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Baked Pumpkin Cheesecake—Prototype 13:   I decided to bring the crust overhaul of my plain cheesecakes (Prototype 24 there) into this pumpkin prototype. This would also mean omitting the pumpkin butter from the crust, leaving that ingredient to the batter. However, the crust could be spiced up with cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice. I also felt that the top baking installment was somewhat long (with a rather dark surface), while the lower installments (whose exposed sides looked rather light) could use a little more baking time. So I shifted these times around a little (taking 15 minutes from the top installment and reallocating them among the lower ones).   3-Cheese Blend (1CT-1NC-1YG): Prepare ahead of time 16 ounces of yogurt cheese, derived from one 32-ounce container of nonfat yogurt. If the resulting yogurt cheese falls below 16 ounces, add back enough of the whey (that was strained out from the yogurt) to make up the difference. To this yogurt cheese combine 16 ounces of whipped, lowfat cottage cheese and 16 ounces (two 8-ounce packages) of softened Neufchatel cheese ("light cream cheese"). Grease a 9 1/2" (or 9") springform pan, but do not wrap foil around it yet (see below). Crust: 4 oz. melted, white chocolate 8 oz. (1 cup) 3-cheese blend (see above) 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1/4 cup brown sugar 2 teaspoons cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 2 oz. All-Bran, ground up Place the resulting mixture in the greased pan and pre-bake without tub at 300 degrees for 30 minutes, then cool enough to comfortably touch at least the pan's upper sidewall. Batter: 1 cup granulated sugar 40 oz. (5 cups) 3-cheese blend (see above) 14 oz. pumpkin butter 2 teaspoons vanilla 2 1/4 teaspoons xanthan gum 6 eggs Expect close to 8 1/2 cups of the resulting batter, but do not add this to the pan all at once. Rather, this needs to be done in four installments. Wrap the pan in foil (or—as an alternative—use a cheesecake pan bath wrap) just before adding the first batter installment (to minimize the foil's disturbance and therefore its leakage risk, do not put it on any earlier). For each of the first three installments, gently scoop about 2 1/2 cups of batter into the pan, fully covering the surface (here's a tip—scoop small amounts of batter around the edge of the pan, letting this batter flow towards the middle on its own), and then bake this pan with its contents for 30 minutes, at 325 degrees. However, at the end of the third installment's 30 minutes, add on another 30 minutes of baking time, but only at 300 degrees (that's a 60 minute "baking installment"—the first 30 minutes at 325 degrees and the next 30 at 300). For these three installments here, bake with the pan in a tub filled with at least 1/4 to 1/2 inch of boiling water, but (to reduce spillage risks) do not fill the tub all the way at this point, because the whole tub-and-pan assembly is going to need to be removed from the oven (in order to comfortably add contents to the pan) between installments. After these first three installments are done, there should be about 1 cup of batter left, with 120 minutes of baking time reached at this point (30 minutes for each of the first two installments, and 60 for the third one). Now comes the fourth installment—carefully add the last of this batter on top of the pan's earlier installments, fully coating the entire surface. Next, return the entire pan-and-tub assembly to the oven, with the temperature remaining at 300 degrees. At this point, fill up the tub generously with boiling water. Resume baking for another 90 minutes (based upon usage of a 9 1/2" pan). Afterward, shut the oven off, and leave its door slightly ajar, with the cheesecake still inside—and in the tub—for an hour. Next, remove the cheesecake from the oven and tub. Continue to cool it down at room temperature for another two hours. After doing so, remove the cheesecake from pan and refrigerate. Now that looks better! I used cinnamon to spice up the crust when I made this particular prototype for the first time. The second time around I used pumpkin pie spice—a blend of cinnamon, ginger, lemon peel, nutmeg, cloves and cardamom—from Trader Joe's. I made both of these cheesecakes in late November of 2023 (within a week of each other), the first one for a church potluck, the second for Thanksgiving Day with my cousins.