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Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

22.11.13 By Annie N

Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

I promise this is the last pumpkin recipe of the year and I’ll get onto some holiday baking next!

Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

But these were so good, I couldn’t not share them!! I’ve called them pumpkin cheesecake bars, but they are so much more!

Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

A chocolate base, a layer of melty chocolate chips hiding between the layers and then a light and flavourful pumpkin cheesecake layer, just perfect with a hot chocolate!

Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

I’m kinda sad to see the end of Autumn 🙁 yes I adore the holidays, but I love all the Autumn flavours and colours…

… And Starbucks have stopped doing their Pumpkin Spice Latte. Just no, I’m having major withdrawal symptoms.

I’ve tried the Gingerbread Latte and it just isn’t as good. I’m sorry, it just isn’t. The orange Mocha is really nice though… orange and chocolate are just a match made in heaven.

Anyways, I’ve had this week off and I haven’t known what to do with myself! I’m well and truly enjoying it because I know that from next week on Uni is going to get even more crazy busy 🙁

This time last year when we had a week off I had so much work to do, but this year we don’t really. I have a little bit to do, but I’ve managed to actually READ A BOOK this week!!!!! 😀

I know it seems trivial, but you have no idea how much curling up with a good book fills me with joy! I am a total bookworm and I’ve found an awesome series at the moment, every book is fab, which doesn’t happen too often! (It’s the The Ben Hope Series by Scott Mariani, in case you were wondering – I’d highly recommend it!)

Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

I really hope you enjoy this recipe, we certainly did! I hope to be able to blog again soon, we’ll have to see how things go next week! Thank you for your ongoing support everyone! Overwhelmed by it and your lovely comments and emails really make my day! 🙂

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Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

Light and flavourful pumpkin cheesecake with a gorgeously chocolate biscuit base.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

  • For the crust:
  • 2 cups crushed chocolate biscuits, measured AFTER crushing (such as Bourbons, double chocolate digestives or Oreo's)
  • 1 stick (113g) unsalted butter, melted
  • For the cheesecake layer:
  • 6 oz full fat cream cheese
  • 1 egg
  • 3/4 cup Pumpkin Purée, not pie filling
  • 1/2 cup evaporated milk
  • 1/2 cup light brown sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp ground ginger
  • 1/8 tsp ground cloves
  • Pinch ground nutmeg
  • 1 tbsp plain flour
  • 1 cup dark chocolate chips, optional (but they do add an extra layer of chocolate-y goodness!), semi-sweet

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F and grease and line an 8x8 inch square pan.
  2. Pour the melted butter over the crushed biscuits and mix until all the biscuit crumbs are coated with butter.
  3. Tip the biscuit mix into the lined pan and press lightly until smooth and level.
  4. Place in the oven for 10-12 minutes until it looks slightly puffy.
  5. Whilst the crust is baking, make the cheesecake layer: Place the cream cheese, egg, pumpkin purée, light brown sugar, vanilla extract, spices and flour into a large bowl and beat on a med-high speed until everything is smooth and well combined.
  6. If you are using chocolate chips, sprinkle them all over the baked crust, then pour the cheesecake batter on top and smooth until level, if you are not using chocolate chips, just pour the cheesecake layer on top of the crust.
  7. Place in the oven for 25-30 minutes until the middle only has a very slight wobble, it's slightly brown around the edges and it's starting to pull away from the sides of the pan.
  8. Leave to cool completely in the pan.
  9. Once cool, remove from the pan and slice into 9-12 bars.
  10. Bars will keep in an airtight container, in the fridge, for 2-3 days.

Recipe Notes

Cheesecake recipe adapted from Table For Two Blog - http://www.tablefortwoblog.com/2013/11/06/maple-pumpkin-cheesecake-bars/

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Filed Under: Bars, Cheesecakes, Chocolate, Recipes Tagged With: autumn, bar, cheesecake, chocolate, chocolate chips, fall, pumpkin

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Comments

  1. lizwaterson says

    23.11.13 at 2:10 am

    How could the chocolate chips be optional!? 😉 LOL these cheesecake bars look great!

  2. Miz Helen says

    24.11.13 at 12:16 am

    These Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars are just beautiful and would be delicious! Thanks so much for sharing your great recipe with Full Plate Thursday and enjoy your Thanksgiving week!
    Come Back Soon
    Miz Helen

  3. Diane (@SimpleLivingEat) says

    25.11.13 at 1:18 am

    Great idea combining the chocolate biscuits with the cream cheese pumpkin.. Happy Thanksgiving.

  4. Debi and Charly @ Adorned From Above says

    26.11.13 at 7:56 am

    Thanks so much for sharing with Wednesday’s Adorned Link Party. Have a great Thanksgiving.
    Debi and Charly @ Adorned From Above
    http://www.adornedfromabove.com

  5. Kathy @ Melding Magic says

    26.11.13 at 3:46 pm

    Stopping by from Tasty Tuesdays to say Hi! Those Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars look great!

  6. Tina @ Tina's Chic Corner says

    26.11.13 at 7:12 pm

    I can see myself baking with pumpkin even after turkey day! Love it. These bars looks amazing. I love the addition of chocolate. 🙂
    Have a lovely Thanksgiving!

  7. [email protected] Pinch of Joy says

    30.11.13 at 1:27 pm

    Chocolate and pumpkin — sounds soooo good! Glad you found time to read a book — I know that feeling of joy when you finally get a chance to do that!!!

  8. Mom on the Run x2 says

    1.12.13 at 11:45 pm

    I am a co-host on the Anytonita Nibbles Tasty Tuesday blog hop. I am featuring your recipe on my blog Tuesday. Make sure you stop by and grab a “featured” button

  9. April @ Angels Homestead says

    6.12.13 at 2:42 pm

    Thank you so much for sharing your delicious recipe on a recent edition of Saturday Spotlight on Angels Homestead!

    Hope to see you again soon!

    April

  10. Krystal says

    24.11.14 at 3:30 am

    Can you substitute pumpkin pie spice for this recipe? How much?

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