It’s the season for pumpkin everything, but if you are bored with the typical Pumpkin pie, here are three alternative pumpkin dessert recipes you can try.
Pumpkin Cheese Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
Crust:
• 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
For the Cheesecake:
• 4 8-ounce packages of cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 can (15 oz.) pure pumpkin puree
• 1/3 cup heavy cream
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
Instructions:
- Crush the graham crackers and add the melted butter, sugar, and pumpkin spice, mix well. Press the crumbs into a 9-inch springform pan wrapped in foil to prevent leaks when using a water bath, lightly coated with non-stick cooking spray. Bake for 10 mins.
- For the filling: beat together the cream cheese with the sugars until light and fluffy.
- Add in the eggs, pumpkin, and heavy cream, followed by the vanilla and pumpkin pie spice.
- Pour the filling into your prepared crust and bake the cheesecake in a water bath for about an hour.
- Once the cheesecake is done baking, crack the oven door, turn the oven off, and let the cheesecake cool for 1 hour in the cooling oven, before placing it on a cooling rack to cool.
- Put in the refrigerator to completely set, and enjoy!
Pumpkin Gelato
Ingredients:
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 1/4 cups milk
- 3/4 cup cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
Instructions:
- In a large bowl beat together pumpkin puree, milk, cream, vanilla, cinnamon, and brown sugar for approximately 1 minute.
- Then pour into the ice cream maker and follow machine instructions.
- Put it into a bowl or on a cone and add your favorite toppings.
No Bake Pumpkin Bites
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup nut butter
- 1/4 cup pumpkin puree
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 cup coconut flour (or 3/4-1 cup almond flour)
- 1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1/4 tsp salt (if nut butter isn’t salted)
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips + 1 cup melted chocolate for dipping.
Instructions:
- In a large bowl, mix together the nut butter, pumpkin, maple syrup, and vanilla.
- Add in the flour, pumpkin pie spice, and salt. Stir till combined.
- Stir in the chocolate chips and place in the fridge for ten minutes.
- Whilst the dough is in the fridge, melt the chocolate for dipping. You can add 1 tsp coconut oil to the chocolate and melt in 30-second increments in the microwave.
- Take the dough out of the fridge and roll it into balls. Dip it in melted chocolate.
- Place it in fridge or freezer to harden.
