Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Caramel Pumpkin Butter Cheesecake

Caramel Pumpkin Butter Cheesecake


Caramel pumpkin butter swirled in a cheesecake, baked in an Oreo cookie crust covered with caramel. A deliciously festive Fall or holiday dessert.

Recipe for caramel pumpkin butter swirled in a cheesecake, baked in an Oreo cookie crust covered with caramel. A deliciously festive Fall dessert.


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Do you want something different for your holiday dessert spread? [Want a holiday dessert spread? Hmmm . . . just thinking about a plate of sides followed by a plate of desserts . . .] Well hold onto your forks, because next month I'll be participating in a week long HashtagChristmasWeekPalooza and I'm working on my cookies as we speak. [Kidding. I'm sitting typing and doing the mental prep of cookie baking--and I've stocked up on flour (KAF is on sale!), butter and eggs.]

Recipe for caramel pumpkin butter swirled in a cheesecake, baked in an Oreo cookie crust covered with caramel. A deliciously festive Fall dessert.


While I like the occasional trip to the Cheesecake Factory to pick up a slice in celebration, I'm not much on making cheesecakes. A springform pan-full is too much for our family. I opted to make a cheesecake in an Oreo cookie crust [no sponsorship implied, just labeling the specific brand so you can have success in your recipe like I did] since it's smaller, giving me less servings we need to eat.


Recipe for caramel pumpkin butter swirled in a cheesecake, baked in an Oreo cookie crust covered with caramel. A deliciously festive Fall dessert.


I figured my Easy Spiced Caramel Pumpkin Butter would be wonderful in a cheesecake, and I was not disappointed. Caramel on the bottom, swirls of caramel pumpkin butter along the top--this cheesecake rocked. If you haven't made your own Caramel Pumpkin Butter you have my blessing to buy a jar of pumpkin butter and give that a try.


Recipe for caramel pumpkin butter swirled in a cheesecake, baked in an Oreo cookie crust covered with caramel. A deliciously festive Fall dessert.


I'm not reinventing the wheel here--the basic cheesecake ingredients came from the Oreo website and I just removed the cookies and added caramel, and my caramel pumpkin butter.

For more recipes using pumpkins, please see my Pumpkin Recipes Collection. It's part of the Visual Recipe Index by Ingredient, a resource for folks like me whose compost overrunneth with pumpkins . . . or maybe that's just me. Maybe other folks just feel like getting pumpkins in the farm share or stocking up on cans of puree. 


Recipe for caramel pumpkin butter swirled in a cheesecake, baked in an Oreo cookie crust covered with caramel. A deliciously festive Fall dessert.

Recipe for caramel pumpkin butter swirled in a cheesecake, baked in an Oreo cookie crust covered with caramel. A deliciously festive Fall dessert.


Caramel Pumpkin Butter Cheesecake (basic cheesecake ingredients from Oreo website)

Ingredients

  • 1 6 ounce Oreo cookie crust (or the chocolate cookie crust of your choice)
  • 3 to 4 Tablespoons caramel sundae topping
  • 2 8 ounce packages of cream cheese
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 5 Tablespoons Easy Spiced Caramel Pumpkin Butter or the pumpkin butter of your choice

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Pour caramel topping over bottom of cookie crust. Set aside, on a baking sheet.
  2. Beat together cream cheese, vanilla, sugar and eggs until well blended. Pour over prepared cookie crust.
  3. Dollop (!) a Tablespoon at a time of Caramel Pumpkin Butter on top of cheesecake batter. Use a knife to swirl a prettier pattern than I managed to make.
  4. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until edges are lightly browned and center is about set. Cool completely.
  5. Serve with whipped cream. Leftovers keep in the fridge for a couple of days.

Recipe for caramel pumpkin butter swirled in a cheesecake, baked in an Oreo cookie crust covered with caramel. A deliciously festive Fall dessert.

4 comments:

  1. There's just something magically delicious about caramel. It's my kryptonite, that's if I gave a hoot about avoiding it, which I don't. Come to mama.

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    1. Meghan,
      I wonder what my kryptonite is. Probably ruffled potato chips and my spiced cottage cheese chip dip. Puffy heart love that stuff.
      See, you're calling yourself mama already! Good one!
      Thanks!

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  2. Kirsten, you've got me craving cheesecake now! Thanks for all the new links - it was exciting to see all your comments. You are a star! Cheers from Carole's Chatter

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    1. Carole,
      I've got about a serving and a half of Killer Brownie Cheesecake in the fridge right now. I think the kids have forgotten that we didn't eat the whole thing when we picked it up at the shop the other day. Now I feel compelled to eat it. Thanks!

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