Pumpkin Cheesecake With Bourbon Spiked Cream Recipes

Steps:

• Topping:
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon bourbon whiskey
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• For the crust: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Butter a 9-inch springform pan and line the bottom and sides with parchment paper.
• Combine the pecans, flour, brown sugar, graham cracker crumbs, butter, and egg yolk together in a large bowl. Press the mixture evenly onto the bottom of the springform pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Set aside to cool.
• Turn the oven down to 300 degrees F.
• For the filling: Combine the pumpkin, brown sugar, eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Set aside.
• Use an electric mixer to beat the cream cheese, maple syrup, and bourbon until smooth. Combine with the sour cream and pumpkin mixture. Pour over the prebaked crust. Bake for 60 to 70 minutes, or until the center shows little to no movement when the pan is tapped. Set aside to cool.
• Increase oven temperature to 350 degrees F.
• For the topping: Combine the sour cream, bourbon, and sugar together in a small bowl.
• Spread over the cooled cheesecake. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and let stand for 15 minutes. Refrigerate for 3 hours or until well chilled. Remove from the springform pan and peel away the parchment paper. Slice and serve.

Steps:

• Make the crust:
• In a bowl combine the cracker crumbs, the pecans, and the sugars, stir in the butter, and press the mixture into the bottom and 1/2 inch up the side of a buttered 9-inch springform pan. Chill the crust for 1 hour.
• Make the filling:
• In a bowl whisk together the pumpkin, the egg, the cinnamon, the nutmeg, the ginger, the salt, and the brown sugar. In a large bowl with an electric mixer cream together the cream cheese and the granulated sugar, beat in the cream, the cornstarch, the vanilla, the bourbon liqueur, and the pumpkin mixture, and beat the filling until it is smooth.
• Pour the filling into the crust, bake the cheesecake in the middle of a preheated 350°F. oven for 50 to 55 minutes, or until the center is just set, and let it cool in the pan on a rack for 5 minutes.
• Make the topping:
• In a bowl whisk together the sour cream, the sugar, and the bourbon liqueur.
• Spread the sour cream mixture over the top of the cheesecake and bake the cheesecake for 5 minutes more. Let the cheesecake cool in the pan on a rack and chill it, covered, overnight. Remove the side of the pan and garnish the top of the cheesecake with the pecans.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C.)
• In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Blend in sour cream, vanilla and spice. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Blend in pumpkin puree until no streaks remain. Pour filling into 2 crusts.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until filling is set. Allow to cool, then refrigerate at least 4 hours before serving.

Steps:

• Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 325 degrees F.
• Brush a 10-inch springform pan with some of the butter. Stir the remaining butter with the crumbs, 1/4 cup of the sugar and a pinch of salt in a bowl. Press the crumb mixture into the bottom and up the sides of the pan, packing it tightly and evenly. Bake until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool on a rack, then wrap the outside of the springform pan with foil and place in a roasting pan.
• Bring a medium pot of water to a boil. Meanwhile, beat the cream cheese with a mixer until smooth. Add the remaining 2 1/2 cups sugar and beat until just light, scraping down the sides of the bowl and beaters as needed. Beat in the sour cream, then add the pumpkin, eggs, vanilla, 1 teaspoon salt and the spices and beat until just combined. Pour into the cooled crust.
• Gently place the roasting pan in the oven (don't pull the rack out) and pour the boiling water into the roasting pan until it comes about halfway up the side of the springform pan. Bake until the outside of the cheesecake sets but the center is still loose, about 1 hour 45 minutes. Turn off the oven and open the door briefly to let out some heat. Leave the cheesecake in the oven for 1 more hour, then carefully remove from the roasting pan and cool on a rack. Run a knife around the edges, cover and refrigerate at least 8 hours or overnight.
• Bring the cheesecake to room temperature 30 minutes before serving. Unlock and remove the springform ring. To finish, place a dollop of the whipped cream on each slice and sprinkle with the toasted pecans.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Brush the inside of a 10-inch springform pan with 1 teaspoon softened butter.
• Mix graham cracker crumbs, cinnamon, 1/4 cup white sugar, and 1/4 cup melted butter together in a bowl until incorporated. Press mixture into the bottom of the springform pan.
• Beat cream cheese and 1 1/2 cup white sugar together in a bowl until smooth. Add eggs, 1 at a time, blending in each egg before adding the next. Stir in cream, pumpkin, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, and pumpkin pie spice until thoroughly blended. Pour cream cheese mixture over the graham cracker crust.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cheesecake is set in the middle, 1 1/2 hours. Remove from oven and let rest for 10 minutes, or leave on oven rack with door ajar for up to several hours.
• Beat sour cream, 1/2 cup sugar, and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract together in a bowl until smooth. Pour sour cream topping over cheesecake. Chill in refrigerator before removing sides of pan, about 3 hours.

