Pumpkin Cheesecake
Oct 27th, 2009 by Becca
INGREDIENTS
Serves 12.
CRUST
1 1/4 cups graham-cracker crumbs (from10 whole crackers)
1/4 cup sugar
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
FILLING
4 packages (8 ounces each) bar cream cheese, very soft
1 1/4 cups sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup canned pumpkin puree
2 tablespoons pumpkin-pie spice***
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 large eggs, room temperature
DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, with rack in center. Assemble a 9-inch nonstick springform pan, with the raised side of the bottom part facing up.
2. Make the crust: In a medium bowl, mix cracker crumbs, sugar, and butter until moistened; press firmly into bottom of pan. Bake until golden around edges, 10 to 12 minutes.
3. Make the filling: With an electric mixer, beat cream cheese and sugar on low speed until smooth; mix in flour (do not overmix). Add pumpkin puree, pie spice, vanilla, and salt; mix just until smooth. Add eggs one at a time, mixing until each is incorporated before adding the next.
4. Place springform pan on a rimmed baking sheet. Pour filling into springform, and gently smooth top. Transfer to oven; reduce oven heat to 300 degrees. Bake 45 minutes. Turn off oven; let cheesecake stay in oven 2 hours more (without opening).
5. Remove from oven; cool completely. Cover with plastic wrap; refrigerate until firm, at least 4 hours. Unmold before serving.
*** Check out our recipe for Pumpkin Pie Spice!
This sounds delicious! I think when I try it, I’ll just buy a crust from the store though.
Thank you for your recipe looks very delicious
I made this cheesecake today and it was delicious!!!!! I love pumpkin pie and cheesecake, so combine the two makes perfect sense. Thank you for a great recipe. It will be added to our family favorite.
I really like cheesecakes, and I was really interested to try this kind of cheesecake recipe. It looks very delicious and mouth-watering recipe.
I’m so excited to try this.:)
very yummy.. thanks for the recipe, great!!
Although it will be hard foe me to wait for this recipe to get ready as it requires at least 5 hours to get prepared,, but i am surekly going to try this one !
The recepie looks great. I have never cooked it before but have eaten the dish. This time i will myself make the dish and give a surprise to my mom.
This is a great recipe! Thanks a lot and please: more of this!!!
Sounds delicious.I will try this at home today.Thanx for the recipe.
These pumpkin cheese cake looks delicious. It reminds me of my mother who used to cook a similar dish for me when i was small and when we lived together.