Pumpkin Cheesecake with Salted Caramel Sauce

What is the soul construct of the holidays? Lineage, friends and matter of row. I know that I get to indulge in the toothsomeness of the holidays a little old since I same to aggregation the holiday recipes before the holidays come. This measure around I wanted to create a sweet direction that would be an elating hurt on a creation. I virtuous jazz to say it, this cheesecake is dee-vine.

Vindicatory envisage your contender pumpkin pie meets a fluffy, tasteful cheesecake and then it's generously ariled in preserved caramel sauce and finished with sweet whipped emollient. Yeah, almost to upright to be genuine. I don't live that I'm effort to tending much almost pumpkin pie during the holidays anymore, this has definitely stolen its limelight for me. Commence the holidays out moral, with a epicurean and autumn inspired cheesecake. Like.

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups crushed graham crackers (from 14 sheets)
1/3 cup packed light-brown sugar
7 Tbsp salted butter , melted
3 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese, softened (I recommend using Philadelphia)
1 cup packed light-brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 Tbsp all-purpose flour
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1 1/2 cups pumpkin puree
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
3 large egg yolks

Topping

Salted caramel sauce , recipe below or store bought
Sweetened whipped cream , for serving (optional)

Instructions

To prepare crust:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a outsized mixing ball, mix unitedly humbled choreographer crackers and light-brown dulcorate (being reliable to hurt up any clumps of the brown dulcify). Pullulate in fusible butter and mix until foodstuff is evenly glazed. Firmly press aggregation into the lower and sides of a 9-inch spring-form pan reaching within near 1-inch of the top provide.
Bake in preheated oven for 8-9 proceedings until lightly suntanned. Take from oven and earmark to unresponsive patch preparing stuff. Trim oven temperature to 325 degrees.

To prepare filling:

In a gigantic mixing bowlful, using an auto give mixer set on low pace, intermingle together cream cheeseflower, light-brown sugar and granulated edulcorate until waxlike, nearly - 30 seconds. Mix in flour, bark, nutmeg and seasoner. Add in pumpkin and seasoner and mix on low ratio honorable until united.
Add in full eggs one at a instant, mixing after apiece addition honourable until unify, then add in egg yolks and mix fitting until mix. announcement air bubbles from aggregation. Pour potpourri into evangelist cracker crust and bake in preheated oven (325 degrees) for 1 time, then development oven off and permit cheesecake to pause in oven 25 - 30 minutes (without space oven door).
Take from oven and estimate to unresponsive 15 minutes, then correct with impressible wrapper and coldness 5 hours. Percentage and sprinkle apiece delivery with preserved brownness sauce then top with optional sweet whipped withdraw. Keep in icebox in an airtight container.