Happy Halloween! 
Made some Pumpkin bread buns yesterday for kids’ treat table 
it’s our first time making this recipe, dough is quite sticky and my first time using cooking twine to tie on the dough for creating pumpkin shape. 
didn’t expect that there’s cotton fuzz from the twine sticking on the bun after we removed it 
just googled around for solution, I may have to soak the twine in some olive oil beforehand! Gotta try again next time 
despite the cotton fuzz, the bread still tasted great!
Adapted thermomix pumpkin roll recipe from @sophiaskitchen.world
Ingredients:
200g unsweetened soy milk
350g mashed pumpkin purée (I steamed about 400g peeled pumpkin)
1/2 Tbsp instant yeast
500g to 550g bread flour (slowly add till getting desired consistency)
1/2 tsp sea salt flakes
1 pinch ground cinnamon
40 g Demerara sugar
40 g plant based butter
1 egg yolk + water for the eggwash (for vegan , can wash with plant milk)
Cinnamon stick for decoration
Cooking twine (56 pieces of about 24cm each)**my cooking twine left fuzz on the baked buns 🙁 so please find a better quality twine or soak twine in olive oil)
Steps:
- Add soy milk ,yeast and sugar in mixing bowl. Mix 2mins/ speed 2.5
- Add flour , pumpkin purée, ground cinnamon. Knead 2 mins
- Add butter and salt, knead 2 mins. If dough is still sticky or not very smooth, add bread flour and continue kneading for 30seconds to 1 minute till forming a smooth saggy dough ball
- Shape into a ball and let proof in a bowl till doubled (my kitchen 30-32deg cel , 45mins-1hour)
- Punch to degas the dough. Total dough about 1080g so divide to 14. Each about of 77-80g. Shape each one into tight dough balls, let rest.
- Pick the first dough and use 4 strings of cooking twine to loosely tie the dough into 8 section. Repeat for the rest.
- Preheat oven to 190deg cel. Let dough proof for 20-30mins. Brush with egg wash. Bake for 20mins.
- Let cool on cooling rack and remove the strings.
- Toast the cinnamon stick for 4-5 mins in toaster 140deg cel.
- Poke the cinnamon sticks onto the top center as the pumpkin stem.
