Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Maple Pumpkin Cheesecake

Was emailing with Carma yesterday and she reminded me of a recipe that I used to make every Christmas time. Truffles! However I couldn't find the recipe. It's around here somewhere and I WILL find it. Just can't put my hands on it today....Anyway, I made this Maple Pumpkin Cheesecake for Thanksgiving a few years ago and when it was served, it went so fast that I didn't even get a piece. I'm told it was delicious... I may make it again this year, but haven't decided yet. Let me know if you try it!

I found this recipe in a Hershey's favorite recipes cookbook of a friend.

Maple Pumpkin Cheesecake
prep time 25 minutes bake time 1 hour and 15 minutes

1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter
3 (8-ounce) packages of cream cheese, softened
1 (14-ounce) can Sweetened Condensed Milk (NOT evaporated milk)
1 (15-ounce) can pumpkin (1 3/4 cups
3 eggs
1/4 cups maple syrup
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt

Maple Pecan Glaze (recipe follows)

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Combine graham cracker crumbs, sugar and butter; press firmly on bottom of 9-inch springform pan. * With mixer, beat cheese until fluffy. Gradually beat in Sweetened Condensed Milk until smooth. Add pumpkin, eggs, maple syrup, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt; mix well.
Pour into prepared pan. Bake 1 1/4 hours or until center appears nearly set when shaken. Cool 1 hour. Cover and chill at least 4 hours.

2. To serve, spoon some Maple Pecan Glaze over cheesecake. Garnish with whipped cream and pecans, if desired. Store leftovers (yeah right) in refrigerator.
Makes one (9-inch) cheesecake

* to use 13x9 inch baking pan, press curmb mixture firmly on bottom of pan. proceed as above

Maple Pecan Glaze: In saucepan, combine3/4 cup maple syrup and 1 cup (1/2 pint) heavy whipping cream; bring to a boil. Boil rapidly 15 to 20 minutes or until thickened; stir occasionally. Add 1/2 cup chopped pecans if you want.

13 comments:

Annie Jones said...

Just stopping in to say Hi! Making the rounds and trying to catch up. That's a great photo of your kids! I'm out of the loop on what's been bothering you, but I hope you feel better soon!

slugmama said...

That pie sounds scrumptious.
Might have to put it into the Christmas sweets rotation since Thanksgiving pies are done!
I will have a ton of pumpkin puree when I am finished processing my pumpkins.

Have a peacefulThanksgiving, no tht won't work....ok, have a peacefull weekend AFTER Thansgiving. ;-)

Macey said...

You had me at Maple.
No.
You had me at Pumpkin.
No.
You had me at Cheesecake.
Oh hell. Any food is my lovah.

Macey said...

AND! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Carma Sez said...

Yay!! Glad to have inspired your post :D That recipe sounds scrumptious!! <---- spelling is probably incorrect but spellcheck is not working

Carma Sez said...

doh!! Had I read the previous comments I would have realized that slugmamma used the same word :D

Michelle said...

This really does sound good. Pumpkin can be a bit over powering for me, so the maple sounds good with it.

mamahasspoken said...

Have a great Thanksgiving! I've made pumpkin cheese cake just this past week. I didn't like it but hubby did. he swears that it did get better with age.

Cíntia Pandolfi said...

Hello!
should be a delight!
Cíntia
aprendizdecostura

Mayet said...

this one sounds delicious. I will try to do this and will let you know the result!!

Blogs said...

now i have to go buy a pie crust.....haha! love cheesecake and i'm the only one who will eat:) i'm saving this to my recipes...thanks! hope your thanksgiving was wonderful!

Laura Marchant said...

Sounds yummy!

The Old Parsonage said...

Mmmm I love pumpkin anything! This sounds divine for anytime.

Hope that you had a wonderful day! You'll have to check out my Christmas cards - I used the same stamp set you did at your card party!

Leann

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