Best Pumpkin Pie
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Creamy, Smooth, Custard-y Pumpkin Pie. Perfectly spiced and with a surprising ingredient that deepens all the flavors and turns this pumpkin pie into a mind-blowing dessert.
Author: Slightly adapted from Mel's Kitchen Cafe and Sally's Baking Addiction
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Thanksgiving
Serves: 8
Ingredients
- 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
- ½ cup granulated white sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- ⅛ tsp ground black pepper (or a couple of grinds from your pepper grinder)
- Pinch of ground cloves
- 2 eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- ⅔ cup heavy cream
- ½ cup milk or evaporated milk
- 1 prepared pie crust
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together the pumpkin puree, granulated sugar, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, black pepper, cloves, and vanilla.
- Next, add the eggs, egg yolks, cream, and milk. Whisk until smooth.
- Pour batter into your prepared crust and bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for 45-55 minutes or until the pie is set.
- Just in case of an overflow, you can place your pie on a baking sheet while baking. Also, if the edges of your crust start getting brown early on in the cooking process, you can cover them with a foil shield or a pie shield if you have one. Do not cover the whole pie with foil. You can cut out a circle that will go around the edges or make one out of foil strips.
Recipe by Real Life Dinner at https://reallifedinner.com/best-pumpkin-pie/