Pumpkin Cheesecake Squares

Ingredients:
2 boxes Jell-o No Bake Pumpkin Style Pie Dessert
4 Tbsp. Sugar
10 Tbsp. Butter, melted
5 cups cold Milk
8 oz. Cream Cheese, softened
1 cup Confectioner's Sugar
16 oz. Cool Whip, separated

Mix the crust mix from the box mixes with the sugar and butter and press in the bottom of a 9 x 13 pan. Beat together the cream cheese and the powdered sugar in a bowl then fold in 8 oz. of the Cool Whip. Spread on top of the crust. In another bowl, mix the pumpkin part of the boxed mixes with the milk as directed on the box. Pour on top of the cream cheese layer. After it sets for a bit, spread the rest of the cool whip on top. One of my all time favorite creations!!

Cheesy Pumpkin Squares

2 Jell-O No-Bake Pumpkin Style Pie Desserts (in a box type mix)
10 Tbsp. Butter
4 Tbsp. Sugar
5 cups Cold Milk
8 oz. Cream Cheese
1 cup. Powdered Sugar
8 oz. Cool Whip

Mix the crust mixes from both boxes of the No-Bake Pumpkin Style Pie Desserts with the butter and sugar. Press the prepared crust into the bottom of a 9 x 13 pan.

Next, mix the cream cheese and powdered sugar together and fold in the Cool Whip. Put this mixture on top of the pressed crust.

Mix the Pumpkin mix from both desserts with the milk following the instructions on the back of the box. Pour this on top of the cream cheese layer. Cover it and refrigerate at least an hour (the longer you chill it, the better it sets).

If you want to make this into a round pie, or make a smaller square baker size, cut the cream cheese layer ingredients in half and use just one box of the Jell-O dessert mix.

This is NOT the recipe on the back of the Jell-O box. It is a bit more rich in the flavor of the cream cheese layer. I came up with it by combining the pumpkin idea with part of another layered dessert recipe I have and loved the results. I hope you love it too!

Jack o' Lantern Cake

Jack-O-Lantern Cake

OK, after trying MANY recipes, my favorite is the easiest, healthiest, and also least original. It is actually stolen from Anne Allen, so you can thank her. (It also makes fabulous muffins with half the recipe, baking for only 15-20 min.)

CAKE

2 spice cake mixes

4 eggs

1 large can pumpkin (30 oz)

Preheat oven to 350. Blend all ingredients and separate batter equally into two greased and floured bundt pans. (You can cook one at a time if you only have one bundt pan--I do this). Bake at 350 for 45 minutes, or until inserted knife comes out clean. Allow to cool

FROSTING

2 8 oz packages cream cheese or low fat cream cheese (softened)

2 tsp. vanilla

9-10 cups powdered sugar

Orange, green and black food coloring

Pastry bags and decorating tips for frosting

Mix cream cheese and vanilla first, then slowly add in powdered sugar until frosting doesn't fall out of shape (you need it thick enough to frost with). Color 1/4 cup frosting green, 1/4 cup frosting black, and the color the remainder orange.

Cut off tops of both cakes so that flat surfaces can fit together nicely to make the pumpkin. Put them together, frost orange, and then have fun "carving" your jack-o-lantern. (black face features, green leaves and runners).