Pumpkin cheesecake: discover how to take advantage of this typical Halloween ingredient

Are you looking for new recipes for Halloween? Taking advantage of the large number of pumpkins that are in October, I teach you how to prepare a delicious and easy pumpkin cheesecake. I found the base recipe on the internet, but I added my touch and prepared my own pumpkin puree, which I promise you, without a doubt, makes a difference.

Ingredients:

1) For the pumpkin puree:

• 1 pumpkin of 1k (this gives approximately 450 g of pumpkin puree)
• 2 tablespoons of brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons of butter or extra virgin olive oil.
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 sprig of rosemary
• 3 tablespoons orange juice (1/4 orange)

2) For the cheesecake filling:

• 450g pumpkin puree
• 300g cream cheese
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 3 tablespoons of honey
• 45g cornstarch
• 90 g of milk cream
• a pinch of salt
• 3 eggs
• 4 tablespoons peanut butter with cocoa or Nutella (optional).
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

3) For the base:

• 3 cups of vanilla cookie
• 150g of butter

Preparation:

Wash, dry and cut the pumpkin in two. Then remove the seeds with the help of a spoon. Then finish cutting the pumpkin into medium pieces and place them on a buttered plate. Immediately add the butter or olive oil, brown sugar, cinnamon, bay leaves, rosemary sprig and orange juice and cook, skin side down, in a preheated oven at 400 degrees. Fahrenheit for about 45 minutes. Then remove the pulp and discard the shell. Make a puree with the help of a fork and reserve.

Place all the ingredients for the cheesecake filling, except the peanut butter with cocoa, in a blender. I recommend you pour the liquids first so that it blends easily and not force the blender. Reserve.

Melt the butter and add the ground cookie (you can blend it little by little in the blender or use a food processor). Then mix the ingredients well and place them on the base and sides of a pie pan.

Pour the pumpkin cheesecake filling into the mold with the cookie base. Then add the peanut butter in the form of thread, heat it a little so that it is easy to pour it (you can help with a chopstick or whatever you have to help spread the butter if necessary). Cook in a preheated oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for approximately 35 minutes. Enjoy and save the recipe!

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Colette.