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Copycat Olive Garden Pumpkin Cheesecake – Creamy, Spiced, and Fall-Perfect
Why wait for a table when you can bring the flavor home? This Copycat Olive Garden Pumpkin Cheesecake is rich, velvety, and perfectly spiced with a gingersnap crust and a creamy pumpkin filling. It’s everything you love about the restaurant version—made even better in your own kitchen.
- Total Time: 1 hour 18 minutes
Ingredients
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For the Cheesecake
- 3 – 8 oz cream cheese
- 15oz of pumpkin puree, I use Libby’s
- 1 C Light brown sugar, packed
- 3 eggs
- 2 tbsp Vanilla
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp Nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp cloves
- 1/2 tsp Ginger
Sour Cream Layer
- 16 oz Sour Cream
- 1/2 C Sugar
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
For the crust:
- 1 1/2 C graham cracker crumbs
- 1 C Ginger Snap Crumbs
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 C Butter, melted
For Whip Cream
- 2 C Heavy Cream
- 1/4 C Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla
Optional Toppings:
Ginger Snap Cookie Crumbs
Caramel
Instructions
For the crust
- Combined graham crackers and ginger snap cookies in a blender or food processor until fine crumbs.
- Add sugar and cinnamon and mix
- Add melted butter and mix again
- Pour over a spring pan and pack down with your hands or the bottom of a flat cup. Allow the crumbs to go up the sides of the pan and set aside.
For the Filling:
- In a large bowl combine cream cheese and pumpkin, whip until smooth.
- Add sugar and vanilla and mix until combined.
- Add eggs, one at a time mixing in between each addition.
- Add spices and mix until combined.
- Pour over crust and bake at 350F for 30 minutes, then turn oven down to 325F and bake for another 30 minutes.
Spiced Sour Cream Layer:
- After the cheese cake has cooked for an hour, bring it out of the oven and set aside while you prepare the spiced sour cream.
- In a medium bowl combine sour cream, sugar, vanilla and spices and mix until combined and smooth.
- Spread the sour cream layer evenly on top and put back in the oven at 325F for 8 minutes until it sets.
For the Whip Cream Layer
- In a medium bowl combine heavy whip cream, sugar and vanilla with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form.
- Author: Kimmayberry13
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 68 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Cuisine: American



