Swirled pumpkin cream cheese tart
Swirled pumpkin cream cheese tart recipe in the pie category
Recipe ingredients:
- Almond crust:
- 1 cup graham cracker crumbs, 20
- 1/4 cup ground almonds
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
- Swirled filling:
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup solid pack pumpkin
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
Recipe method:
- Combine crumbs, nuts and granulated sugar in a small bowl.
- Stir in butter until all ingredients are moistened evenly.
- Press onto bottom and up side of 9 inch pie plate.
- Chill while making filling.
- Beat cream cheese and sugar in large mixer bowl until smooth.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Remove 1/2 cup cream cheese batter.
- Stir pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice into remaining cream cheese batter in bowl. Spoon into crust.
- Spoon reserved cream cheese batter over pumpkin batter in crust. Swirl with spoon.
- Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F oven for 40 to 50 minutes or until knife inserted halfway between outside edge and center comes out clean.
- Cool on wire rack. Chill until firm.
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