Miniature Pumpkin Pies with Graham Cracker Crusts

Name: Miniature Pumpkin Pies with Graham Cracker Crusts
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 425 grams can 100% pure pumpkin; 1 teaspoons coarse salt; 170 grams cream cheese, at room temperature; 1 large egg, plus 2 large egg yolks, lightly beaten; 118 milliliters graham cracker crumbs; 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 59 milliliters sugar; 4 Tbsps (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted, plus 1 tablespoon at room temperature; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

One portion of this dish contains roughly 2g of protein, 11g of fat, and a total of 158 calories. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 10. If you have ground cinnamon, coarse salt, cream cheese, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet.

Instructions

Put the pumpkin in a mixing bowl and mash it up with a fork.

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Pumpkin

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Mixing Bowl

Add the cream cheese, melted butter, sugar, egg and egg yolks, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt and blend with a hand mixer until well incorporated.

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Cream Cheese

Egg Yolk

Cinnamon

Vanilla

Butter

Sugar

Salt

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Put the softened butter and graham cracker crumbs in a bowl and mix them together with a fork. Press the crumb mixture into the bottoms of ten foil ramekins.

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Graham Cracker Crumbs

Butter

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Ramekin

Bowl

Aluminum Foil

Put the tins on the refrigerator and chill them for 10 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350° F.

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Oven

Divide the pumpkin filling among the tins. Set the tins in a roasting pan and pour warm water into the roasting pan until it comes halfway up the sides of the tins.

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Pumpkin

Water

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Roasting Pan

Bake until the miniature pies are set (a toothpick inserted into the center of a pie will come out clean), 20 to 25 minutes.

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Toothpicks

Oven

Remove the roasting pan from the oven. Carefully remove the tins from the pan with tongs or pot holder and let cool, then refrigerate the pies until set, about 2 hours or up to overnight.

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Roasting Pan

Pot Holder