Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pumpkin cheesecake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pumpkin Cheesecake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Pumpkin Cheesecake is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have pumpkin cheesecake using 18 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Pumpkin Cheesecake:

1. Take For the Crust
2. Get 1 cup Pecans, toasted and cooled
3. Prepare 1 tbsp Sugar
4. Prepare 1 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
5. Make ready 1 dash ground cinnamon (optional)
6. Prepare 4 tbsp Unsalted butter, melted
7. Make ready For The Filling
8. Take 3 -8 ounce packages of Cream Cheese, softened
9. Prepare 1 cup Sugar
10. Prepare 1 cup Sour Cream
11. Get 1 cup Pumpkin - canned, solid packed
12. Prepare 1 tbsp Vanilla extract
13. Make ready 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
14. Make ready 3 Eggs
15. Prepare For Pecan Brittle Topping (not shown)
16. Make ready 1/2 cup Sugar
17. Prepare 1 tbsp Water
18. Make ready 1/3 cup Pecans, toasted and coarsely chopped

Instructions to make Pumpkin Cheesecake:

1. For The Crust
2. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease 9inch springform pan.
3. In food processor fitted with metal blade, pulse pecans with sugar until finely ground. In a bowl combine pecan mixture with graham cracker crumbs and cinnamon if using. Drizzle butter over mixture and toss with a fork until moist. Dumb into springform pan and press crumb mixture onto bottom and up sides of pan.
4. Bake 8-10 minutes or until edges are lightly golden and bottom is set. Let cool on wire rack, wrap outside of pan with heavy duty aluminum foil.
5. Lower oven to 325°F
6. For The Filling
7. In a large bowl beat cream cheese on medium/high speed until fluffy. Gradually add sugar and beat until smooth, scraping down the sides of bowl as you do. Lower speed to medium and add sour cream, pumpkin, vanilla and pumpkin pie spice. Beat in eggs, one at a time until just incorporated.
8. Set springform pan in large roasting pan in center of oven. Pour cream cheese mixture over crust. Fill roasting pan with enough hot water to reach halfway up sides of springform pan.
9. Bake for 65-75 minutes, or until center is almost set but still slightly jiggly ( my cousin calls this a firm jiggle). Turn off oven and let cool in roasting pan for 15-20 minutes. Remove roasting pan from oven, do this carefully so as not to splash water. Remove foil, leave cheesecake in the oven and close door to continue cooling process.
10. Once warm/room temp, remove from oven and cool on wire rack. When cool put in fridge.
11. Cool in fridge for 8 hours or overnight. Remove sides of pan and garnish with pecans (shown) or pecan brittle.
12. Enjoy!!!!
13. Pecan Brittle Optional Topping
14. Line baking sheet with wax paper. In heavy duty saucepan bring sugar and water to a boil over medium/high heat, stirring to dissolve sugar. Boil 5-7 minutes or until syrup is slightly amber. Working quickly, remove from heat and stir in pecans to coat. Immediately pour onto baking sheet, spreading with spatula. Cool 20 minutes, remove wax paper and break brittle into small pieces.
15. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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