Make Halloween Theme Pumpkin Cheesecake the image of Jack Lamp, which is usually decorated with pumpkins. The base of the cheesecake will be chocolate brownie. From it are cut eyes, nose and sinister smirk. And the cheesecake filling itself is prepared from cream cheese mixed with sour cream, sugar, gelatin and pumpkin puree, which gives the dessert a pleasant orange color and amazing taste. Pour brownie cakes with cheese mass, put Lamp Jack’s face and put the cake to freeze in the refrigerator. It is better to cook a cheesecake the day before, so that it has time to freeze, insist and delighted you with its amazing texture. Share with friends: 
Time: 40 min Difficulty: easy Servings: one 0 – 12 Recipes used volumetric containers: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
Brownie
- 1.5 tbsp. premium flour
- 1/3 Art. cocoa powder
- 0.5 tsp fine salt
- 220 gr butter
- 120 gr. dark chocolate chopped
- 2 tbsp. granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs, slightly beaten
- 300 gr dark chocolate granules
Pumpkin Cheesecake
- 7 gr. no gelatin powder
- 2 packs of 220 gr. cream cheese cream room temperature
- 425 gr. pumpkin puree
- 1.5 tbsp. powdered sugar
- 0.5 tbsp. sour cream
- 1 tbsp. l vanilla extract
- A pinch of fine salt
- 0.5 tbsp. vanilla glaze
- Green gel food coloring
- 30 gr square dark chocolate
- Special equipment: baking dish size 25 x 37 cm. (4.5 l.), detachable mold with a diameter of 22 cm., confectionery bag with a small round nozzle
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Recipe preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 175 ° C. Cover the baking dish measuring 25 x 37 cm. (4.5 l.) foil so that 5 cm. of foil hanging from at least two opposite sides of the form. Sprinkle foil cooking spray.
- Brownie: In a medium-sized bowl, whisk the flour, cocoa powder and salt. In a medium saucepan over medium heat melt, often stirring, butter and chocolate until homogeneous mass. Cool a little, about 10 minutes. Stir in the sugar and then the eggs. Add flour mixture in two passes and mix.
- Pour the dough into the prepared form and bake until a toothpick will not come out of the cake with a few crumbs, 20-25 minutes. Sprinkle brownies evenly with dark chocolate granules. Give stand for 5 minutes so that the chocolate melts slightly. Via Confectionery scapula smear it over the entire surface of the cake. Cool the brownies in the pan completely on the wire rack for about 1 hour. Then put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to completely freeze the chocolate. Pull the ends of the foil to lay the brownies out of the mold.
- Lightly sprinkle a sheet of parchment 40 cm long. Culinary spray and lay on it brownie chocolate side down (this helps prevent chocolate cracking during slicing). On circle half of the brownie with a small knife 22 cm. And cut a circle. Put a circle of brownie chocolate up on bottom of the detachable shape and fix its ring.
- Jack Lamp eyes: of the remaining half of brownie with using a small knife, cut 2 equilateral triangles 6 cm in size. Jack Lamp Nose: cut one 5 cm equilateral triangle. Lamp mouth Jack: cut a crescent moon 12 cm wide. Cut the bottom and upper tooth a short distance from each other (if chocolate Cracks a lot, iron it with a hot pastry shovel, so that it melts again).
- Prepare pumpkin cheesecake: in a small bowl for microwave mix gelatin with 1/4 tbsp. water and leave soak for 5 minutes. In a food processor, mix the creamy cream cheese, pumpkin puree, powdered sugar, sour cream, vanilla and salt until obtaining a homogeneous mass.
- Microwave the gelatin until it melts. stirring if necessary for 30 seconds. Add gelatin to a cream cheese cream mix and mix for about 30 seconds. Pour the curd into a detachable form on top of the brownie.
- Insert brownie eyes, nose, and mouth into the cheesecake so that they the surface is level with the surface of the cheesecake. Put in refrigerator to make the cheesecake completely freeze for at least 4 hours or for the night.
- Pumpkin stalk and mustache: mix in a small bowl glaze with green food coloring so that it becomes color foliage of pumpkin (1-2 drops). Put in a pastry bag with with a small round tip and drop on the top edge of the cheesecake curly mustache. Press the chocolate square to the top of the cheesecake about 0.5 cm from the apex to form a stalk.
