No-bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie – Texanerin Baking

This no-bake pumpkin cheesecake pie has a graham cracker crust and three layers, nevertheless it’s truly tremendous straightforward. You make the cheesecake filling, take away a fourth, and add pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice to that. It may be made historically, complete wheat or gluten-free.

It additionally freezes nice, so you may put together the pie now and pull it out throughout Thanksgiving dinner, because it defrosts fairly rapidly. Identical with these Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars!

This is similar recipe as my Spider Pie, so when you’ve learn that submit, there’s no must learn this one. It’s the identical recipe, minus the spiderweb and spider household on high.

Since I acquired a number of “Halloween is evil” emails this yr, I believed I’d submit this pie once more as an possibility for Thanksgiving dessert! With out that menacing mama Oreo spider and her infants.

As I typed this out simply now, I spotted I’ve by no means gotten a “Thanksgiving is evil” e-mail, though it positively has a extra problematic historical past than Halloween. 🤔 Anyhow. No person is right here for that dialogue, so right here’s a pie!

And I’ll be again in a number of days with a completely new pie recipe good for Thanksgiving or another day.

Elements

Right here’s an outline of every part you’ll want for this pie.

The complete recipe with measurements and directions is on the backside of the submit, earlier than the feedback part.

The crust

It’s your primary however extremely tasty, no-bake graham cracker crust. You need to use store-bought graham crackers or make your personal do-it-yourself graham crackers when you’re searching for a time killer.

Making do-it-yourself crackers after which smashing them to crumbs can be a bit time-consuming and to me – a bit unhappy, however the possibility is there do you have to not just like the elements in store-bought graham crackers.

I exploit the grain-free Honey Cinnamon Seed & Nut Flour Candy Thins from Easy Mills. My photographer used common graham crackers within the images.

You’ll want a field and a half of the Easy Mills cookies, they usually’re fairly costly, in order that isn’t precisely a perfect resolution. However I had two containers about to run out, which had gotten misplaced within the pantry, so it was the proper use for them. And the crust was implausible.

So what you do for the crust is combine collectively all of the crust elements and press into the pie pan. Then, you freeze it whilst you put together the filling.

Freezing every layer as you go makes it simpler to get neat, clear layers. When you’re in a rush and don’t have time to freeze every layer, as was the case for me a number of occasions, the layers nonetheless come out wanting fairly first rate. Simply not fairly as good.

You probably have another no-bake pie crust that you simply like instead of a graham cracker crust, you should utilize that. A gingersnap crust can be an amazing different!

You could possibly additionally use a store-bought graham cracker crust for an excellent faster possibility.

Can I exploit an Oreo crust as an alternative?

I made this pie a number of weeks earlier than Halloween, added pure meals coloring to the vanilla layer, and froze it till our celebration. After I defrosted it, I made a decision to not serve it to visitors as a result of it tasted so odd.

I feel it was the chocolate crust. Or perhaps it was the meals coloring, which is made out of fruit and veggies. However the coloring is meant to be flavorless.

I’m not an enormous fan of blending chocolate and pumpkin collectively, so perhaps it was simply me. I don’t know. I’d extremely suggest the graham cracker crust to be on the secure facet!

By the best way, this pie freezes nice with the graham cracker crust. I did that a number of occasions in the course of the testing course of, and the style and texture have been good after defrosting.

Cheesecake filling

All the no-bake pumpkin cheesecakes I discovered use pudding combine or different processed stuff I attempt to keep away from. I didn’t use something like that, and I’m actually so pleased with the outcomes right here!

Sure, the graham crackers are processed, however I give do-it-yourself choices for these.

The cheesecake a part of this pie accommodates all the same old pumpkin cheesecake elements however no eggs. When you take pleasure in tasting unbaked pumpkin cheesecake batter, you’re going to like this recipe.

The filling of this pie is firmer than unbaked batter however has the identical style.

And also you don’t must make separate vanilla and pumpkin cheesecake filling. Like I mentioned above, you make the vanilla filling, take away 1/4 of it, after which add the pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice.

You then unfold half of the vanilla filling over the ready frozen crust, adopted by the pumpkin layer, and the remaining vanilla filling goes on high.

Gluten-free possibility

You need to use any gluten-free graham crackers for the crust. I really like the “graham crackers” from Easy Mills, however utilizing these makes this a brilliant costly pie.

I hope you’ll take pleasure in this no-bake pumpkin cheesecake pie! I’d love so that you can go away a remark beneath when you attempt it out. Thanks!

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• Prep Time: 20 min
• Prepare dinner Time: 0 min
• Prepared in: 20 min
• Yield: 8 slices

Elements

For the crust:

• 1 1/2 cups (180 grams) graham cracker crumbs (from about 12 full sheets)
• 1/4 cup (50 grams) brown sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 6 tablespoons (84 grams) unsalted butter, melted

For the filling:

• two 8-ounce (225-gram) packages full-fat cream cheese, room temp
• 1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, room temp
• 2 cups (240 grams) powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 7.5oz (212 grams) canned pumpkin puree (that is 1/2 of a 15-ounce can)

Instructions

Put together the crust:

1. In a medium mixing bowl, stir collectively the graham cracker crumbs, brown sugar and salt till nicely mixed.
2. Stir within the butter till nicely mixed.
3. Press onto the underside and up the perimeters of an ungreased 9” pie pan. Pat it as evenly as you will get it. It’ll be thick! Freeze the crust whilst you put together the filling.

Put together the filling:

4. In a big mixing bowl with an electrical hand mixer beat the cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, vanilla and salt till gentle and fluffy.
5. Take away 1/4 (197 grams) of the cheesecake filling to a different medium mixing bowl, and to that new bowl (with 197 grams of filling), beat within the pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice on low till mixed. Put aside.
6. Unfold 1/2 (294 grams) of the white filling over the frozen pie crust (it’ll have frozen fairly rapidly).
7. Place within the freezer for about 20-Half-hour or till agency sufficient to simply unfold the pumpkin layer excessive.
8. Then unfold all the pumpkin filling over the first layer of cheesecake.
9. Place within the freezer for about 20-40 minutes or till agency sufficient to simply unfold the second cheesecake layer excessive.
10. Unfold the second half of the white filling over the pumpkin layer.
11. Place within the freezer for an additional 20-40 minutes or till agency sufficient to chop practically and serve.
12. You possibly can cowl and freezer in an hermetic bag for as much as 3 months or cowl and refrigerate for as much as 4 days. It will be fairly delicate is simply refrigerated. I desire it frozen and to thaw for about 20 minutes earlier than serving.

Notes

1. When you reside exterior of North America and have the sort of cream cheese that is meant for toast (that is available in a bit of plastic tub) fairly than American type brick cream cheese, then get two 300-gram packages of cream cheese, place it within the middle of a cheesecloth, and wring out the liquid till you’ve gotten 450 grams of cream cheese left.

• When you’re gluten-free, be certain that to make use of GF graham cracker crumbs. I like Easy Mills Honey Cinnamon Seed & Nut Flour Candy Thins.

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