Pumpkin Pie with Sweet Spices
Pumpkin Pie with Sweet Spices gives a familiar holiday dessert a Southwestern touch. Pumpkin puree, eggs, sugar, and Santa Fe Seasons Sweet Spices create the filling, while pine nuts add a distinctive finishing layer.
This large-batch pumpkin pie recipe fills three prepared 9-inch pie shells and serves 20 to 24 people, making it a convenient dessert for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other holiday gatherings.
Pumpkin Pie Recipe Details
Oven temperature: 350°F
Baking time: 45 to 60 minutes
Yield: 3 pies
Servings: 20 to 24
Course: Dessert
Cooking method: Baking
Ingredients
- 3 prepared 9-inch pie shells, unbaked
- 3 cups pumpkin puree
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 12-ounce can evaporated milk with enough water added to make 4 1/2 cups
- 2 teaspoons Santa Fe Seasons Sweet Spices
- 4 large eggs
- 3/4 cup pine nuts
How to Make Pumpkin Pie with Sweet Spices
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Combine the pumpkin puree, sugar, flour, evaporated milk mixture, and Santa Fe Seasons Sweet Spices. Leave out the eggs and pine nuts.
- Beat the eggs in a separate bowl.
- Fold the beaten eggs into the pumpkin mixture.
- Divide the pumpkin mixture evenly among the three unbaked pie shells.
- Sprinkle the pine nuts over the filled pies.
- Bake for 45 to 60 minutes.
- The pies are finished when the crusts are browned and a knife inserted into the center comes out clean.
Tips for Baking Three Pumpkin Pies
Prepare all three pie shells before mixing the filling so it can be divided among them immediately.
Divide the filling as evenly as possible so the pies bake at approximately the same rate. Begin checking the pies after 45 minutes. Continue baking until the crusts are browned and the filling passes the knife test.
What Do Sweet Spices Add to Pumpkin Pie?
Santa Fe Seasons Sweet Spices is a Southwestern version of a traditional pumpkin spice blend. It is made for pies, flan, baked desserts, snacks, and hot drinks.
Two teaspoons season the full three-pie batch, adding warm spice flavor without changing the original Pumpkin Pie with Sweet Spices recipe.
More New Mexico-Inspired Desserts
For another Southwestern holiday pie, try the Red Chile Cranapple Pie.
For an individually portioned apple dessert, make the Baked Stuffed Apples en Croute.
You can also browse all Taste New Mexico recipes for additional New Mexico-inspired dishes, desserts, appetizers, and drinks.
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