Layered Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie Recipe (2024)

Layered pumpkin cheesecake pie makes Thanksgiving epic. From Oreo crust to toffee meringue on top, this thing is mega.

Another year has flown by and here we are again... it’s holiday season! That’s good and bad for me. I absolutely love holiday baking and the communion around food and fork with the people that mean so much to me. But I almost hate the stress that I inevitably put on myself to do everything required. I go all out. I buy too much and always cook too much, but when it’s all said and done I really wouldn’t change a thing. Thanksgiving leftovers are the best anyway, right?

So, yes... there’s pumpkin here. Are you completely and totally sick of it yet? When I was doing my recipe research for this post, I initially wanted to steer away from pumpkin. I went over tons of recipe options and just decided it’s traditional for a reason. So, yes, we have pumpkin, but it’s a little updated to give some needed interest.

There are a lot of ingredients, but if you know me and my style of cooking at all, you know I am a huge proponent of making a recipe your own in any way you can. In this layered pumpkin cheesecake pie, I snuck in some of my favorite ingredients; toffee chips, salted toffee sauce, coconut, but that doesn’t mean you have to.

In fact, please leave out what you don’t care for (even all of those things if you want) or addyourfaves. For example, I used pecan pieces but maybe you love walnuts? Knock yourself out! Sick to DEATH of salted caramel or toffee? Scrap it or just don’t salt it. Love butterscotch instead of chocolate chips? Use those. You get the picture.

Let me break down what I did. I used chocolate wafer cookies for the crust. I love those cookies. You know, the sandwich variety. Especially as acheesecakecrust. It doesn’t even require baking ahead of time. Always a plus.

I then made up a quick and super simple cheesecake batter and layered it as my first layer. On top of that I put in a little surprise. Mini chocolate chips, shredded, sweetened coconut, toffee chips and some pecans. I’ve been making awarm chocolate cheesecakefor years that uses a similar method. It’s pretty amazing. Take a look to see how it works out and shows up as a little inside surprise. Next I layered on a small amount of pumpkin pie filling. It’s a thin layer but I think the perfect amount.

I’ve read ALL over from very reputable food sources that using canned pumpkin is the way to go rather than fresh. The work involved in preparing fresh pumpkin isn’t worth it and the result isn’t even as good. I use good quality canned pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling, and it consistent every time. It’s also cheap. Just FYI.

After I baked-off the pie I topped it with a salted toffee meringue and torched it (you could brown it on broil if you don’t have a torch) then topped it with all the same favorite little goodies I put inside. Please, by all means, if you want to save time use store bought caramel topping.

If you’re going all out, check out mysalted caramel recipe- it can be made days ahead and used for almost everything and just leave out the cream cheese. It’s also pretty amazing. :)

This sweet little pie gets served warm and it is melt-in-your-mouth perfection! Not too pumpkin-y and the ingredients on the inside are not only a fun little surprise they also provided a great textural quality.

You could make this pie the day before serving. I would prepare the meringue an hour before serving, heat the pie just to warm through then add meringue and brown.

I truly hope you all have a happy and healthyThanksgivingholiday.