Swirled Pumpkin and Chocolate Cheesecake

Our product was kind of difficult to make, but we found our recipe at Swirled Pumpkin and Chocolate Cheesecake recipe-dessert recipes at womansday.com. The main description is pumpkin and chocolate wafters with swirled chocolate on the top. 

The Cheesecake was kind of too rich I thought. It was still kind of hot so I think if we would of kept it in the freezer longer it maybe would of tasted better. I thought the bottom part of it with like the chocolate wafer part was pretty good. It wasn't what i expected actually because I thought it would be more like a cheesecake but it really wasn't all i could taste was the pumpkin in it. 

I liked the chocolate wafer part of it and the top was pretty good. I did not like the rest of it though it was very rich and too much pumpkin was in it. I disliked the part that it took forever to make. It was a pretty difficult recipe to make because there was so many steps to it. I like that it was cheesecake though because I like cheesecake.

I would probably serve like milk or water with it. I would serve water so that the rich part of it wouldn't  be so rich. I would use water to wash it down because its really rich. I would serve milk because it would also help it not be so rich tasting. 

I think I would maybe not put so much of the pumpkin stuff in it. I think it would taste better if there wasn't as much in it. I also think it would maybe taste better with out the chocolate on the top. I like the chocolate on the bottom but I don't think the top needs the chocolate. I don't really like much pumpkin so I think if we limited the pumpkin a little bit it would maybe be better and if we kept it in the cold for a while longer. We didn't really keep it in there very long.

We found these on BetterHomesandGarden.com. These pumpkin chocolate cheesecake bars are great if you like cheesecake! These would be a great dish to take to a thanksgiving get-together.

The flavor was much better than I expected! I expected it to takes a lot like pumpkin, but realistically, it tasted a lot like just plain cheesecake. All together it was pretty good.

I did not like the frosting. I'm not a huge sour cream fan so that was the worst part. I liked the pumpkin mixed in with the chocolate. It made the taste a lot better. The texture was not bad. It had a fluffiness to it when it was warm which was better than the texture when cold. The chocolate really added flavor to the pumpkin. Without it the bars would have been pretty flavorless.

I think you could just serve this as a desert regularly if you really wanted to. You could serve it with hot cocoa in the winter or just after a big family meal.

Pumpkin Chocolate Cheesecake Bars

 

        My group made Pumpkin Chocolate Cheesecake Bars. I didn't find this recipe so i don't really know where they found it. I think Mark said he found it on some women's day sight. It was made with pumpkin, graham cracker, spices, and chocolate layers with sour cream and sugar frosting!! I personally didn't like the bar with the frosting on it cause if you knew that it had sour cream in it then it just ruins the taste of it. I liked it plain with out the frosting. Without the frosting you could actually taste some pumpkin. I expected it to be more pumpkin flavored tho and the chocolate to have a different taste. I also thought it would be sweeter and more tasteful then it was. The thing that I didn't like about it was the sour cream frosting i wouldn't have minded it if would have been like cream cheese, but no it was sour cream. I also didn't really like the flavor of the chocolate after it was done. I liked how hard the recipe was though. I also like making things with pumpkin in it and it did so I liked it. I also didn't like that we had to eat the other groups bars. I though ours would have been better. I had fun making it though! It had a lot of steps and was harder then most recipes.
         I would serve coffee with the bars. I wouldn't want to serve something cold but most hot things would be gross. I think coffee would be just fine with it. If I were to improve this product I would definitely take out the sour cream and find something else to replace it with, like cream cheese. I would make sure the chocolate doesn't get burnt and some how add some flavoring to the pumpkin. I would definitely add more spies because it was kind of bland in that category.

This is a gingersnap pumpkin parfait. It looks like ice cream cake because we decided to put in a pan so it wouldn't break the glass. The recipe comes from Better & Homes and Gardens.

Pumpkin Pillows

Website where I found the recipe: http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/pumpkin-pillows-127535.aspx


Pumpkin Pillows would be great to serve at Holiday gatherings with family and friends.  This recipe was easy to make as long as you had directions to follow.  The main ingredients in this recipe were: caramel, won ton wrappers, cream cheese, and pumpkin.

I thought the Pumpkin Pillows were really good, after adding the powdered sugar, and the caramel dip.  The caramel dip with the pillows tasted amazing.  I wasn't really sure about the won ton wrappers, but they tasted really good in the end.

I liked that you could taste the pumpkin and the cream cheese at the same time.  I disliked how sticky the won ton wrappers were after they were left in the fridge.  I liked that after having the won ton wrappers in the fridge they stuck together a lot better, which made them easier to cook.  I didn't like that some of the pillows popped when we were cooking them.  I liked how the finished project tasted as good as the recipe said it would.

I would serve Pumpkin Pillows at Thanksgiving and Christmas, when my family likes to have Pumpkin Pie.  I would serve the Pumpkin Pillows instead of the pie.  If you don't like caramel, you could create your own sauce to dip them in.  I think milk would taste great with this dessert.

One change I would make is that once you have the pumpkin, and cream cheese mixture on the won ton wrapper, you brush eggs whites on the edges of the won ton wrapper, then fold them and put them in the fridge.  After being in the fridge overnight, take them out and brush the outside of them with egg whites, there is a smaller chance that they will explode.

Melt-In-Your-Mouth Pumpkin Cookies by Mack Fuller

I made Melt-In-Your-Mouth Pumpkin Cookies. They are kind of muffin-like and are a softer cookie. I found my recipe through Google, which led me to http://www.bhg.com/thanksgiving/recipes/pumpkin-recipes/#page=18. It was a very helpful source with many different recipes.

Our cookies were actually very good. I didn't think they were going to taste the greatest because of the smell of the dough. They ended up tasting a lot like pumpkin which I liked and you also could taste a little bit of the other things like cinnamon and nutmeg, but they didn't over power the pumpkin.

One thing I disliked about the cookie was that it was more like a muffin texture wise. The taste was kind of like a muffin, but it felt more like a cookie when you ate it. I really liked the taste of it though.

A few other things I would serve with these cookies are white milk, coffee or tea. I wouldn't really want to put any other foods with it since it is more of a dessert-snack type of food.

One of the changes I would make would be to make it healthier. We put four sticks of butter in the recipe because that is what it called for. Next time I make these I will cut the recipe down to not make as many and maybe use less butter. They might not taste as good though.

 Pumpkin- Chocolate Cheesecake Bars 

I made pumpkin chocolate cheesecake bars. These Bars are very sweet and creamy. There is just enough pumpkin in them so it won't be over whelming. They reminded me of what pumpkin pie would taste like in bar form.

 I found this recipe at www.bhg.com/recipe/bars/pumpkin-chocolate-cheesecake-bars/.

 The bars were good but very, very sweet because of all the cream cheese and sugar. These bars were very moist and filling. They weren't what I was expecting but they were still very good.  I was expecting it to be more chunky and it wasn't. 

I loved the texture of these bars they were very soft and easy to eat. I didn't really enjoy the icing on the top it was very sweet. I didn't like the fact that the icing tasted so much like sour cream. I really enjoyed the chocolate that was in them. The amount of pumpkin was great as well. It would have been better if the icing was chilled better.

I would serve milk with the bars because milk always goes great with pumpkin. I wouldn't serve any food with this because I would serve it as a snack or desert.

If I could make any changes to the recipe I would. I would change the icing and I would put a little more chocolate into it.