Pumpkin Cheese Pie

Halloween is coming!! Happy Halloween!! Traditionally, people don’t celebrate in the UK. But now, more and more people do it so that every shop sells lots of pumpkin. Giant pumpkin, monster pumpkin, carving pumpkin… Too many kinds of pumpkins are sold there.

Anyway, my friend and I purchased one. We are not going to do some carving. We plan to do lots of food and desserts. So, the first one we are doing is Pumpkin Mascarpone Pie.

Oven Temperature Setting: 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4

Baking Time: Around 30 minutes

Recipe : A 9” Pumpkin Cheese Pie

Shortcrust Pastry Link

 

 

Steps of Pumpkin Filling
(1) Boil chopped pumpkin around 15 minutes. Then, dry it. Use a masher to mash pumpkin.

(2) Then, add sugar, nutmeg, egg, butter, and milk with pumpkin. Mix all ingredients well.

(3) Pour the pumpkin batter over the top of the pastry. Send it into the pre-heat oven at 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4. Bake around 30 minutes.

 

Steps of Mascarpone Cheese Filling

(1) Separate egg white and egg yolk into different bowls. Whisk egg white. Egg white should be beaten until it is light and stiff enough. Then, set aside.
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: The bowl with egg white needs to be clean and dried totally.  Otherwise, the egg white can’t be whisked to light and stiff.)

(2) Add egg yolks, Mascarpone Cheese ad sugar into a big bowl. Mix them well.

(3) Fold-in egg white into the cheese butter gradually and lightly.

 

Steps of Assembly

(1) Wait the pumpkin fill is cooled around 20 minutes.
(2) Pour the Mascarpone Cheese Filling over the top of pumpkin filling. Leave in the fridge at least 4 hours before servicing it.

 

Pumpkin and Mascarpone Cheese are a very good match. Smooth mascarpone cheese enriches spicy pumpkin flavor. Eating with crust pastry offers you different texture in your mouth. It is definitely the top choice to bake when purchasing pumpkin! Enjoy it!!