Steps:

• For the Crust:.
• Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 325 degrees.
• Spray bottom and sides of a 9-inch spring form pan evenly with non-stick cooking spray.
• Pulse crackers, sugar and spices in a food processor until evenly and finely ground, about fiften 2-second pulses.
• Transfer crumbs to medium bowl, drizzle melted butter over, and mix with rubber spatula until evenly moistened.
• Turn crumbs into the pan and, using your hand, spread crumbs into and even layer.
• Using a flat-bottomed ramekin or drinking glass, press the crumbs evenly into the pan bottom, and then use a soup spoon to press and smooth crumbs into edges of pan.
• Bake until fragrant and browned about the edges, about 15 minutes. Cool on a wire rack while making the filling.
• For the Filling:.
• Bring about 4 quarts of water to a simmer in a stockpot.
• Whisk the sugar, spices, and in a small bowl; set aside.
• To dry the pumpkin, line a baking sheet with a triple layer of paper towels.
• Spread pumpkin on paper towels in a roughly even layer.
• Cover the pumpkin with a second triple layer of paper towels and press firmly until paper towels are saturated.
• Peel back the top layer of towels and discard.
• Grasp bottom towels and fold pumpkin in half; peel back towels; repeat and flip pumpkin onto baking sheet and then discard the towels.
• In a standing mixer fitted with a flat beater, beat the cream cheese at medium speed to break up and soften slightly, about 1 minutes. Scrape beater and bottom and sides of the bwol well with a rubber spatula.
• Add about one third of the sugar mixture and beat at medium-low speed until combined, about 1 minute; scrape the bowl and add remaining sugar in two additions, scraping bowl after each addition.
• Add pumpkin, vanilla, and lemon juice and beat at medium speed until combined, about 45 seconds; scrap bowl.
• Add 3 eggs and beat at medium-low until incorporated, about 1 minute; scrape bowl. Add remaining 2 eggs and beat at medium-low until incorporated, about 45 seconds; scrape bowl.
• Add heavy cream and beat at low speed until combined, about 45 seconds; using a spatula, scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl by hand to make sure everything is incorporated.
• Set the springform pan with cooled crust on an 18-inch square doubled layer of heavy-duty foil and wrap the bottom and sides with foil.
• Set wrapped springform pan in a roasting pan. Pour the filling into the springform pan and smoothe the surface.
• Set the roasting pan in the oven and pour enough boiling water to come about halfway up the side of the springform pan.
• Bake until the center of the cake is slightly wobbly when the pan is shaken, and the center of the cake registers 145-150 degrees on an isntant-read thermometer, about 1 1/2 hours (see description about baking times).
• Set the roasting pan on wire rack and use paring knife to loosen cake from the sides of the pan.
• Cool until water is just warm, about 45 minutes.
• Remove springform pan from water bath, discard the foil and set on a wire rack, continue to cool until barely warm, about 3 hours.
• Wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled, at least 4 hours or up to 3 days.
• For the Cream Topping:.
• In a standing mixer bowl, wisk heavy cream, sour cream, brown sugar, and salt until combined.
• Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to serve cheesecake at least 4 hours or up to 24 hours, stirring once or twice during chilling to ensure that the sugar dissolves.
• When ready to serve cheesecake, add bourbon and beat misture with whisk attachment at medium speed until small bubbles form around edges, about 40 seconds; increase speed to high and continue to beat until fluggy and doubled in volume, about 1 minutes longer. Spoon Cream on individual slices of pie.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine the crumbs, pecans and butter together.
• Mix well and press into a 12 inch spring form pan.
• In a food processor mix cream cheese until smooth.
• Add brown sugar and blend.
• Add the eggs, ONE AT A TIME, and thoroughly incorporate.
• Add the heavy cream, flour, salt, cinnamon and vanilla and blend until smooth.
• Add pumpkin and continue mixing until smooth.
• Pour into pan, place pan into a waterbath and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• While cake is baking,combine whipped cream and bourbon together.
• Allow cake to cool COMPLETELY before removing spring form.
• Cut and garnish with spiked cream.

Steps:

• For crust:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 9-inch springform pan with 2 3/4-inch-high sides. Grind first 4 ingredients in processor until nut mixture sticks together. Press evenly onto bottom of pan. Bake crust until golden, about 15 minutes. Cool completely. Wrap outside of pan in triple layer of heavy-duty foil.
• For filling:
• Using mixer, beat cream cheese, sugar, and lemon peel in large bowl until smooth. Beat in eggs 1 at a time, then pumpkin, yogurt, flour, vanilla, spices, and salt. Pour into pan.
• Set springform pan in roasting pan. Pour enough hot water into roasting pan to come halfway up sides of cheesecake. Place in oven. Bake until outer 3 inches puff slightly and center is softly set, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Cool in water bath 30 minutes. Remove from water. Cut around sides of cake to loosen. Refrigerate in pan until cold, about 4 hours. Cover and chill overnight.
• For sauce:
• Bring sugar, cream, butter, corn syrup, and salt to boil in deep medium saucepan, whisking until sugar dissolves. Reduce heat to medium; boil 1 minute without stirring. Remove from heat. Stir in bourbon, then pecans. Cool, stirring occasionally.
• Remove foil. Cut around pan sides; remove sides. Cut cheesecake into wedges; spoon sauce over.