meghan markle's pumpkin fondue
royally cheesy 🎃
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This recipe takes some of my most favorite things and blends them together. We’ve got cheese, we’ve got bread, we’ve got the opportunity for an adorably themed table scape, and we’ve even got the royal family.
Back when Meghan Markle was a life and style blogger, wrote a post about pumpkin fondue. Her entire blog has since been wiped from the internet, but a handy combination of Pinterest and The Wayback Machine have immortalized much of her previous content, including the bones of this recipe. By sticking this little pumpkin in the oven, we’re doing our part in preserving royal history. We’re basically anthropologists!
When I recreated this dish, I was impressed by how simple and delicious it was. It certainly makes for a lovely autumnal appetizer, and it’s just too freaking cute.
Here’s how you make it!
Ingredients:
1 small pumpkin, about 4¼ pounds
1 baguette (cut into ¼ inch thick slices, toasted)
¼ pound Gruyere cheese, grated
1¾ cups half and half
2 large eggs
1½ teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Carefully cut off the top of the pumpkin, as if you were carving it. Reserve the top, then scoop out and discard the seeds and strings.
Make 3 layers each of the toast and cheese in the pumpkin cavity, alternating layers and ending with cheese.
Whisk together the half and half, eggs, salt, pepper and nutmeg and slowly pour the mixture into the pumpkin.
Replace the top of the pumpkin and bake on a shallow baking pan in the middle of the oven until the pumpkin is tender, about 2 hours.
Serve by scooping out the pumpkin flesh with the bread and cheese.
Enjoy!
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