Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Pumpkin Pie Bites

I made these tonight for a family to say 'thank you' but they almost didn't make it there, 'thank you' very much! They are delicious, the best part about a pumpkin pie is the crust, and there is such a good crust to filling ratio. Magnificent!



Pumpkin Pie Bites
2 refrigerated ready-to roll pie crusts
8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup canned pumpkin
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
Pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter
Optional
1/2 cup chocolate morsels
vegetable oil
re-sealable plastic bags
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Use cookie cutter to cut 12 pumpkin shapes from each pie crust. You will need to roll the dough thinner than it comes out of the box.
Press dough shapes into a 24 cup mini muffin tray. (Make 12 at a time, alternating cups to make sure pie crusts don’t overlap each other.)
Apply egg whites from one egg to the top edges of each pie.
Mix cream cheese, sugar, canned pumpkin, remaining 2 eggs, vanilla and pumpkin pie spice together until thoroughly combined.
Spoon mixture into each pumpkin-shaped pie crust.
Bake for 12-15 minutes.
Remove pies to cool and repeat with second pie crust. Place the muffin tray in the freezer to cool it quickly for re-use.
Makes 24 pies. Keep refrigerated.
To decorate, melt chocolate in a heat-proof bowl in the microwave on medium. Heat in 30 second intervals, stirring in between until melted. Add a little vegetable oil to make the chocolate more fluid. Transfer to a re-sealable plastic bag and cut the corner off. Drizzle or draw faces on pies.
Note: The cutter I used was 3 3/4 inches wide, but if you don’t have one, don’t worry. Just use a round cutter around that size or slightly smaller to cut circle shapes out of the dough. Then make stems with the scraps. Press each stem over the edge and down the side of the dough before filling.


The dough cut out with the pumpkin cookie cutter



shove those little pumpkins into a miny cupcake tin :-)

Recipe from the one and only bakerella

4 comments:

  1. Do I have to bake them in every-other-cupcake slot? I wondered if you just turned the stems so they didn't touch if that would work.

    Yummy!

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  2. It actually does work that way, I was just following Bakerella, but putting them in every slot DOES infact work!

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  3. I am all OVER these . . . they look awesome.

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  4. I was privileged to sample these as well! They are awesome!

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