Tasty Kitchen Post: Perfect Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe

If you have been searching for the perfect dessert to grace your Thanksgiving table, search no longer. This is my first attempt at baking a full cheesecake and, besides a few cracks in the top, this pumpkin version turned out beautifully. So beautifully, in fact, that the entire thing was devoured within two days. This recipe is from one of the Tasty Kitchen members (The Pioneer Woman's community recipe site) and it certainly lives up to its name.

Head over to the Tasty Kitchen blog to read more about my adventures with cheesecake and to see step-by-step photos for this Perfect Pumpkin Cheesecake recipe. If you are looking for more Thanksgiving recipe ideas, check out my Thanksgiving feast line-up.

Oh, and be sure not to miss Ree's (The Pioneer Woman) Thanksgiving feast throwdown against Bobby Flay, which is set to air on the Food Network on Wednesday, November 17, 9 pm (8 pm Central). If Ree's cooking and spunky personality are any indication of how that throwdown is going to go, then I think Mr. Flay will have his work cut out for him.

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Ingredients:

1 cup Italian-seasoned breadcrumbs
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2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
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