Pumpkin Cheese Swirled Pie Food

PUMPKIN CREAM CHEESE SWIRL PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place pie crust in a 9-inch glass pie plate and flute the edges. Bake for 6-8 minutes or until light golden brown. Reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees.
• In large bowl, beat sugar, flour and cream cheese with electric mixer on low speed until smooth; reserve 1/2 cup of cream cheese mixture in a small bowl. Add vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, eggs and pumpkin to cream cheese mixture. Beat on medium speed until smooth. Pour into crust.
• Stir cream into reserved cream cheese mixture. Spoon over pumpkin mixture. Cut through cream cheese and pumpkin mixtures with knife to create a marbled design.
• Bake for 35 to 45 minutes or until pie is set. Cool 30 minutes. Cover and refrigerate at least 4 hours before serving. Store leftovers in refrigerator.

PUMPKIN SWIRL CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Mix ginger snap crumbs, pecans and butter; press firmly onto bottom and 1 inch up side of 9-inch springform pan.
• Beat cream cheese, 3/4 cup of the sugar and the vanilla with electric mixer until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing on low speed after each addition just until blended. Remove 1-1/2 cups of the batter; place in small bowl. Stir remaining 1/4 cup sugar, the pumpkin and spices into remaining batter. Spoon half of the pumpkin batter into crust; top with spoonfuls of half of the reserved plain batter. Repeat layers. Cut through batters with knife several times for marble effect.
• Bake 55 min. or until center is almost set. Cool completely. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight. Cut into 16 slices. Store leftover cheesecake in refrigerator.

SWIRLED PUMPKIN-CREAM CHEESE BARS

Steps:

• In a bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar until smooth.
• Beat in 2 eggs, pumpkin, and 1/3 cup water until well blended, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. In another bowl, mix flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and nutmeg; stir or beat into butter mixture until well blended.
• Spread batter evenly in a buttered and floured 10- by 15-inch baking pan.
• In a bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat cream cheese, remaining egg, and remaining 1/4 cup sugar until smooth.
• Drop cream cheese mixture in 24 evenly spaced 1-tablespoon portions over batter.
• Pull a knife tip through filling to swirl slightly into batter.
• Bake in a 350° oven until center of pumpkin batter (not cream cheese mixture) springs back when touched, about 30 minutes.
• Let cool completely in pan, then cut into 24 bars.