Pumpkin Pie Bites

I found these sweet bites at Bakerella. She is amazing and I always love her ideas. I even used her recipe for the pumpkin pie...they were delicious and really not that hard.

Roll your premade crust a little thinner than normal. Use a pumpkin cookie cutter or a round cookie cutter and make the stem out of scratches. Cut them out and place them into mini cupcake pans. You can try to fill them all, but make sure the crusts are not touching. I left a couple of empty spaces in the pan.

This is what they look like before you bake them. Make sure you brush the crust that is showing with egg white.

Looks good, now lets finish them off...

The finished product looks great and tastes great.
I think hubby downed more than a handful of these.

Pumpkin Pie Bites

2 refrigerated ready-to roll pie crusts

8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup canned pumpkin
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
Pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter

Optional (for the choc. drizzle)
1/2 cup chocolate morsels
vegetable oil
re-sealable plastic bags

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Use cookie cutter to cut 12 pumpkin shapes from each pie crust. You will need to roll the dough thinner than it comes out of the box.
Press dough shapes into a 24 cup mini muffin tray. (Make 12 at a time, alternating cups to make sure pie crusts don’t overlap each other.)
Apply egg whites from one egg to the top edges of each pie.
Mix cream cheese, sugar, canned pumpkin, remaining 2 eggs, vanilla and pumpkin pie spice together until thoroughly combined.
Spoon mixture into each pumpkin-shaped pie crust. Brush the crust with egg white.
Bake for 12-15 minutes.
Remove pies to cool and repeat with second pie crust. Place the muffin tray in the freezer to cool it quickly for re-use.

Makes 24 pies. Keep refrigerated.

To decorate, melt chocolate in a heat-proof bowl in the microwave on medium. Heat in 30 second intervals, stirring in between until melted. Add a little vegetable oil to make the chocolate more fluid. Transfer to a re-sealable plastic bag and cut the corner off. Drizzle or draw faces on pies.