Pumpkin Orange Cheesecake
This is by far the best pumpkin cheesecake I have ever made. Recipe is courtesy of Sunset Magazine, with only a few minor spice changes on my end. Simply Fantastic!!! Now you know why we like to cook in Lake Chelan.
Pumpkin-Orange Cheesecake with Chocolate Crust and Salted Caramel
- YIELD: Serves 16
- PREP TIME:3 Hours
- CHILL:5 Hours
- COURSE: Desserts
Ingredients
- CRUST
- 1 package (9 oz.) chocolate wafer cookies
- 1/2 cup melted unsalted butter
- FILLING
- 3 packages (8 oz. each) cream cheese, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- Zest of 2 medium oranges
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- TOPPING
- 6 tablespoons store-bought caramel topping
- 1/8 teaspoon table salt
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped toasted pecans
- Flaked salt* (such as Cyprus sea salt flakes or Maldon salt), for garnish
Preparation
1. Make crust: Preheat oven to 350°. Whirl cookies in a food processor until finely ground. Whirl in butter just until incorporated. Pour crumbs into a 9-in. springform pan and press over bottom and about 1 in. up inside of pan. Bake 7 minutes, then let cool on a rack. Reduce oven heat to 300°.
2. Make filling: In a large bowl, with a mixer on medium speed, beat cream cheese, sugars, and flour until smooth. Beat in eggs on low speed 1 at a time. Add remaining filling ingredients and beat until just blended. Wrap bottom of pan with foil, pressing it up the outside.
3. Set springform pan in a roasting pan and pour filling into crust. Pour enough boiling water into roasting pan to come about halfway up side of springform pan. Bake until cheesecake barely jiggles in the center when gently shaken, about 1 1/4 hours. Let cheesecake cool on a rack 1 hour, then chill until cold, at least 5 hours.
4. Whisk caramel topping and table salt in a bowl and spoon over cheesecake. Arrange pecans around rim and sprinkle flaked salt over pecans.
*Flaked salt has large, hollow, crunchy crystals. Find it at well-stocked grocery stores and online.
Note: Nutritional analysis is per slice.
Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 429
- Calories from fat: 60%
- Protein: 6g
- Fat: 28g
- Saturated fat: 14g
- Carbohydrate: 40g
- Fiber: 1.5g
- Sodium: 318mg
- Cholesterol: 116mg
More Lake Chelan Recipes Coming!