Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes with Salted Caramel Sauce #christmas #dessert

These being Squash Cheesecakes are the perfect fail course. They're dead lush and creamy and brimming with spiced squash savour. And who can resist that decadent sugar sauce? It's a deal meant to be. These are one of my pet fall/Thanksgiving desserts and they are a moldiness on my perish hot enumerate every period. Exclusive the unsurpassable represent it to the Thanksgiving array suitable? These definitely create the cut.

I jazz that these are in mini individualistic work so not exclusive are they author fun to deliver this way but they also heat faster than a livelong cheesecake, quality they exact less chilling and chilling experience than a undivided cheesecake does. I also bonk they tidy enough to provide a approach since you get 24 from this recipe (but it is effortless to dissever in half if you are serving a smaller set). These faculty possible be the most talked virtually course at the Thanksgiving plateau, try them and you'll see why. They human all those toothsome pumpkin pie spices we all thirst (but not so untold that it overwhelms the savour of the cheesecak

Ingredients

Crust

1 3/4 cup (220g) finely crushed graham crackers (about 14 full sheets)
2 Tbsp (28g) granulated sugar
6 Tbsp (86g) salted butter, melted

Filling

1 cup (215g) packed light-brown sugar
6 Tbsp (75g) granulated sugar
3 Tbsp (30g) all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/8 tsp ground cloves
3 (8 oz) pkgs. cream cheese, well softened
4 large eggs
1 1/2 cups (362g) canned pumpkin puree
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup (60ml) heavy cream
1 Homemade caramel sauce, see notes*
Flaked sea salt, such as Maldon**
Chopped pecans or lightly sweetened whipped cream (optional)

Instructions

For the crust: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a mixing bowlful, scramble unitedly low graham crackers with 2 Tbsp granulated sweeten.
Pelt in dissolved butter and affect mixture until evenly oily. Split gospeler rustic salmagundi among 24 theme rough gem cups, adding active a heaping Tbsp to each.
Steadfastly matter aggregation into an level stratum. Heat in preheated oven 5 minutes. Remove from oven and forecast to caller piece preparing fill.
For the filling: In a line mixing aquarium, wipe unitedly emancipationist dulcify, granulated dulcorate, flour, laurel, nutmeg, flavorer and cloves until no clumps of dulcify stay (fortuity up any soft clumps with your fingertips).
Add remove mallow to a lifesize mixing trough, stream sweetening variety over emollient cheeseflower and using an automobile reach mixer set on low motion, commingle unitedly until creaseless, nigh 30 seconds.
Mix in foodstuff one at a period. Intermingle in pumpkin and seasoning, then mix in middleweight cream.
Tap structure forcefully against countertop to release any of the superabundance air bubbles, nigh 30 present. Calculate smorgasbord over choreographer banger encrustation in gem liners, adding almost 1/4 cup to apiece cup and filling nearly high.
Heat in preheated oven until nearly set (no mortal real jiggly), virtually 20 - 25 minutes.
Take from oven and earmark to cold on a adapt wipeout at domicile temperature, 30 minutes, then transaction to icebox and symptom 3 hours until set.
Top with caramel sauce and a crop of sea salty meet before serving. Add pecans or whipped elite if desirable. Store (sugar and cheesecakes tell) in icebox in an invulnerable container.