Pumpkin pie may be tradition, but this pumpkin dessert ROCKS!!! Trust me!!!

RRP

THANKSGIVING PUMPKIN DESSERT - that Beats a pumpkin pie hands down!

(Thanks to our dear neighbor Jan McCarty)

I've been making this WINNER for several years now!  

CRUST:

1 cup flour

1 stick butter

½ cup chopped pecans

 

2ND LAYER:

1 8oz pkg softened Philly cream cheese

1 cup powdered sugar

 

3rd LAYER

1.5 cup pumpkin pie filling

2 tea ground cinnamon

2 boxes Vanilla Instant Pudding

1.5 cup milk (if 1% then use 1.25 of 1% plus .25 of H&H)

 

4th LAYER

Cool Whip – about 4 oz needed

 

CRUST: Soften butter in M/W for 15 sec @ 70% and mix with flour and pecans. Pat mixture into 1 9x13 pan or 2 9x6 or 2 8 x 8 disposable pans. Bake at 325 for 5 to 10 minutes. Let cool

 

2nd LAYER: Soften cream cheese in M/W for 15 sec @ 70%. Mix ingredients together well and spread evenly over the cooled crust. Refrigerate for 1 hour.

 

3rd LAYER: Mix ingredients together well and spread over 2nd layer.

 

4th LAYER: Cover entire dessert with Cool Whip

  

Note: This is far more time consuming to prepare than it may appear so best to make it on Wednesday. Once chilled it keeps quite well.

 

lkapigian

Ahem....Pics , sounds awesome @RRP

Woodchunk

Printing it out

JohnInCarolina

Sounds like a double-layer pumpkin pie.

ColtsFan

Thanks Ron. I'll give this a try next week 

RRP

JohnInCarolina said

Sounds like a double-layer pumpkin pie.

Not even close John! 

bgebrent

RRP said:

JohnInCarolina said

Sounds like a double-layer pumpkin pie.

Not even close John! 

Do you have a recipe for John's?

Eggcelsior

I find the flavor of cool whip abhorrent. It does sound like a 2-layer pumpkin pie/cheesecake, minus eggs. I wonder if whipped cream would hold up. It likely would with enough powdered sugar as a stabilizer, I suppose.

bgebrent

Eggcelsior said:

I find the flavor of cool whip abhorrent. It does sound like a 2-layer pumpkin pie/cheesecake, minus eggs. I wonder if whipped cream would hold up. It likely would with enough powdered sugar as a stabilizer, I suppose.

Perseveration?

Eggcelsior

bgebrent said:

Eggcelsior said:

I find the flavor of cool whip abhorrent. It does sound like a 2-layer pumpkin pie/cheesecake, minus eggs. I wonder if whipped cream would hold up. It likely would with enough powdered sugar as a stabilizer, I suppose.

Perseveration?

Brain injury pumpkin pie?

bgebrent

Eggcelsior said:

bgebrent said:

Eggcelsior said:

I find the flavor of cool whip abhorrent. It does sound like a 2-layer pumpkin pie/cheesecake, minus eggs. I wonder if whipped cream would hold up. It likely would with enough powdered sugar as a stabilizer, I suppose.

Perseveration?

Brain injury pumpkin pie?

Hate it when it escapes the ears.

pgprescott

Sounds like pumpkin lush. My favorite is coconut lush. There is lemon lush and chocolate lush as well. It’s all delicious! 

JohnInCarolina

RRP said:

JohnInCarolina said

Sounds like a double-layer pumpkin pie.

Not even close John! 

Here’s the recipe:

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/double-layer-pumpkin-pie-54636.aspx

SamIAm2

@RRP - If you really want to go decadent with this desert, get ahold of Lane's Pitmaster's Select Rub #5. The desert he made at class last evening was a sweet potato pie and he mixed this rub in the Cool Whip. Picked up a bottle after class and am going to add some rub to the Cool Whip going on top of Pumpkin Cheese Cake on Thursday. Food coma coming up!

bluebird66

Thanks @RRP

Photo Egg

RRP said:

JohnInCarolina said

Sounds like a double-layer pumpkin pie.

Not even close John! 

Lol

nolaegghead

John's is a TWO layer and Ron's is a FOUR layer.  No resemblance at all.  That's a two layer difference John.

RRP

Let alone the vastly different crust, lack of ginger and cloves, but then a BMW is the same as a Prius in some people's world!

JohnInCarolina

RRP said:

Let alone the vastly different crust, lack of ginger and cloves, but then a BMW is the same as a Prius in some people's world!

I’m sure that your neighbor’s refinements to this basic recipe have improved it significantly, just like a Prius drives like a Corvette if you put a different set of tires on it.

Legume

I think the only way to settle this is head to head throwdown.  Ron makes his and John makes his, both post pics and then we'll be able to settle this scientifically.

pgprescott

You guys just can’t help yourselves. Let the bullying continue. Carry on. 

Eggcelsior

RRP said:

Let alone the vastly different crust, lack of ginger and cloves, but then a BMW is the same as a Prius in some people's world!

Ah, so you mean a plug-in Prius vs the i3?

fishlessman

whos up for hitting JOHN with a pie

nolaegghead

JohnInCarolina said:

RRP said:

Let alone the vastly different crust, lack of ginger and cloves, but then a BMW is the same as a Prius in some people's world!

I’m sure that your neighbor’s refinements to this basic recipe have improved it significantly, just like a Prius drives like a Corvette if you put a different set of tires on it.

Are you saying they put crappy tires on the Prius? 

JohnInCarolina

fishlessman said:

whos up for hitting JOHN with a pie

Lol!  Happy to take it any time it’s deserved, or even when it’s not. 

nolaegghead

JohnInCarolina said:

fishlessman said:

whos up for hitting JOHN with a pie

Lol!  Happy to take it any time it’s deserved, or even when it’s not. 

If there is ever a time when it's not, I will be worried about you John.

RRP

Just a shameless bump!

GrillSgt

The wife’s making a pumpkin cheesecake in a ginger snap crust with a warm caramel sauce. My favorite is is Ooey Gooey Pumpkin Butter Cake. Paula Dean if interested. 

JohnInCarolina

LMAO I'd totally forgotten about this thread.  I think maybe Ron had too...

SGH

RRP said:

Just a shameless bump!

No shame in bumping a great recipe ole buddy. In fact, I’m glad that you did. I missed this when you originally posted it. I was offshore off the Yucatán Peninsula and missed it. Thanks for sharing it.  

ColtsFan

JohnInCarolina said:

LMAO I'd totally forgotten about this thread.  I think maybe Ron had too...

Just don't confuse this with a double-layer pumpkin pie!