Taste of Tuesday: Pumpkin Cheesecake

Hi everyone!

I made pumpkin cheesecake for the first time last week and it tasted so good so I have to share this recipe that I got from Martha Stewart but I changed it up a bit.

Ingredients

Crust:
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 stick butter
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp cinnamon

Filling:
4 (8 oz) packs cream cheese
1 1/4 cup sugar
3 tbsp flour
1 cup pumpkin puree
2 tbsp pumpkin-pie spice
4 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp cinnamon
1/2 tbsp salt

*I made this for a large group so the recipe could easily be cut in half to feed less people.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Pumpkin Cheesecake Crust: Melt the butter and mix ingredients until moist. Press firmly onto the bottom of a greased 9 inch baking dish.

Pumpkin Cheesecake Filling: Soften cream cheese and beat with sugar using an electric mixer until smooth. Add in flour and mix gently on low speed. Add in the pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice, vanilla, salt and mix until smooth. Add in the eggs one by one and mix on low speed until well blended.

Pour filling onto pie crust and bake for 45 minutes

Turn off oven and let it sit in there for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool completely before refrigerating.

Optional Topping: whipped cream sprinkled with either cinnamon or pumpkin-pie spice.