Puff Pastry Pumpkin Rolls are the perfect Fall dessert. Puff pasty filled with delicious pumpkin spice puree filling, topped with a maple glaze.
Just what you need alongside a pumpkin latte! If you love cinnamon rolls, these sweet rolls are sure to please. Made in just over 30 minutes.
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RECIPE and INSTRUCTIONS for these mini pumpkin spice cinnamon rolls can be found at the bottom of this post.
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Ingredients Needed For This Simple Puff Pastry Dessert
- Pumpkin puree – not pie filling
- Puff pastry – frozen or homemade
- Maple sugar
- Cinnamon
- Ginger
- Cloves
- Icing sugar
- Maple syrup
- Water
Baking Puff Pastry Pumpkin Rolls
Full instructions are in the recipe card below. Be sure to check out the great substitutions and recipe tips.
- Thaw the puff pastry according to package directions.
- Combine the pumpkin puree with the spices.
- Spread over puff pastry.
- Roll and cut.
- Place on a baking sheet and bake until golden brown.
- Once baked remove from the oven.
- Prepare glaze.
- Drizzle and allow to set.
In just over 30 minutes from start to finish, you will have some fresh baked easy-to-make pumpkin rolls. The hardest part is letting them cool before eating.
Suggestions/Recipe Tips
Pumpkin Puree – I used canned, but feel free to use homemade. Did you know you can freeze puree? Yup, I do it all the time. I open the can, use what I need and freeze the rest for later.
Pumpkin Spice – This recipe used a combination of cinnamon, ginger and cloves. You can adjust the amount according to your taste. You can also use a blend found in grocery stores, or make your own homemade spice blend.
Additions – You can add some nuts or pumpkin seeds before rolling.
Maple Sugar – Can be replaced with brown sugar.
Glaze – If you prefer, you can omit it, or make it with vanilla instead of syrup. A cream cheese frosting is a great alternative.
Size/Baking – I made these small, but if you roll the dough starting at the shorter end, the rolls will be larger (cut them into 8). You may have to adjust the baking time. You can also bake them in muffin tins if you prefer.
Serving/Storing – These are best eaten on the day they are baked. To store, place in a covered container. Note, that the pasty will not be as flaky, but they are still delicious. They will last about 3-4 days at room temperature. I personally would not freeze these rolls.
Frequently Asked Questions
Puff pastry has a higher fat content with flaky layers. It is much thicker and richer and contains lots of butter. Phyllo dough is paper thin sheets of pastry. Once layered and baked, the end result is crispy and flaky pastry. Both of these can be homemade, or easily found frozen in the grocery store.
No, they are not. The puree is just cooked, mashed pumpkin, and/or winter squash, with nothing added.
Pie filling has all the sweetness and spices added. Just pour and bake.
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Puff Pastry Pumpkin Rolls
Ingredients
- 1 sheet puff pastry (thawed)
- ¼ cup maple sugar
- ½ cup pumpkin puree
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ginger
- pinch ground cloves
For the Glaze:
- ½ cup icing sugar
- 1 – 1½ teaspoons water
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
Instructions
Baking the Pumpkin Rolls:
- Thaw puff pastry according to package directions.1 sheet puff pastry
- Preheat oven to 375ºF and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Combine the pumpkin puree, maple sugar and spices in a small bowl.¼ cup maple sugar, ½ cup pumpkin puree, ½ teaspoon cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon ginger, pinch ground cloves
- Unroll the puff pastry onto a floured surface. You can use a rolling pin to make it a little thinner if you wish.
- Spread the pumpkin filling onto the pastry. Be sure to leave about a ½ inch border around the edges.
- Roll up into a log along the LONG side of the pastry.
- Using a knife or pastry cutter, cut into 10 pieces.
- Place on the prepared baking sheet cut side up.
- Bake in the oven until golden brown. 20-25 minutes.
- Remove from oven let cool for a few minutes and tranfer to a wire rack.
Making the Glaze:
- Place the icing sugar in a mixing bowl.½ cup icing sugar
- Add the maple syrup and combine.1 tablespoon maple syrup
- Slowly add the water, using just enough to make a nice consistency, easy to drizzle.1 – 1½ teaspoons water
- Using a spoon, drizzle glaze over each roll.
- Allow glaze to set. ENJOY!
Heidy
These Puff Pastry Pumpkin Rolls were amazing. A total cinch to make with all the great instructions. I will be making these again!
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
I have already made them twice, and more on the way. SOOOO good.
Tracy
Perfect fall breakfast indeed!! I loved how these used puff pastries, it made them so easy but still so delicious!!
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
These pumpkin rolls made with puff pastry are our new favourites for sure.
Lisa
Using puff pastry is such a great idea as it is so easy to work with. And i love the smaller size of these! A great little bite.
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
Everything is perfect in these cute mini pumpkin rolls.
Lauren Michael Harris
I am obsessed lately with making puff pastry rolls and these pumpkin ones were the cure to all my pumpkin spice cravings! They were so easy to make too!
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
Puff pastry is so fun to work worth. Works great in this pumpkin roll recipe.
Tristin
I made these over the weekend and now it feels like fall is already here! Perfection with the maple drizzle!
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
These mini puff pastry rolls filled with pumpkin are fall perfect.
Jamie
I had some leftover pumpkin puree and decided to make these pumpkin rolls. They turned out delicious and my family loved them! Thank you!
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
I will always have leftover pumpkin just so I can make these rolls.
Erin
These rolls look so easy! I love that they use puff pastry. Totally from scratch rolls are just way too time-consuming, so these are perfect for me!
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
I have to agree, these delicious rolls are made in minutes.
Katie Crenshaw
These were so fun to make and they turned out so delicious. They are the perfect treat for fall. I loved the pumpkin and cinnamon flavors combined with the maple glaze. Brilliant!
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
All the flavours of fall are in these delicious cinnamon pumpkin rolls.