3 Ingredient No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake

The no-bake pumpkin cheesecake is a very easy and quick cake to make. The most exciting fact about this cake is you don’t even need an oven to prepare it.

These are the 3 ingredients we are going to use in this mindblowing recipe; cream cheese, pumpkin puree, and chocolate graham crackers. Am going to add in just ½ cup of condensed milk for more sweetness. However, if you do not like condensed milk, you can leave it out and only have cream cheese, pumpkin puree, and graham crackers.

By the way, you can either use homemade pumpkin puree or use canned pumpkin puree instead of homemade. If your going to make the puree yourself the good news is you only need two ingredients to make it. You only need a small pumpkin and sea salt. 

Am going to briefly take you through the steps taken to make pumpkin puree;

First, heat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and line a baking tray with parchment paper.

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Second, wash the pumpkin and pat dry it with a kitchen paper towel. Carefully cut the squash from the stem to the end and pull each apart. Do this in two parts, cut one side from the stem to down to the bottom of the pumpkin. Remove the knife and rotate the pumpkin to the opposite side and do the same. 

 

Scoop out the seeds of the pumpkin and most of the stringy bits and lightly season the inside of the pumpkin with salt and place the cut side down onto the parchment paper.

Bake the pumpkin until it can easily be pierced with a knife in several places and the flesh is pulling away from the pumpkin skin, this will take 45 to 60 minutes.

 

Afterward, remove the pumpkin from the oven and cool until you can handle the halves. Carefully spoon out the soft flesh into a food processor. Pulverize the pumpkin until perfectly smooth for 3 to 5 minutes. Remove the pumpkin puree from the food processor and place it in a clean container and keep it aside.

You can use a cinderella pumpkin, baby bear, or early sweet sugar pumpkin to make a nice pumpkin puree.

 

Furthermore, for storage, place the pumpkin cheesecake in an airtight container and place it in a refrigerator, the cake will last for 4 to 5 days without going bad.

 

Below is the full recipe for the no-bake pumpkin cheesecake;

Ingredients For 3 ingredients no bake pumpkin cheesecake

• 2 ½ cups (blocks)of cream cheese softened
• 2 cups of crushed chocolate graham crackers
• 1 ½  cup of pumpkin puree
• ½ cup sweetened condensed milk, optional

Steps To Follow For The No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake

1. Firstly, make the crust. Pulverize the chocolate graham crackers in a food processor until finely ground into crumbs.
2. Secondly, pour the graham cracker crumbs into a 9-inch spring form pan. 
3. Use the bottom of a clean measuring cup to firmly pack the graham crumbs into the bottom of the spring form pan and gently press up the sides. (You can also use your fingers to pack the crumbs tightly into the sides of the pan).
4.  Freeze the graham crust for 15 to 20 minutes.
5. Nextly, in a large bowl, add cream cheese and beat on medium speed until perfectly smooth and creamy.
6. Add the pumpkin puree and beat on medium-high speed until well combined. Please make sure there are no lumps of cream cheese. If they are still present beat until well combined.
7. Using an electric hand mixer on low speed, carefully fold the sweetened condensed milk into the cream cheese pumpkin mixture and beat until well combined.
8. Remove the crust from the freezer and spread the cheese pumpkin mixture over the crust. With the help of an offset spatula smooth down the top.
9. Nextly, tightly cover the pan with aluminum foil or plastic wrap and then refrigerate it for at least 12 hours. The longer the cake is refrigerated the nicer it will set up.
10. Remove the cake from the refrigerator and use a knife to loosen the cake from the rim of the springform pan. Then gently remove the rim.
11. Slice the cake using a sharp knife. For neater slices, make sure to wipe the knife clean between each slice.
12. Lastly, add desired toppings and serve. Enjoy

Concluding the 3 ingredient no bake pumpkin cheesecake

This marks the end of today’s recipe, we hope you have enjoyed it like we enjoyed making it.

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