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The Best Pumpkin Pie Recipe Recipe

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Category:
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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Make your pie curst from scratch or buy store bought pie crust or make one of the cust recipes in this book..
Pumpkin Pie Filling:
1 - 8- ounce pkg. Cream Cheese softened
1 - 15 ounce can Pure Pumpkin Puree
1/2 cup Butter melted
2 teaspoons Vanilla
3 Eggs
3 1/4 cups Powdered Sugar
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Nutmeg or 1 teaspoon Pumpkin Pie Spice
1/4 teaspoon Salt
Homemade Whipped Cream:
2 cups Heavy Cream
1/2 cup Powdered Sugar
Directions:
Directions:
Make pie crust recipe according to recipe directions. Find the recipe for an all-butter pie crust here. Let dough chill in refrigerator, tightly wrapped.
In mixing bowl, beat cream cheese for 5 minutes until light and fluffy, scraping down the sides often with spatula. The whisk attachment works the best to whip the cream cheese.
Add pumpkin and mix for another 5 minutes.
Add melted butter and vanilla and mix for 1 minute.
Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
Add powdered sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg or pumpkin pie spice and salt.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Place pie dough in a deep-dish pie pan.
Pour pumpkin pie filling into pie crust and place pie plate on baking sheet. Depending on the size of your pie pan, you may have some extra filling.
Bake for 15 minutes. Lower the temperature of the oven to 350 degrees and bake for an additional 42 - 48 minutes. Watch the crust carefully to make sure it isn't becoming too brown. Cover with pie cover or foil to prevent browning.
Let chill in refrigerator for 4 hours.
Top with freshly whipped cream.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
8 Servings
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
20 minutes
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Bake time is 55 minutes. Find a pie crust recipe in this book because the one with this recipe was two pages..yikes! Ok so because it is an all butter pie crust I have added it to this book because the others use Crisco and butter is always better, XOXO Mom.

 

 

 

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