I have begun to check off my October Bucket List Items. Or, well, I've tackled ONE item: "Make a cream-cheese pumpkin pie." But that's one very important item, right?!
A few weeks ago I attempted a Harry Potter-style pumpkin pasty recipe. While mine tasted quite good and made a wonderfully unhealthy breakfast food, they kind of looked like one of those pictures on a Pinterest fail meme. Let's a take a look, shall we?
(Oh noooo!!! Compare to the beautiful ones linked above!)
Anyway, after making that recipe, I ended up having a lot of extra pumpkin that needed using up, so I decided to attempt my first ever pumpkin pie! After looking through several recipes, I decided to riff on this one. I used nearly all of a can of pumpkin (minus about 1/4th cup), probably 7 oz of cream cheese, and only two eggs instead of three. I liberally added in spices (especially the cinnamon, and I added allspice), but moderated the sugar, putting in slightly less than the recipe recommends. I also decided that for a fun visual Halloween-esque twist (black and orange!), and a nice flavor combination, I'd use a store-bought Oreo crust. I ended up having to bake for about an hour instead of the recommended forty-minutes, but it turned out beautifully!
This one both tastes amazing AND looks amazing! One bucket list item down, eleven to go!
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