Pecan-Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars Recipe | MyRecipes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
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Recipe by Robert Landolphi
The distinctive flavor of pumpkin pie spice folded into a creamy cheesecake and baked into chewy brown-sugar bars makes for an extra-special autumnal treat. Using a combination of 1/3-less-fat and fat-free cream cheese helps ke
Ingredients
- 4.6 ounces brown rice flour (about 1 cup)
- 2.6 ounces potato starch (about 1/2 cup)
- 2.1 ounces tapioca flour (about 1/2 cup)
- 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 7 tablespoons chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 4 ounces 1/3-less-fat cream cheese (about 1/2 cup), softened
- 4 ounces fat-free cream cheese (about 1/2 cup), softened
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 cup canned unsweetened pumpkin
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 (12-ounce) can evaporated fat-free milk
- 30 pecan halves
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 °.
- Line a 13 x 9-inch metal baking pan with parchment paper, allowing paper to extend over edge of pan.
- Weigh or lightly spoon brown rice flour, potato starch, and tapioca flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Place brown rice flour, potato starch, tapioca flour, 2/3 cup brown sugar, salt, and ginger in a food processor; pulse 2 times or until blended. Add butter; pulse 10 times or until blended. Firmly press flour mixture into bottom of prepared pan. Bake at 350 ° for 10 minutes or just until set and lightly browned.
- Place cream cheeses and 3/4 cup brown sugar in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at high speed until creamy. Add pumpkin; beat until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add maple syrup, pumpkin pie spice, vanilla, salt, and milk; beat until blended (mixture will be thin).
- Pour pumpkin mixture over prepared crust, and bake at 350 ° for 35 to 40 minutes or until center is set. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Cover and chill 2 hours or until ready to serve. Lift bars from pan, using parchment paper sides as handles. Place on a cutting board; cut into 30 bars. Press a pecan half into top of each bar.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Brown Rice.
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