Pumpkin Cheese Cake with Ginger Snap Crust
Prep Time: 28 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
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Pumpkin cheesecake is a hard dessert to beat! You will love this recipe with a ginger snap crust!
Ingredients
Crust
- 2 cups ginger snap cookie crumbs
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1⁄4 cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
Cheesecake filling
- 4 cream cheese (8 oz. brick), softened
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1⁄4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 15 ounces can pumpkin puree
- 1⁄3 cup heavy cream
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees | Wrap a 9-inch springform pan with 2 layers of foil and set aside.
- In the bowl, mix together cookie crumbs, melted butter, sugar, and pumpkin pie spice.
- Put cookie crumbs in the bottom of the springform pan, press crumbs about 1-inch up the side of the pan. Bake for 8-10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, bring a pot of water on to boil.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, combine cream cheese, white sugar, and brown sugar and mix on high for 3 minutes.
- Add in eggs, pumpkin puree, cream, salt, vanilla, and pumpkin pie spice and mix until fully incorporated. Scrape down the side of the bowl as needed.
- Pour padder into prepared crust.
- Place the springform pan into a roasting pan and put it into the oven, CAREFULLY, pour the boiling water into the roasting pan until the water reaches halfway up the side of the cheesecake.
- Bake for 1 hour or until the outside of the cheesecake is set and the middle will still have a little jiggle to it.
- Turn oven off and crack the oven door open and leave cheesecake in the oven for 1 more hour.
- Remove cheesecake from the oven and allow to cool completely and then refrigerator for at least 6 hours before cutting into it.
- Enjoy with whipped cream!