| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 25 min |
| Prep: | 15 min |
| Cook: | 10 min |
| Yield: | 78 petits fours |
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 1 package sugar cookie mix
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder, plus 2 tablespoons for dusting board
- 1/2 cup cake flour, plus 2 tablespoons for dusting board
- 1 cream cheesecake, thawed
- 1 pumpkin pie, baked
- 3/4 cup heavy cream (1/4 cup for cheesecake filling; 1/2 cup for pumpkin filling)
- 1 can pour and frost chocolate icing
- Espresso coffee beans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Place butter and softened cream cheese in a small microwave safe bowl. Melt in microwave on medium setting stirring every 15 seconds until melted. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, add cookie mix, melted butter and cream cheese mixture, egg, vanilla extract, cocoa powder and cake flour. Stir until dough forms. Sift together 2 tablespoons each of cocoa powder and cake flour to use for dusting board and rolling pin. Roll out dough 1/8-inch thick. Using cutters slightly bigger than petits fours molds, stamp out cookies. Fit cookies into molds and cut off excess. Bake in batches for 8 to 10 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes before removing from molds. Cool completely on wire racks.
- To make the filling, scoop out into separate bowls the pie fillings of the thawed cheesecake and baked pumpkin pie. Be careful not to get any of the crusts. Discard the crusts. Add heavy cream and beat each filling with a wire whisk to smooth out consistency.
- To assemble, using pastry bags or zip-top bag with a star tip, hold the bag on its side and spoon in half of the cheesecake filling. Then spoon half of the pumpkin filling on the other side. Test the frosting by squeezing the bag until both fillings come out. Fill 2 more pastry bags or zip-top bags, 1 with the remaining cheesecake filling and the other with the pumpkin filling. Add fillings to petits fours.
- To make the chocolate icing, remove lid and foil seal from chocolate icing. Heat in microwave for 30 seconds and stir. Pour into small zip-top bag. Snip off tiny opening in corner of bag. Drizzle over petits fours. Garnish with an espresso bean.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 78 servings |
| Calories | 84 |
| Total Fat | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Carbohydrates | 10 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Sugar | 4 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Cholesterol | 9 mg |
| Sodium | 45 mg |
Reviews
Love these so great! Always a hit
I don’t understand this recipe. Is it really suggesting that we destroy two already made desserts to make one? Either I am reading it wrong or this is some type of a joke…
As usual with her, not practical. Discard the crusts? Apparently she has more money than she knows what to do with if she can throw perfectly good food away. I made these because I love the idea using a pie filling recipe, a cheesecake filling recipe and nothing was wasted. Shame on her for suggesting we throw away (expensive no less!) food when so many people are going hungry! Her show should be called Semi-Wasteful …
super! my whole family loved it.
Used this one for my annual party-YUM
This recipe really upset me. Not only was it impractical, but gross! Recycled food. If a host served me that food and I knew the prep of it, I would be offended. It isn’t tough to open up a can of sweetened pumpkin mix, sweet condensed milk and a package of cream cheese and make this from “scratch.” That is what I would at least consider being “SEMI-homemade.” Sandra, your decorating and table setting skills are really great and creative! But when it comes to your recycled food (like the apple napolean), it really creeps me out. GAH!
Okay I read all the reviews and for what reason these treats appealed to me. I just have to say as part of my disclaimer that I do watch Semi Home Made and yes I enjoy it. I work FT and have a family and yes sometime I do use the Semi Homemade Tips!
Okay now to the reviw- I loved the look of these and made them for a potluck at work. Big points for the look. They were great bite size traets stacked neatly on a tiered tray- very festive (for work)I bought a good pumpkin pie, and (saved the crust which I never did use, so tossed it). The cookie sugar dough has never been a big favorite of mine, I thought the choc would make it better and it was so so. I am not a sugar cookie person. I think the plain sugar dough might have been better, although work staff loved the choc crust. I would roll it out thin. I had mine too think which leaves less room for filling. I used a small can to make the round shape which was ideal. The cheese cake, would have also been good If I hadnt used ‘ello No Bake Cheese cake- It just didnt taste enough like cheese cake. Everyone liked the combo cheese cake and pumpkin flavor. I did too.
These were good for the small bite size treats, use good pie and cake and then it turns out. I did see something like it already made at Bylerys or upscale grocery. I would prefer a different crust.
Okay now to the reviw- I loved the look of these and made them for a potluck at work. Big points for the look. They were great bite size traets stacked neatly on a tiered tray- very festive (for work)I bought a good pumpkin pie, and (saved the crust which I never did use, so tossed it). The cookie sugar dough has never been a big favorite of mine, I thought the choc would make it better and it was so so. I am not a sugar cookie person. I think the plain sugar dough might have been better, although work staff loved the choc crust. I would roll it out thin. I had mine too think which leaves less room for filling. I used a small can to make the round shape which was ideal. The cheese cake, would have also been good If I hadnt used ‘ello No Bake Cheese cake- It just didnt taste enough like cheese cake. Everyone liked the combo cheese cake and pumpkin flavor. I did too.
These were good for the small bite size treats, use good pie and cake and then it turns out. I did see something like it already made at Bylerys or upscale grocery. I would prefer a different crust.
This was the first time I ever tried to do anything like this… I made the treats for a party we were attending, they were snatched up in the first 15 minutes and everyone wanted to know about them!!!! I can’t wait to make more for Thanksgiving and Christmas!!!
This was a very stylish dessert.
They were fun and relatively easy to make. They were delicious!