Spiced Pumpkin Cheesecake

By SamU

Ingredients

• Makes 16 servings
• 38 Nabisco Ginger Snaps, finely crushed
• ¼ cup finely chopped pecans
• ¼ cup butter, melted
• 4 pkg. cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 can (15 oz.) pumpkin
• 1 tbsp. pumpkin pie spice
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup of cool whip
• ½ tsp. ground nutmeg

Preparation

Step 1

Heat oven to 325. Mix crumbs, nuts and butter; press onto bottom and 1 inch up side of 9-inch spring form pan. Beat cream cheese and sugar with mixer until blended. Add pumpkin, spice and vanilla; mix well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing after each just until blended. Pour onto crust. Bake 1 hour 20 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes, or until center is almost set. Loosen cake from rim of pan; cool before removing rim. Refrigerate 4 hours. Serve with cool whip and a dusting of nutmeg.