Easy Pumpkin Cream Parfait Recipe dessert for Thanksgiving. Layered with crushed chocolate chip biscuit, pumpkin cream cheese and cream.
Easy Pumpkin Cream Parfait Recipe
Make this Easy Pumpkin Cream Parfait Recipe idea for a Thanksgiving dessert after dinner or lunch. It is a No Bake dessert made of pumpkin puree, with cinnamon and whipped cream and cream cheese with other spices. So easy and quick to put together in a decorative glass with layers of crushed biscuits. Make these a little ahead of time and keep in the fridge until serving. Great family dessert.
Why pumpkin for thanksgiving?
This questioned explains why pumpkin was the staple around thanksgiving. As it was fall and it is a way to give thanks for the bountiful autumn harvest of pumpkin harvest in the 18th century. As per the Pilgrim tradition
Also that pumpkin is high in vitamins minerals and antioxidants and is therefore very healthy.
Thanksgiving Day, annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. In the north.
Normally they would make a trifle for their dessert but a trifle in a glass is called a parfait. If you prefer make this into a trifle in a bowl for larger families.
What is parfait dessert made of?
Parfait can be made up of a few different filling ideas. For this Thanksgiving dessert we used pumpkin puree and cream cheese and whipped cream, layered with crushed biscuits. Others can be made with yogurt and fruits or ice cream and fruits. Get creative and decorate for the theme or season you serving these cold desserts or breakfast for.
Ingredients
- Pumpkin or squash
- cream cheese
- full heavy cream
- granulated fine sugar
- vanilla extract.
- cinnamon
- broken or crushed chocolate chip cookies
(The full ingredients are on the recipe attached view for directions.)
Pumpkin of your choice.
Cream cheese.
Chocolate chip biscuits.
Cooked pumpkin, mashed.
How To.
Firstly we use fresh home cooked pumpkin that is cooked in a little water with salt and sugar. Spice with cinnamon. Then mashed. Put aside for the dessert.
Crush the biscuits finely for the parfait. Cream the cream with fine granulated sugar and vanilla essence. Also cream the cream cheese and add the pumpkin in slowly, (taste if you would prefer it sweeter then add some fine granulated sugar)
Start filling two pretty and servable glasses with the crumbed cookies then some cream cheese pumpkin and then a layer of cream. Do this twice for each glass Equally. Finally topping the cream on top with a little cinnamon and a few biscuit crumbs. (or fine chocolate)
Serve chilled for at least 2 hours…..enjoy.
Recommendations.
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PrintEasy Pumpkin Cream Parfait Recipe
Easy Pumpkin Cream Parfait Recipe dessert for Thanksgiving. Layered with crushed chocolate chip biscuit, pumpkin cream cheese and cream.
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 0 min
- Total Time: 15 min
- Yield: 2 1x
- Category: Desserts, appetizer, snack
- Method: Stove top No Bake
Ingredients
- 1 Cup (8 oz, 240 g)of Homemade cooked pumpkin. (cook pumpkin with a little salt and sugar in a little water, add cinnamon when done and mash) Precook this before the recipe. Time not included.
- 1 cup (240 g, 8 oz) cream cheese
- 1 cup of full heavy cream
- 1/4 cup of granulated fine sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 1 1/2 cups of broken or crushed chocolate chip cookies (or cookies of your choice)
Instructions
- In a medium bowl crush the chocolate chip cookies well. Put aside.
- In a medium bowl whip up the full cream and add the fine sugar the vanilla and mix until light and creamy and forms a peak.
- In another bowl whip up the cream cheese until light and fluffy, And add the pumpkin in slowly and whip up lightly again. Fold in at least 1/3 of whipped cream. (the sugar and spices was already added into the pumpkin when it was cooking)
- In 2 medium glasses add a 1/4 of the crushed biscuit on the bottom of each glass. And layer a 1/4 of the creamed pumpkin mix then a 1/4 of the whipped cream in both glasses. Do this twice until the glasses are filled equally. Topping the final cream with a peak.
- Finally sprinkle some cinnamon with a few biscuit crumbs on top. Keep in the fridge before serving.
- Best for about 2 hours.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2 glasses
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