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Level medium
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Prep time 30 minutes
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Cook time 20 minutes
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Total time 50 minutes
Course: Dessert
Ingredients
- 1 envelope - unflavored gelatin
- 1/4 cup - cold water
- 2 cups - pumpkin
- 3/4 cup - granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup - milk
- 1/2 teaspoon - salt
- 3 large - egg - separated
- 2 teaspoons - pumpkin pie spice
- 1/4 teaspoon - vanilla
- 1 cup - whipping cream
- 9 inch - baked and cooled pie crust
Directions
- Soften the gelatin in the cold water, in a saucepan
- Add the pumpkin,1/2 cup of sugar, milk, lightly beaten egg yokes, pumpkin pie spice, and the salt
- Heat to boiling, reduce heat cooking for five minutes, stirring
- Remove from the heat and add the vanilla and cool
- Chill until it thickens
- Beat egg whites to peaks, and gradually add two tablespoons of sugar until stiff
- Fold into the pumpkin
- Chill for four hours
- Beat the whipping cream with the remaining sugar until stiff
- Serve pie with whipping cream on top
Use the entire crust recipe for a thicker crust to hold the pumpkin.