Description
Learn to make these pumpkin cheesecake bars – the perfect combination of spiced pumpkin, creamy cream cheese and crunchy dark chocolate topping.
Ingredients
Scale
- 250g of speculoos cookies
- 60g of butter
- 1 can of pumpkin
- 600g of creamcheese
- 120g of granulated sugar
- 100g of Brown sugar
- 5 eggs
- 20g of flour
- 5cl of cream
- 1/2 tsp of nutmeg
- 1 tsp of cinnamon
- 3 cloves (powdered)
- 3 pods of cardamom (powdered)
- 75g of chocolate
- 70g of butter
- 140g of icing sugar
- Pumpkin seeds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C).
- Mix the the speculoos cookies in a mixer.
- Heat butter in a pan on medium heat.
- Add the speculoos and stir when the butter has melted.
- Push the speculoos crumbs into the bottom of the baking dish.
- Put in the oven for 8 minutes.
- Put aside.
- Decrease the temperature of the oven to 300°F (150°C).
- Add the cream cheese in the bowl of your mixer.
- Whisk the creamcheese on medium speed.
- Add the sugar and whisk for 2 minutes.
- Add eggs and whisk for 2 minutes.
- Pour the cream, the pumpkin purée and whisk for 2 minutes.
- Add the spices, flour and whisk for 2 more minutes.
- Pour the mixture on the speculoos crumbs and put in the oven for 1 hour.
- Turn off the oven and leave the cheesecake inside for 2 hours.
- Prepare the hard chocolate topping.
- Put the chocolate chips in a glass heatsafe bowl.
- Prepare a pot of water.
- Place the bowl on top.
- Heat on medium heat.
- Heat the chocolate until it reaches between 113 and 122°F (45 / 50°C) and not more.
- Whisk the chocolate until the temperature decreases to 80°F (27°C).
- Heat the chocolate until it reachs 91°F (33°C).
- Pour the chocolate onto a pastry sheet.
- Spread thinly with a spatula.
- Leave to harden.
- Heat a knife and cut the chocolate into squares. (Chocolate tip : using a heated knife will make it easier to cut the chocolate neatly.)
- Heat an apple corer and use it to cut circles out of the chocolate.
- Prepare the buttercream icing.
- Whisk the butter in a bowl until it softens. Add the icing sugar little by little and beat until smoothe.
- Cut the cheesecake into squares, add a chocolate square on top of each pumpkin cheesecake bar.
- Put a dollop of buttercream on the top of each bar and decorate with a few pumpkin seeds.
- Prep Time: 30 mins
- Cook Time: 3 hours
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
