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HAZLENUT, WHITE CHOCOLATE, PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE:

Ingredients:
CRUST
3/4 cup vanilla-wafer crumbs
1/2 cup ground hazelnuts
3 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons butter, melted
CHEESECAKE FILLING
3 8-ounce packages cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon pumpkin-pie spice
1 cup canned pumpkin
4 eggs
1 cup coarsely chopped white chocolate
1/4 cup chopped hazelnuts (toasted, if you like)

INSTRUCTIONS:
Heat the oven to 325 degrees. In a small bowl, combine the crust ingredients and mix well. Press the mixture into the bottom and a half inch up the sides of a 9-inch springform pan. Bake the crust for 10 minutes, then remove it from the oven and set aside. Reduce the oven temperature to 300 degrees.
In a large bowl, blend the cream cheese, sugar, flour, and pumpkin-pie spice with an electric mixer on low speed (at low speed, less air will get into the batter and the cheesecake will be less likely to crack while baking). Add the pumpkin and eggs and beat until well combined. Stir in the white chocolate. Pour the filling into the crust-lined pan, then sprinkle on the chopped hazelnuts.
Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour. Then turn off the heat and leave the cheesecake in the oven with the door closed for another 30 minutes or longer until set. Remove the cheesecake from the oven and chill. Makes one 9-inch cheesecake. Boy, it's GOOOOOD!!

PUMPKIN RAISIN WALNUT BREAD:

Ingredients:
2 cups brown sugar
2 cups pumpkin puree
2 eggs
1 cup oil
1 cup apple cider
4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 cup raisins
1 cup walnuts
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Combine brown sugar, pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, and cider. Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and mix until moistened. Add raisins and walnuts and mix thoroughly. Divide the batter into 2 portions and pour into 2 greased loaf pans. Place in oven and bake for 50 minutes. Cool in pans on a rack until room temperature. Remove from pans and serve.

I have not tried this recipe so I can't vouch for it. It sounds good and the ingredients go together well. If you try it please let us know how it turned out.

WHITE SPOOKIES:

Making Halloween food doesn't have to be scary! Here is a simple spooktacular idea for handout treats or school parties.

With just three ingredients, these cookies are easy to make and delicious.
INGREDIENTS:
1 package Nabisco Nutter Butter cookies
1 package white chocolate chips or Baker’s white chocolate (6 ounces)
½ cup semisweet chocolate chips for decorating

Melt white chocolate in microwave for one minute or until melted, on high (in microwave safe bowl). Stir and spread melted white chocolate one side of each cookie and lay on cookie sheet or tray. Decorate with chocolate chip “eyes.” You can get more elaborate and dress up your ghosts with decorator’s icing, but chocolate chips make for quick and easy faces.