Now that Halloween is over, I can fully concentrate on what is one of my top two favorite holidays: Thanksgiving. Over the course of these next few November weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, I will work on creating recipes which highlight this festive holiday!
Sneak Peak: ingredients will include pumpkin, apples, and more pumpkin. This week highlights that great Thanksgiving ingredient: pumpkin!
Pumpkin Pie dip is basically like making pumpkin pie without baking it or using crust. I found several recipes for pumpkin pie dip online, but this one was my favorite.
I found the recipe online at http://www.squidoo.com/
I found other recipes using different ingredients (cool whip & pudding packets) instead of cream cheese and powdered sugar. This cool whip recipe is from another website (http://www.the-girl-who-ate-
Pick your favorite & enjoy!
For Pumpkin Pie Dip, all you need is:
-2 (8oz) packages of cream cheese, softened
– 1 cup powdered sugar
– 1 15oz can pumpkin puree
-3 tablespoons pumpkin pie spice
1. Mix the softened cream cheese and powdered sugar until combined (use a electric mixer for this one)
2. Add in pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice and combine well.
3. Cover and chill for 8 hours. Serve with ginger snaps, vanilla wafers or apple slices!
Enjoy!