Pete sent me a photo from Instagram of a shop in New Jersey that was making pumpkin-shaped bagels. New Jersey is a little far from us to travel to, just for bagels, but it inspired to make come up with a Pumpkin-Shaped Bagels recipe using 2 Ingredient Dough.

If you’ve been around Drugstore Divas for a while, you know that we are huge fans of 2 Ingredient Dough. We use it to make recipes like pizza, cinnamon rolls, homemade pop tarts, and more.

It’s also our go to bagel recipe.

When you use 2 Ingredient Dough to make bagels, it tastes very similar to a sourdough bread. So if you decide that you want to use these Pumpkin-Shaped Bagels as dinner rolls on Thanksgiving or breakfast for Halloween, they’d work in both instances.

This recipe uses the once-viral two ingredient dough. This recipe itself isn’t two ingredients, but the dough that’s the base is.

Since it uses 2 Ingredient Dough, but it isn’t a recipe for 2 Ingredient Dough, you might want to check out out recipe post first, just to get familiar with it dough.

For that, and an FAQ section on the dough itself, check out our 2 Ingredient Dough recipe post.

This isn’t our only recipe that uses this dough. Check out this list of 15+ Recipes Using 2 Ingredient Dough to find out what else you can do with it.

Pumpkin-Shaped Bagels Recipe

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These are pumpkin-shaped bagels, not pumpkin flavored bagels. If you wanted to flavor them, you could add some liquid pumpkin extract to the recipe.

Pumpkin-Shaped Bagels Ingredients:

• 1 cup Greek yogurt
• 5 drops red food coloring
• 8 drops yellow food coloring
• 1 cup self-rising flour
• 2 pinches salt
• 1 egg
• 4 thin pretzel sticks

How To Make Pumpkin-Shaped Bagels:

Pre-heat the oven to 350 F.

Put the Greek yogurt in a bowl.

Add the red and yellow food coloring to it and stir until the Greek yogurt turns orange.

Remember, food coloring will dull after it’s baked, so if you want to make the color more vibrant, add more food coloring in these proportions to the Greek yogurt before adding any other ingredients.

Add the self-rising flour and salt to the Greek yogurt.

Stir until the ingredients are combined and a dough starts to form. Roll the dough into a ball.

Put the dough ball onto a floured surface and cut it into four equal parts.

Roll each of those parts into a round ball. Set them aside.

Cut 12 pieces of bakers twine that are each 12 inches long.

Cross three pieces of twine, then set one of the dough balls on top of the center.

Tie the twine together.

First, tie the two across from each other that go straight across the dough ball. Make sure they meet each other in the middle. You want them to dig into the dough ball slightly, but not to cut into it.

Grab the twine strings that are two the left of the now tied strings and tie those together, making sure they meet in the middle. Again, you want these to indent into the dough ball, but not to cut through it.

Grab the final two strings and tie those together. As with the others, dent the dough ball, don’t cut it.

Take the excess strings, pull them above the dough ball, and cut them so there is only about half an inch of string above the dough ball.

Put the now pumpkin-shaped bagels on a silicone baking mat-lined cookie sheet.

Repeat these steps with the other dough balls.

Beat the egg in a small bowl. Use a pastry brush to lightly coat each dough ball.

Bake the pumpkin-shaped bagels for 30 to 35 minutes.

Let the pumpkin-shaped bagels cool completely. When they’re cool, carefully cut the twine and pull it off of the bagels.

Stick a thin pretzel stick into the center of the bagels, where the twine met.

Serve either with butter, cream cheese, or olive oil for dipping, depending on if you are using this as a bread or a bagel.

Pumpkin-Shaped Bagels: Frequently Asked Questions

Want more bagel recipes?

These Pumpkin-Shaped Bagels aren’t our only bagel recipe. And they’re not even our only bagel recipe using two ingredient dough.

We have a few others that you might enjoy below.

• 2 Ingredient Dough Rainbow Bagels
• 2 Ingredient Dough Flax Seed Bagels
• Pizza Bagels (from 2 Ingredient Dough)

Have you tried this Pumpkin-Shaped Bagels recipe yet? Comment below and let us know how it went.