Pumpkin Pie is a holiday classic. This pumpkin pie is rich and creamy, made with both evaporated milk and heavy cream. Try this recipe and it will be your new favorite. Check out my homemade Perfect Pie Crust.
What you need
Single crust pie dough
Pumpkin puree
Sugar
Evaporated milk
Heavy cream
Eggs
Cinnamon
Ginger
Cloves
Nutmeg
Allspice
Salt
How to make the creamiest Pumpkin Pie
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
Beat pumpkin and sugar together. Use pumpkin puree, not pumpkin pie mix. Add evaporated milk, heavy cream and 2 slightly beaten eggs. Add the cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, allspice and salt. If you don’t have all of the spices, that’s ok. As long as you have cinnamon and one or two others, your pie will taste great. You can also substitute pumpkin pie spice if you’d like.
Put your pie pan lined with a single crust pie dough onto a foil lined baking sheet and place it on the oven tray. Carefully pour in the pumpkin pie mixture.
Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes. Lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees and bake another 45 minutes. The pie should be barely set have a little wobble in the center.
Use a second pie crust to cut out leaf designs. They can be baked separately at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes or until golden brown. Or they can be placed on top of the pie halfway through baking.
Let cool completely and refrigerate until needed.
Pumpkin Pie
Ingredients
- 9 inch single crust pie dough
- Additional pie crust for leaf decoration (optional)
- 15 ounce can pumpkin puree
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup evaporated milk
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions
- Step 1 Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
- Step 2 Beat pumpkin and sugar together. Use pumpkin puree, not pumpkin pie mix.
- Step 3 Add evaporated milk, heavy cream and 2 slightly beaten eggs.
- Step 4 Add the cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, allspice and salt. If you don’t have all of the spices, that’s ok. As long as you have cinnamon and one or two others, your pie will taste great. You can also substitute pumpkin pie spice if you’d like.
- Step 5 Put your pie pan onto a foil lined baking sheet and place it on the oven tray. Carefully pour in the pumpkin pie mixture.
- Step 6 Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes. Lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees and bake another 45 minutes. The pie should be barely set have a little wobble in the center.
- Step 7 Use a second pie crust to cut out leaf designs. They can be baked separately at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes or until golden brown. Or they can be placed on top of the pie half way through baking.
- Step 8 Let cool completely and refrigerate until needed.
