Tips on Carving a Pumpkin

My family loves to eat pumpkins…in everything from soups to pies to breads. This year, we bought a pumpkin so that we could carve and make our favorite goodies. Here are few pumpkin carving tips from our family to yours.

• Choose large pumpkins that do not have bruises or moldy stems.
• Pumpkins with a lighter color tend to be softer and easier to carve.
• When cleaning the pumpkin, save the seeds.  Toasted pumpkin seeds make a healthy, tasty snack (Click here for recipe!).
• Use a large, heavy metal serving spoon or ice cream scoop to scrape the insides.
• Use a long serrated knife or a pumpkin-carving knife with teeth to cut through pumpkin flesh. 
• Use a sawing motion and take your time cutting along the outside edge of the marker lines.

Have fun carving!