Maple Pumpkin Cheesecake
Ingredients (18)
Crust
- 1 cup All Purpose Flour
- ½ cup Yellow Cornmeal
- 2 T Sugar
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 7 T Unsalted Butter
- 4 T Water
Filling
- 12 oz Cream Cheese
- ¾ cup Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- ¼ cup Half and Half
- 2 T All Purpose Flour
- 15 oz Canned Pumpkin Puree
- 2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Ground Ginger
- 1 tsp Ground Allspice
- ½ tsp Salt
- ¼ tsp Ground Nutmeg
- 3 T Maple Syrup
Directions
- Mix flour, cornmeal, sugar and salt in the bowl of a food processor. Add butter and pulse until incorporated. Add water, 1 tablespoon at a time while pulsing, until ball forms. Remove and wrap with plastic wrap. Chill at least 30 minutes.
- Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface with a lightly floured rolling pin into a 14-inch diameter round. Fit into a 9-inch pie pan, and crimp excess dough around the edges of the pan. Chill at least 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- To prepare the filling, combine 8 ounces cream cheese, sugar, eggs, half-and-half and flour in a bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Remove 1/3 cup of the mixture and transfer to a separate bowl; reserve. Add pumpkin, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, salt and nutmeg to the egg mixture in the mixing bowl; beat until smooth.
- To the reserved egg mixture, beat in remaining 4 ounces cream cheese and maple syrup.
- Pour pumpkin mixture into the pie crust. Spoon little dollops of the maple mixture all over the top and gently swirl it through (using a fork handle, or a chopstick) the filling.
- Bake on a baking sheet, 50 to 60 minutes, until filling is just set. Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack 1 hour. Transfer to refrigerator and chill at least 3 hours before serving.
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