Paradise Pumpkin Pie

CoolMonday's Note:

This pie gets a lot of mmmmm's. It is two separate layers and looks beautiful when sliced. I make it every year for the holidays and family won't accept anything else. easy easy easy and comes out perfect every time

• Total Time: 1 hrs 20 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs 5 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

Cheese cake layer

• 8 ounces cream cheese
• ¼ cup white sugar
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 unbaked deep dish pie shell

Pumpkin layer

• 1 ¼ cups pumpkin
• ½ cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon (powdered)
• ¼ teaspoon nutmeg (powdered)
• ¼ teaspoon ginger (powdered)
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 cup evaporated milk
• 2 beaten eggs
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup
• walnuts or pecans , for decoration

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Combine cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, egg.
3. Pour into pastry shell.
4. Refrigerate at least 1/2 hour, or until cheesecake is firm. It has to be firm before you spoon on the pumpkin mixture.
5. Combine remaining ingredients except for syrup and nuts.
6. Spoon carefully over cream cheese mixture.
7. Bake 65-70 minutes -- when cool, brush with maple syrup and decorate with walnuts or pecans.

Reviews

[sapowell]

Made this for Thanksgiving, but instead of decorating the top with pecans, I placed a layed of candied walnuts on top of the cream cheese layer before adding the pupkin layer. Very big hit!

[Tiggrr]

This was an awesome combination of my two favorites. I did up the cream cheese to 12 oz and increased the sugar to 1/2 cup to adjust for the increase but otherwise followed the directions to a tee. My DS has given it the thumbs up and has begged for more last night and today. We had this for our Thanksgiving dinner.

[Dotty2]

A wonderful dessert that was served for Christmas dinner. It is so very good and the recipe will now be in my keepers file. I followed the recipe with no changes and served it with nutri whip. Loved it! Thank you for sharing this great recipe.