Autumn recipe: Pumpkin cheesecake

Recette d'automne: Cheesecake à la citrouille
The beautiful autumn season is arriving and we're not complaining! Surely one of the most beautiful seasons with its 1001 colours, its gentle and sunny days.
Autumn also brings new fruits and vegetables like squash, pumpkins, chestnuts… and that gives us even more recipe ideas ☺
Today, discover the first recipe in a long series that we'll be offering you throughout this beautiful season: Pumpkin Cheesecake

Ingredients

• 1 packet of shortbread biscuits (or other dry biscuits if you prefer)
• 100g of melted butter
• 230 g of beaten cream cheese
• 500g of pumpkin puree (without added water)
• 4 eggs
• 250 g of sugar
• ½ teaspoon of cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon of powdered ginger

Preparing the cheesecake

Step 1: Biscuit
• Preheat the oven to 350°F
• Mix the biscuits and melted butter
• Press down firmly in the bottom of a springform pan (approximately 22 cm in diameter)
• Place in the oven and cook for 15 minutes
• Remove from the oven and let cool
Step 2: Filling
• Mix the cream cheese and pumpkin puree
• Add the eggs, sugar, cinnamon, and ginger
• Pour into the mold, over the pre-baked base, and bake for approximately 50 minutes at 300°F.
• Remove from the oven and allow to finish cooking at room temperature.

Step 3: Decorate the cake

• 1/2 cup icing sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 tablespoons of milk
Beat all the ingredients together and then spread over your cheesecake!
Place in the refrigerator a few hours before enjoying it ☺