Creamy pumpkin spice cheesecake

Description

A delicious cheese cake similar to the ones from the Cheesecake Factory.

Ingredients

1 t
vanilla extract
2 pk
cream cheese (softened, 8 oz packages)
1⁄2 c
sugar
2  
eggs
1 pn
salt
1 t
cinnamon
1⁄2 t
nutmeg
1⁄2 T
ginger
1⁄2 t
cloves
1 cn
pumpkin (divide, 15 oz can)
1 pk
sauce (frozen cranberry-orange sauce, thawed and pureed)
1  
pie crust (Graham cracker prepared pie crust)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350° F.
  2. Beat vanilla, cream cheese, and sugar with electric mixer in large bowl until smooth and well blended (medium speed).
  3. Add one egg at a time, beating well after each addition.
  4. Add salt, spices, and continue beating until well blended.
  5. Spread out approximately 3/4 cup pumpkin mixture evenly into crust.
  6. Pour 1/3 cup cranberry sauce over the pumpkin mixture.
  7. Top with remaining pumpkin mixture and cranberry sauce.
  8. Take a knife and swirl the cranberry sauce into the pumpkin mixture without scraping the crust.
  9. Bake 50 to 60 minutes.
  10. Cool completely on a wire rack.

Notes

Refrigerate 2 hours or more before serving.