Pumpkin Spice Cream Cheese Spread
This 4-ingredient Pumpkin Cream Cheese is a lightly sweetened cream cheese spread made with real pumpkin and plenty of pumpkin pie spice. Use it as a spread for bagels and toast, or swirl it into your favorite brownies, quick breads, and bars!
This Is the Easiest Pumpkin Recipe You’ll Make All Fall!
Have you ever made a pumpkin recipe, only to wind up with like half a can of pumpkin left over? I hate when that happens!
I found myself in that situation recently, and after a lot of head scratching wondering what I could possibly make with that amount of pumpkin puree, I finally landed on it — pumpkin flavored cream cheese.
I see tubs of the stuff in fancy grocery stores like Trader Joe’s, but I try not to buy it because it’s so pricey. After some trial and error, I finally figured out how to make warmly spiced pumpkin cream cheese at home.
Here’s why we love it:
✔ Just 4 Ingredients: Recipes don’t get much easier than this cream cheese flavored with brown sugar, pumpkin puree, and pumpkin pie spice!
✔ Fast and Easy: I always use an electric hand mixer to combine the ingredients, and it takes maybe 5 minutes to prepare the fall cream cheese.
✔ Goes With Everything: You can use this to add a cream cheese swirl to pumpkin bread, brownies, cookie bars, you name it. I’ve also served this pumpkin cream cheese as a dip for apple slices, gingersnaps, and graham crackers.
Enjoy!
-Katie
You’ll Need Just 4 Ingredients
This recipe for pumpkin cream cheese spread doesn’t take a lot of ingredients to prepare! Scroll to the bottom of the post for the full list of ingredients with their measurements.
- Cream Cheese — Set out your cream cheese about an hour in advance to bring it to room temperature (if you cube the cream cheese first, it will soften faster!).
- Pumpkin Puree — You can use homemade pumpkin puree or a quality store brand.
- Pumpkin Pie Spice — If you don’t have pumpkin pie spice on hand, you might have all of the ingredients to make my DIY pumpkin pie spice.
- Brown Sugar — Gives the cream cheese an almost caramel-like flavor.
How to Make Pumpkin Cream Cheese in 2 Steps
- Combine in a mixing bowl. Measure everything directly into the bowl for ease.
- Beat until fluffy. I prefer using an electric hand mixer to do this.
Katie’s Tip: Keep a silicone spatula at the ready so you can scrape down the sides of the bowl periodically.
Storage Instructions
This fall flavored cream cheese can be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 4 days. Note that the pumpkin cream cheese mixture does not freeze well.
Katie’s Tips for Making This Recipe
- Use full fat cream cheese. Anything light or low-fat won’t taste as rich and might even separate once mixed with the pumpkin puree.
- Do NOT soften the cream cheese in the microwave. That will heat it up rather than soften it. (I have some tips on softening butter that you can apply to cream cheese, too.)
- Taste, then adjust the pumpkin spice and brown sugar. You can make your pumpkin cream cheese spread as spiced or sweet as you like!
More Pumpkin Recipes
Be sure to check out these 25 Pumpkin Recipes to Try this Fall so, if like me, you have a pumpkin hoarding problem you now have a very good excuse!
Ways to Use It
There are tons of ways you can play with this tasty recipe. But, if you need a few ideas to get you started, here are a few of the fun ways we like to eat this:
- As a dip for fruit, such as apple slices.
- On your breakfast bagel (a cinnamon or pumpkin bagel would taste amazing slathered in pumpkin cream cheese!).
- As a pumpkin cream cheese filling in cakes and cupcakes.
- Swirled onto brownies or cookie bars just before baking.
- Spread on breakfast breads, toast, or English muffins.
- As a dip for graham crackers or gingersnaps for a fun snack.
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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Recipe
Pumpkin cream cheese is a slightly sweet cream cheese with rich pumpkin flavor and plenty of pumpkin pie spices.
Ingredients
- 1 - 8-ounce package of cream cheese (softened)
- 2/3 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
Instructions
- Soften the cream cheese to room temperature.
- In a medium sized bowl, combine the cream cheese, pumpkin puree, pumpkin pie spice, and brown sugar.
- Beat, using an electric hand mixer, until the ingredients are combined and the cream cheese is fluffy, stopping to scrape down the sides periodically so the ingredients are evenly incorporated.
- Transfer the pumpkin cream cheese to an airtight container and store in the refrigerator.
- Use within 2-4 days. Do not freeze.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 8 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 118Total Fat: 10gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 29mgSodium: 91mgCarbohydrates: 6gFiber: 1gSugar: 4gProtein: 2g
GoodLifeEats.com offers recipe nutritional information as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although GoodLifeEats.com makes every effort to provide accurate information, these figures are only estimates.
Try Flavoring Your Cream Cheese with Pumpkin!
Next time you’re looking for a fun way to use up some canned pumpkin puree, give this pumpkin cream cheese recipe a try!
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