This recipe was a successfully failed cookie cutter experiment.  The failure was that I was hoping to cut the cheesecake with cookie cutters, but that didn't work out so well.  Everything kept getting stuck and I couldn't get the cheesecake out of the cutters.  After trying to cut out the cheesecake with the cookie cutters, I also realized it was a bad idea.  Cheesecake is not cheap to make and you lose way too much cheesecake by trying to cut them out.  Because of cost, I will not be trying to make cookie cutters work with cheesecake.

The success is that the pumpkin cheesecake recipe I made up was delicious!!! I covered them in white chocolate and chocolate, but, after doing that, I think I would have preferred just the cheesecake without the chocolate because it was so good. This is a great pumpkin cheesecake recipe and could easily replace any pumpkin pie recipes you might use for the holidays.  I highly recommend it.