Pumpkin Delight

Mysterygirl's Note:

Someone in my daughter's college speech class made this for their demonstration speech. My daughter loved it and got the recipe for me. I love it too.

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

Ingredients:

Servings: 15

• 1/2 cup margarine
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 3/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
• 5 ounces cream cheese
• 12 ounces Cool Whip
• 2 (15 ounce) cans pumpkin
• 1 (3 ounce) box instant vanilla pudding
• milk
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 4 ounces Cool Whip
• chopped pecans (optional and to taste)

Directions:

1. Mix margarine, sugar, graham cracker crumbs.
2. Press into a 9x13-inch pan.
3. Beat cream cheese until smooth.
4. Add 12 oz Cool Whip until blended; spread over crust.
5. Make pudding with ½ of the milk called for on the box.
6. Mix well with pumpkin and cinnamon.
7. Spread over first layer.
8. Spread cool whip over pumpkin layer and sprinkle with nuts.
9. Refrigerate until cold.

Reviews

[Karen=^..^=]

This was a huge hit at my daughter's Communion party! Looked and tasted delicious and was pretty easy to put together, too. I let it chill about 12 hours before serving and the flavors really came together. Lots of recipe requests, too! A couple of my kids said it tasted like pumpkin pie, which is their favorite. Thanks for posting this unique recipe :)

[jerseygirl1952]

I made this for Thanksgiving and I think I may have made a mistake. Like Gingerbear, we found the pumpkin filling should have been sweeter. The list of ingredients listed canned pumpkin but not what kind of canned pumpkin. I used the puree, but think that had I used pumpkin pie filling instead, this may have been more of what I was expecting. I'll try this again sometime and use the pie filling and see what happens. I think I will also use cream cheese flavored instant pudding mix in place of the vanilla. Since I may have used the wrong ingredient, I won't rate this at this time.

[okDianne]

I have been searching the internet for several hours for this recipe!!! I am really surprised that Libby's doesn't have this on their site. Plan to make this today to serve along with several other desserts on Thanksgiving! Thanks for sharing!!!