This is a tasty, original way to prepare toasted pumpkin seeds. Simple to make and difficult to goof up. You won’t be able to stop eating these once you start!
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 45 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 1 cup |
Ingredients
- 1 cup raw pumpkin seeds, rinsed and dried
- 6 tablespoons white sugar, divided
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Spread pumpkin seeds in a single layer on a baking sheet. Toast for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally, until dry and toasted. Larger seeds may take longer.
- In a large bowl, stir together 2 tablespoons of white sugar, salt, and pumpkin pie spice. Set aside. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the pumpkin seeds and sprinkle the remaining sugar over them. Stir with a wooden spoon until the sugar melts, about 45 seconds. Pour seeds into the bowl with the spiced sugar and stir until coated. Allow to cool before serving. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.
Reviews
I used coconut oil and pure cane sugar…came out amazing!!! I did not cook the seeds in the pan at all and it still had the perfect crunch…seems like an unnecessary step (from one of the popular reviews).
Replaced a bit of oil with 2 tsp butter, added a little cinnamon to the pumpkin spice. Yummy and kids loved
Soooo delicious!!!!! Best recipe I’ve tried yet!
Excellent recipe! Yum!
My kids loved it
These are crazy good. I used pumpkin seed oil and it worked just great.
Followed the recipe exactly and it turned out so yummy! AND SO SIMPLE!!! Made this for an after school/Pre-Halloween treat and decided I better eat some NOW because this definitely won’t last long!
Not the taste I was expecting but it’s alright. Hubby didn’t like the taste at all and my daughter said it taste like peanuts.
I double checked twice. It actually says six TABLEspoons sugar. I barely used TWO and it was way too much. Could do two TBSP with the recommended spices and about 2-3 cups seeds (not one) and it would be just right..
I made it Just like it says and they’re so good!
Delicious! This recipe basically makes candied pumpkin seeds, very similar to the spiced nuts you see in kiosks at the mall.
this recipe is amazing! the only thing that everyone was not so sure about was all of the sugar on the seeds. i had to double the recipe so i don’t know if that’s what caused it or if it was something else. otherwise they were amazing!!
Easy recipe for delicious, sweet toasted pumpkin seeds. They remind me of candied nuts.
easy yummy 1st time eating sweet pumpkin seeds always make salty, this was awesome cant stop eating them, will definately make more next time, hard to share.
Super simple recipe that was easy to adapt to the small amount of Squash seeds I had (1/2 cup). I feel like the surgar could be reduced. I added just a touch of Cayenne pepper to a small portion of the seeds, love the sweet heat!
Made the recipe as is. I liked them, our kids didn’t. Sweet & salty. Delicious!!! Only thing, I kept them in the pan until they started browning…. they tasted slightly burnt but I really didn’t mind. Super crunchy for when you want a little snack! Will definitely make these again. Next time, I’ll need a bigger pumpkin!!!
Kiersten loved it. I did cook it at 275 degrees for 1 hour though.
These were amazing! I only used about 3 Tbs of sugar. I used 1 Tbs for the salt, and pumpkin pie spice mixture. I also put 4 Tbs of sugar in a small tea cup and sprinkled over the pumpkin seeds while cooking in the oil. I only used half of it. These are delicious and need to buy another pumpkin for some more seeds!
I had tons of seeds so I tripled this recipe. Perhaps it’s not agreeable to that. I agree with many other reviewers that the amount of sugar seems off. “Sprinkle remaining sugar” is deceiving…there’s way too much for a sprinkle. And it didn’t budge in 45 seconds. I had to keep stirring as it smoked and the seeds browned… It never fully desolved and the seeds started getting into huge chunks (another reviewer said it’s like peanut brittle…I agree). I had to finally take it off the heat because I didn’t want the seeds to burn. Then I dumped it into MORE sugar…it was just insane. Wish it had more pumpkin spice too. The only reason I didn’t give it lower stars is because the flavor is decent…it’s just that they are clumped together with huge amounts of unmelted sugar coating them…not at all the texture I was expecting. (After posting this I went back and looked at the pictures…would have helped to do that ahead of time as most recipes looked like mine did. I guess the granulated sugar coating is the desired outcome.)
I loved this recipe! My kids ate the seeds for the first time in years! I will use a little less sugar next time because there was alot that did not stay on the seeds.
I have tried a few recipes and this one is fail proof. Yummy!