work out very well so I decided to do it with nori seaweed which is easy. Dump the kabocha mixture on top of the dry ingredients. Gently stir in the chopped walnuts.