Pumpkin Cream Cheese Tart

1 cup graham cracker crumbs

1 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar, divided

6 tablespoons melted butter

16 oz. cream cheese, room temp.

16 oz can solid pack pumpkin

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp cloves

1/2 tsp salt

2 eggs

1 pint sour cream

1 tsp vanilla

1/4 cup brown sugar

Mix crumbs with the 1 tablespoon sugar and melted butter until well blended.  Place Tart Mold or Large Round Mold on Perforated Baking Sheet.  Press crumbs into the bottom of the mold: chill.

Beat cream cheese and 1 cup of the sugar until blended.  Beat in pumpkin, spices, salt and eggs, one at a time.  Pour into mold and bake in 350 degree oven for 50 minutes.  Remove cake from oven and let cool.  Mix sour cream, brown sugar and the vanilla together: spread over cooled pumpkin layer.  Chill before removing from mold and keep chilled before serving.  (I like to put mine in the freezer before unmolding . . .)


For the sprinkles on the top, I used 1/2 Tbsp. of cinnamon and 1 Tbsp. of Brown Sugar - mix and sprinkle.

Apple Blue Cheese Bacon Cheesecake

Contributed by Peggy Trowbridge Filippone
Via Bonnie Lowry

Yield: 10-12 Servings
Cook Time: 8-9 Hours

INGREDIENTS:
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 pound bacon, cooked, drained and crumbled (reserve 2 tablespoons of fat)
1/2 onion, diced
1 apple, peeled, cored, and diced
1 clove garlic, minced
Demarle at Home in the Kitchen Sea Salt –Sel Gris (GTS00001), to taste
Freshly ground pepper, to taste
16 ounces (2 large blocks) cream cheese, at room temperature
3 eggs
1/2 tablespoon Demarle at Home in the Kitchen Apple Pear Balsamic Vinegar (LOC00005)
1/8 cup whiskey
6 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
1 tablespoon minced chives or Demarle at Home in the Kitchen Roasted Garlic and Chive Herb Blend (DHM00004)
Sliced fresh apples, toast wedges and/or assorted cocktail crackers

TOOLS:
Flexipan® Fluted Bundt Mold (FM000486)
Medium Perforated Baking Sheet (MA435310)
Demarle Difference Gourmet Fry Pan- 10” (DD902832)
Mixing Bowl (TA000120)
Demarle Difference Santoku Chef’s Knife (DD800001)
Heat Resistant Spatula (TA000108)
Magnetic Dazzling Trio (GRP00001)

Preheat oven to 200 degrees F and place oven rack in center position. Place the Bundt Mold on the Perforated Baking Sheet. Dust mold with 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese.**

In Fry Pan sauté onion in bacon fat until softened and translucent. Add apple and garlic and continue to sauté over medium heat an additional 2 to 3 minutes until apple begin to soften. Remove from heat and season with salt and pepper. Let cool.

In Mixing Bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add eggs, Balsamic Vinegar and whiskey, beating until smooth. Stir in apple mixture, bacon, blue cheese, remaining Parmesan cheese and chives or Chive Herb Blend by hand.

Pour batter into mold and bake overnight for 8-9 hours. It should be fairly firm and slightly browned. Remove from oven and cool on a rack at least one hour. Cover the top of the cooled cheesecake with plastic wrap.

Invert onto serving dish. Refrigerate at least 1 hour. Reinvert and remove the plastic wrap. Refrigerate 1 hour.
To serve as an appetizer, cut slices with a knife dipped in warm water and garnish with fresh apple slices, toast wedges, baguette and/or cocktail crackers of choice.

** Per Bonnie Lowry, to help Parmesan cheese stick to the sides of the Mold, coat with vegetable oil before dusting with Parmesan cheese.

Candy Corn Cake

This cake was made in the Christmas Tree Mold. The branches were cut off to create the candy shape.

Thank you to Jodie Rindlisbacher for sharing her sister in law Jill’s creation.

1/2 cake mix baked according to package directions in the TREE mold…trim tree edges and trunk off.

FROSTING HINTS Candy Corn Cake

One tub of white frosting---frost top

Add Yellow food coloring to frost bottom

Add more yellow and red to make orange for middle.

Use the rest of the tub of orange frosting on cupcakes made with the rest of the cake mix in the TREE TRAY.

IDEA---Use actual candy corns to create face of pumpkin on orange cupcakes.

This candy corn cake would be great for a Thanksgiving cake as well

OR---create a horn of plenty.

Have Fun....Jodie

Pumpkin Muffin

Use the Charlotte Tray to create beautiful pumpkin muffins from your favorite recipes!

Pumpkin Jigglers

This creation was made by my brilliant friend, Dee Putnam. She took two jigglers made in the Petit Four Tray and set them together to make the pumpkin shape and then used a twig of a grape stem for the pumpkin stem. So cute!

Spice Cake with Whipped Topping

Recipe by Holly Klees:

In the Mixing Bowl, combine a whole package of the Apple Cinnamon Sweet Herb Blend and 4 oz of cream cheese. Mix together with beaters. In a separate Mixing Bowl, whip ½ cup heavy whipping cream until thick. Fold the contents of both bowls together and spread this on top of a prepared Demarle at Home in the Kitchen Spice Cake.