- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour + cool overnight
- Total Time: 3 hours
- Yield: 16 servings 1x
- Category: dessert
- Method: baked
- Cuisine: french
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour + cool overnight
- Total Time: 3 hours
- Yield: 16 servings 1x
- Category: dessert
- Method: baked
- Cuisine: french
Scale:
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour + cool overnight
- Total Time: 3 hours
- Yield: 16 servings 1x
- Category: dessert
- Method: baked
- Cuisine: french
Ingredients
for the gingersnap crust
- 1 1/2 cups gingersnap cookies, crushed
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
- pinch of salt
for the caramel pumpkin cheesecake
- 24 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 4 eggs, room temperature
- 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground all spice
- 1/3 teaspoon ground cloves
- 15 ounces pumpkin puree (1 can)
- 1/4 cup nonfat greek yogurt
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 recipe for the best homemade salted caramel sauce
- flaky sea salt (optional)
Instructions
for the gingersnap crust
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Line a 9 x 9 ” pan with parchment paper on all sides.
- In a small bowl, combine gingersnap cookie crumbs, flour, salt, and melted butter. Press evenly into the bottom of the pan and set aside.
for the pumpkin cheesecake
- In a stand mixer fit with the paddle attachment beat the softened cream cheese with the brown sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add in the room temperature eggs, one at a time, beating between each addition.
- Add the cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, all spice, cloves, pumpkin puree, greek yogurt, and vanilla extract. Beat for 1 more minute, until everything is combined and no clumps remain.
- Pour the mixture through a fine sieve into prepared pan. Whack the pan against a hard surface a few times to get out any bubbles.
- Bake for 1 hour or until mostly set. Open the oven door slightly, and allow cheesecake to cool (about 30 minutes) inside the oven before removing and placing on wire rack to cool completely. Once cheesecake is room temperature place in the fridge to set.
- While the cheesecake cools, make the homemade salted caramel, according to directions.* Allow to cool in fridge until thick before using, at least one hour.
- Pour the cooled caramel sauce over the cheesecake bars. Place in the fridge overnight to set completely. Slice into 16 squares and top with sea salt before serving!
Keywords: easy, holiday, pumpkin, spiced, salty sweet, homemade, quick and easy
Notes
*You can always make the caramel sauce in advance and keep in an airtight container in the fridge until read to use!
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Listen to me very closely. I made this recipe for Thanksgiving this year. I’d never made a cheesecake nor caramel before, but my life has kind of fallen apart and I wanted to do something fun and new just to show myself I could do it. So when I was tasked by my incredibly high-standards aunt to bring a dessert, instead of going with a tried-and-true choice, I went with this. Y’all. Sofi. My family went f*cking bananas. Afore-mentioned high-standards Aunt, who is “not a sweets person” (??????), was FORCING people to try it. There is literally no higher praise. Thank you for the confidence boost, thank you for the verified religious experience that is this cheesecake. 10/10.
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This made me whole month! I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed these 🙂
I have a convection oven, and I was wondering if I should lower the temp by 25 F to bake these? Or does that not matter for cheesecakes?
Any tips on converting this to a full cheesecake instead of bars? Definitely whipping this one out for thanksgiving!
Hi Morgan! You can bake this in a 9 inch spring form pan with no alterations! Hope you enjoy it!
Any recommendations for making this for a gluten free friend? Is subbing the flour for almond flour 1:1 okay? I haven’t done any GF baking before.
Hi Hannah! I think that would work 🙂
Okay I am 100% making this for thanksgiving! It doesn’t need a water bath?
No! It works perfectly without!