Pumpkin Harvest Cheesecake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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10-12
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup chocolate wafer crumbs
- 1⁄3 cup pecans (finely chopped)
- 3 tablespoons butter (melted)
- 1 1⁄2 cups canned pumpkin
- 3 eggs (at room temp)
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar (firmly packed)
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 3 (250 g) packages Philadelphia Cream Cheese (softened)
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
directions
- Pre heat oven to 350°F.
- CRUST:.
- Combine first 3 ingredients and press onto bottom of a 9 inch springform pan and bake for 10 minutes.
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FILLING:
- Whisk together pumpkin, eggs, brown sugar, and spices in medium bowl
- In larger bowl with electric mixer beat cream cheese, sugar and cornstarch. Blend in pumpkin mixture and stir well.
- Pour over crust and bake 50 - 55 minutes or until centre is just set.
- Remove from oven and run knife around rim of pan. Cool thoroughly at room temperature. Refrigerate overnight.
- Can be drizzled with some melted semi sweet chocolate . Just pipe a random pattern on top of cake using a baggie with a small hole in corner to pipe out and sprinkle with some crushed pecans on top. Around cake sides you can line up whole pecans.
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Tweaks
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I used to made this cheese cake regularly. I got to thinking I am using nuts in the crust so why not put about 2 ounces of amaretto liqeuer to the filling. I tried it and found out the alcohol bake out but added a real nice nutty flavor to the pumpkin cheese. Everyone that asked for the recipe likes the change due to the nice nutty flavor in the filling. Erwin Schnitzer