Cream Cheese Pumpkin Pie (no bake option!) - The Recipe Rebel (2024)

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Are Costco pumpkin pies good? ›

Safeway's pumpkin pie was my favorite, but Costco's was a close second. As a baker, a homemade pie will always be at the top of my list but I think some of the store-bought versions I tried were still pretty tasty. The textures of both Costco's and Safeway's pumpkin pies were very good.

Why Didn't My Pumpkin Pie Set? You're ready to serve your homemade pumpkin pie, but when you try to cut it, it's too runny to get any clean slices. Why this happens: The pie was underbaked, or the oven temperature wasn't high enough. Taking the pie out of the oven prematurely is a very easy mistake to make.

Refrigeration is the secret to a more flavorsome pie

As your bowl of pumpkin pie filling sits in the fridge overnight, it allows time for the spices to undergo blooming.

Although she doesn't often stray from traditional flavors, her pumpkin pie recipe is actually pretty unique. The classic warm spices — cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg — are there, but what makes Ina's recipe special is the addition of orange zest and dark rum.

The pumpkin pie will keep in the fridge for three to four days. When you have a giant pumpkin pie like I do and not a ton of room in your refrigerator, you may want to look to the freezer instead. Pumpkin pie is easy to freeze and it tastes just as great after it thaws.

During my testing of pumpkin pies, I tried lots of different milk options – heavy whipping cream, regular milk (I used 2% in my testing), sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk. Ultimately, I found heavy whipping cream to be the best. It produced the creamiest pie in my opinion.

Pies with too much evaporated milk formed blisters on top.

Though the interior of the filling had a great, creamy texture. The flavor was ever-so-slightly muted and had a hint of milkiness to it.

As the name suggests, sweetened condensed milk makes the pie sweeter and gives it a denser, creamier texture. Evaporated milk, on the other hand, yields a lighter, airier result. Evaporated milk isn't sweetened either, which is why you can't simply swap one thickener for the other.

Spices: Instead of ground ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and pepper, you can use 1 teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice. Be sure to still add 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon. Pie Crust: No matter if you're using homemade crust or store-bought crust, pre-bake the crust.

Note that if your test determines an undercooked pumpkin pie, return it to the oven and bake a few minutes longer before testing it again.

Should you blind bake pie crust for pumpkin pie? ›

Too many pumpkin pies have soggy crusts that never fully brown. To avoid this, recipes often call for blind baking your crust. That is, baking the empty crust before the filling is added. This gives the crust time to firm up and brown, time it typically doesn't get if the faster cooking filling is added first.

While the canned pumpkin puree is just canned pumpkin, the Libby "Canned Pumpkin Pie Filling" also has sugar syrup, natural flavoring, salt and spices.

Enjoying a holiday favorite whenever you want has never been easier. MRS. SMITH'S^® Original Flaky Crust Pumpkin Pie is the perfect combination of pumpkin, spices and our flakiest crust ever.

Carving pumpkins or Jack-O-Lantern pumpkins are typically thinner, easier to saw into and have less and more stringy guts on the inside; making them easier to clean while pie pumpkins, meant for baking, are usually smaller and more rounded. Pie pumpkins are used for cooking or baking and are also called sugar pumpkins.

The pumpkin filling has a pleasant spice taste, but not very strong, and mainly cinnamon. The flavor is a tad more one-dimensional than other pumpkin pies.

The only thing is, the pumpkin in this pie isn't the same as that pumpkin you might also pick up from Costco to turn into a jack-o'-lantern. If we really want to be accurate here, Costco should probably start labeling its pumpkin pie as "Dickinson squash pie" because that's what it is.

Not only does Costco make a truly good pumpkin pie, but it's gigantic, feeding 10 to 12 instead of the usual eight. It also costs $5.99. You heard me—you can feed a dozen people dessert for six bucks. I think it's nearly impossible to make a pie this size at home for that price, so you're actually saving money.

Every piece of pumpkin that goes into Costco's pies gets cooked not once, but twice. The chunks of pumpkin get cooked once before they're pureed, and then a second time after canning. The pureed pumpkin cooks for a full five and a half hours before it's pie-ready.