That's right, now that Halloween is over and we've had our fill of carving pumpkins, it's time to eat them! We started with a pumpkin cheesecake on top of a brownie (Pumpkin Cheesecake Brownie). The original recipe (Cheesecake Brownie) came from the Disney Dessert book (Cheesecake Brownie) we bought at Disneyland, but because of the holidays, we decided to make it a pumpkin cheesecake. We used a Paula Deen (Pumpkin Cheesecake) recipe for the pumpkin cheesecake, and the Disney recipe for the brownie. Initially we were afraid that the cheesecake wasn't done when we took it out from the oven, but after letting it cool in the fridge for a couple hours we found the cheesecake had firmed up nicely and it turned out AMAZING! The pumpkin cheesecake was the perfect amount of great classic cheesecake with a dash of holiday flavor, complimenting the brownie nicely. All in all it was a great success!
We then had the idea of making pumpkin pie from scratch. Oh yes, real pumpkins and hand rolled pie crust. We bought two sugar pumpkins from the grocery store, which had baking instructions on the bottom of them. Turns out that all you have to do to make homemade "pumpkin puree" is to cut off the stems of the pumpkins, then cut the pumpkins in half. Scrape out all the seeds and mush then place the pumpkin halves, skin up, on a foil lined baking sheet. Bake for 45 minutes, or until the pumpkin is fork tender. You then scrape out the meat of the pumpkin and put it into a food processor with all the spices needed ( we used nutmeg, ground ginger, cinnamon, ground cloves and ground cardamon, but I'm sure the good old "pumpkin spice" would do the trick). Then came the pie crust, which turned out to be super easy and super good! The pie turned out to be a great success! It was so much fun to make, and we suggest everyone make a pumpkin pie from scratch!(Pumpkin Pie)
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