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If you’re in the mood for a delicious fall season treat, you’ll love this pumpkin fruit leather recipe! With just a few simple ingredients and easy steps, you can whip up pumpkin fruit leather in your food dehydrator for everyone around you to enjoy and usher in the fall season.
I’m always looking for a good snack that my kids will love, minus all the junk! You can definitely find fruit leathers in stores, but most of them have so much added sugar, and the healthier ones can be a little costly.
Dehydrated pumpkin fruit leather is so straightforward that even your kids can make it, with some assistance of course. Anything homemade is always a plus in my book!
You may ask, what are the benefits of eating pumpkin? Well, glad you asked! Pumpkins have a tremendous amount of health benefits, including being the best known source for beta carotene, which is a powerful antioxidant that gives orange colored fruits and vegetables their color, and that the body converts into vitamin A.
The fiber, vitamin C and potassium in pumpkins all support heart health, and also help reduce high blood pressure and obesity, since pumpkins are also low in calories.
So pumpkins aren’t just tasty, they’re also full of healthy goodness for your body!
Making pumpkin fruit leather is child’s play! You only need 4 ingredients, and I’m not kidding!
The first ingredient you will need is pumpkin puree. Now you can either purchase cans of organic pumpkin puree if you’re pressed for time, or you can roast a pie pumpkin or butternut squash, then puree it. However you’d like to obtain your pumpkin puree is totally up to you.
The second ingredient is apple sauce. Again, you may get a jar at your local health food store or make it out of fresh apples.
The third ingredient is honey. Adding a little sweetener to the recipe is nice, since pumpkins aren’t very sweet.
The fourth ingredient is cinnamon, which adds a burst of warm fall season flavor to the fruit leather.
Once you have all of these ingredients ready to go, add them all to your blender (I used this high powered Vitamix blender). Then blend everything until the mixture is very smooth.
Add the puree to your tray, using the dehydrator sheet, and smooth it out with a spatula. Then place the tray in your dehydrator at 135° for 8 hours.
After 8 hours you may remove your tray from the dehydrator and cut your pumpkin fruit leather, using a pizza slicer or kitchen shears. You may want to roll them in parchment paper to avoid sticky fingers, and tie them with baking twine.
To store your dehydrated pumpkin fruit leather, use an airtight container, such as mason jars. These delicious treats will last a few weeks, if you are able to keep them for that long.
Have fun making this wonderful healthy treat with your family – enjoy during the fall and holiday seasons.
In a high speed blender or bowl, add pumpkin puree, apple sauce, cinnamon and honey, then mix until smooth.
Use a spatula to spread the mixture evenly on teflex lined dehydrator tray. Aim for the thickness to be 1/8 - 1/4 inch.
Dehydrate at 135° for 8 hours. Then allow the fruit leather to cool down down after the dehydration process has completed. (You can let this run overnight to allow plenty cooling time).
Use a pizza slicer, kitchen shears or a sharp knife to cut into strips.
Cut parchment paper in the same size as the fruit leather strips. Lay the fruit leather on the parchment paper and roll inward, and then tie with baking twine.