Thanksgiving Recipes
Pumpkin Toffee Cheesecake
Prep: 30 min | Bake: 1 hr 15 min | Yield: 16 servings
Ingredients
Crust
- 1 3/4 cups (about 14 to 16) shortbread cookies, crushed
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
Cheesecake
- 3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
- 1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
- 1 (15 ounce) can Libby's® 100% Pure Pumpkin
- 2/3 cup (5 fluid ounce can) Nestlé® Carnation® Evaporated Milk
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup (about 25 to 30) crushed toffee candies
Topping
- 1 (8 ounce) container sour cream (room temperature)
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Caramel ice cream topping (optional)
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Crust
- Combine cookie crumbs and butter in small bowl.
- Press onto bottom and 1 inch up side of a 9 inch springform pan.
- Bake for 6 to 8 minutes (do not allow to brown).
- Cool on wire rack for 10 minutes.
Cheesecake
- Beat cream cheese and brown sugar in large mixer bowl until creamy.
- Add pumpkin, evaporated milk, eggs, cornstarch and cinnamon; beat well.
- Pour into crust.
- Bake for 60 to 65 minutes or until edge is set but center still moves slightly.
- Remove from oven; top with toffee candy pieces.
Topping
- Combine sour cream, granulated sugar and vanilla extract in small bowl; mix well.
- Spread over warm cheesecake.
- Bake for 8 minutes.
- Cool completely in pan on wire rack.
- Refrigerate for several hours or overnight.
- Remove side of springform pan.
- Drizzle with caramel topping before serving.
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from: Nestlé® and meals.com