I love a good Pumpkin Pie. Pumpkin is one of my favourite ingredients of Fall. However all the pumpkin pie recipes I know are unfortunately laden with fat and butter and calories. So I decided to bake a pumpkin pie, minus the graham cracker crust. That way I at least cut down on all the butter that goes in a crust. I took Paula Deen's recipe from the Food Network website as the base and made a couple of minor modifications. Here's a link to her recipe http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/pumpkin-cheesecake-recipe/index.html.
For the filling, I mostly took the same ingredients as the above recipe calls for. However, I only used 1 8 0z package of cream cheese and instead of the rest of cream cheese and the sour cream, I used a cup of natural no-sugar added applesauce. I wasn't quite sure how this would work out, but I have to say it wasn't bad at all! I also substituted half of the sugar with Splenda. Not sure how many calories I chopped off but I am guessing quite a few! The rest of the ingredients were all the same. And I baked the mixture in a 350 F oven on an 8 inch baking sheet for about 45 minutes. It turned out quite yummy in the end and I didn't miss the pie crust at all. Well, maybe I missed it just a little bit...but with fewer calories, this was almost as good.
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| **Pictures are from my kitchen. The recipe is from Food Netwrok's website, Copyright Paula Deen |
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