Impress your guests this Easter with a creamy pumpkin pie cheesecake. Served with figs and salted caramel sauce, it’s a show-stopping dessert.
Serves1616
Cook time1 hr 25 mins1 hour 25 minutes
Prep time20 mins20 minutes, + Chilling & cooling time
+ Chilling & cooling time
Ingredients
250g Arnott’s Butternut Snap Cookie biscuits
100g Arnott’s Granita biscuits
125g butter, melted
500g Kent pumpkin, seeded, peeled, coarsely chopped
750g cream cheese, softened
300g sour cream
2 Coles Australian Free Range Eggs
1/4 cup (55g) brown sugar
2 tbs Coles Finest Pure Canadian Maple Syrup
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Pinch of ground nutmeg
Pinch of ground cloves
1/3 cup (75g) caster sugar
Whipped cream, to serve
Salted caramel sauce, to serve
Figs, quartered, to serve
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Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 200°C. Grease a 20cm (base measurement) springform pan and line the base and side with baking paper. Place the combined biscuits in a food processor and process until finely crushed. Add the butter and process until combined. Spoon into the prepared pan. Use a straight-sided glass to spread and press the biscuit mixture evenly over the base and side of the pan. Place in the fridge for 30 mins to chill.
Step 2
Meanwhile, line a baking tray with baking paper. Place the pumpkin on the lined tray and bake for 20-25 mins or until tender. Set aside to cool.
Step 3
Transfer pumpkin to a clean food processor and process until smooth. Add half the cream cheese, half the sour cream, 1 egg, the brown sugar, maple syrup, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Process until smooth. Push through a fine sieve into a bowl.
Step 4
Place the remaining cream cheese, remaining sour cream, remaining egg and the caster sugar in a clean food processor and process until smooth.
Step 5
Spoon the pumpkin mixture and cream cheese mixture, in alternating batches, into the prepared pan. Use a skewer to gently marble. Place on a baking tray. Bake for 1 hour or until just set. Turn oven off. Leave cheesecake in the oven, with the door ajar, for 2 hours to cool. Transfer to the fridge to chill.
Step 6
Place the cheesecake on a serving plate. Top with whipped cream and drizzle with caramel sauce. Top with the fig. Serve immediately.
Ripple effect
For an impressive swirl pattern, use a skewer rather than a knife to gently marble the cake batter in the pan.
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