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Pumpkin Torte
- Prep time
- 30
- Total Time
- 60
- Servings
- 12
Move over, pumpkin pie! This is the dessert to bring to your next holiday gathering. Multilayered, buttery-good and lively with cinnamon spice, it comes from Beverley Thurber of Vermont, member of an Organic Valley farm family.
Ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1⁄3 cup plus 1 1/4 cups sugar, divided
- 8 tablespoons Organic Valley Butter, melted (1/2 cup)
- 8 ounces Organic Valley Cream Cheese (one package)
- 2 Organic Valley Large Brown Eggs
- 2 cups pumpkin puree (homemade or canned)
- 3 Organic Valley Egg yolks
- 1⁄2 cup Organic Valley Milk (whole or reduced fat)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄4 ounce unflavored gelatin (one envelope)
- 1⁄4 cup cold water
- 1 cup Organic Valley Heavy Whipping Cream, whipped to firm peaks
Directions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Combine graham cracker crumbs, 1/3 cup of the sugar and melted butter in a bowl. Stir to combine. Press the crumb mixture evenly in the bottom of a 13-by-9-by-2-inch baking pan.
- Combine 3/4 cup of the sugar and cream cheese in a bowl. Beat until the mixture is smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time. Spread this custard mixture over the crust. Bake until the custard is set, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool.
- To make the pumpkin filling: Combine pumpkin, egg yolks, milk, remaining 1/2 cup sugar, salt and cinnamon in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, just until the mixture comes to a boil. Remove saucepan from the heat.
- Dissolve the gelatin in the cold water in a small bowl. Stir the gelatin mixture into the pumpkin mixture. Spread this over the cooled crust. Cool off the torte to room temperature, then chill it thoroughly.
- Place a dollop of whipped cream on each serving.
Courtesy of Beverly Thurber
Comments
do I put it in before the pumpkin or on top of it?
Thanks.
Hi Annette, The custard gets spread onto the crust in step 2, before the pumpkin.
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