A creamy keto pumpkin pie filling with a tender almond flour crust. If you want a light and airy Thanksgiving dessert, then this Pumpkin Cream Pie is for you. With only 7g total carbs per serving, you can afford to indulge this holiday season.
Who wants pie?
The dreaded words that anyone on a low carb diet hates to hear at the end of their Thanksgiving meal. Because that pie…oh my! It has a lot, and I mean a LOT, of carbs. Pumpkin or pecan, it doesn’t matter. With all that pie crust and all that sugar, it’s bound to be carbalicious.
Except that it really doesn’t have to be and this low carb pumpkin cream pie proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
This pumpkin pie recipe is a keto dieter’s dream and I promise you that it will be the highlight of your holiday meal. You will be looking forward to dessert all dinner long!
Adventures in making Pumpkin Cream Pie
A shout out to the reader who suggested I try my hand at this. I believe it was over Instagram, and she said I was the queen of keto cream pie recipes. How could I resist such flattery?
I thought I knew what I was doing. I thought I would make it exactly the same way I made keto Strawberry Cream Pie and the Mocha Cream Pie from Easy Keto Desserts. Oh boy, was I wrong.
For some reason, when I added my pumpkin mixture to my whipped cream, the filling completely curdled. It tasted great, but it was remarkably ugly. All little bits of orange pumpkin puree mottled by little bits of white whipped cream. It wasn’t uniform at all and nothing I did made it come back together. And I knew it wouldn’t set properly either, since they wouldn’t mix together.
Don’t make the same mistake I did! I tossed that filling and started over.
Many pumpkin cream pie recipes rely heavily on cream cheese for the filling, but that’s more of a pumpkin cheesecake and that wasn’t what I was after here. But I knew it would help give the filling some structure so I used only half of a brick of cream cheese. And then I also used some gelatin dissolved in hot water to give it a lighter, more airy quality.
I also used the new Swerve Brown sweetener for a true pumpkin pie flavor, with that hint of caramel or molasses. You could use all powdered Swerve here, if you prefer. The second filling turned out just as I wanted it, a light pumpkin mousse rather than a dense cheesecake, but so rich and satisfying at the same time.
For the crust, I highly recommend using my Almond Flour Pie Crust. It’s so easy because it’s simply a press in pie crust, but it ends up being tender and flaky, and it holds up to any filling you want to put into it. You could make it no-bake, but in this particular application, I highly recommend baking it. It has more crispness that way, which contrasts deliciously with the creamy no-bake pumpkin filling.
But you know, if you wanted to skip the crust altogether and eat this as a delicious pumpkin mousse, I wouldn’t stop you.
Sugar Free Pumpkin Pie Recipe
It’s so wonderful to have sugar free options to some of our favorite traditional desserts. This pumpkin cream pie isn’t like your traditional custard pie. It’s not nearly as dense or heavy, but it’s still full of amazing pumpkin pie flavor.
And only the crust is baked, so it’s really easy to make. Be sure to use the gelatin to make sure it sets properly, but you shouldn’t have any worries that it won’t turn out well. Sometimes regular pumpkin pie doesn’t set or makes the crust soggy but it won’t happen with this pumpkin cream filling.
Here’s to a happy and healthy keto Thanksgiving! Who wants pie?
Keto Pumpkin Cream Pie
Ingredients
- 1 recipe Almond Flour Press In Pie Crust
- ¾ cup pumpkin puree
- 4 ounces cream cheese softened
- ⅓ cup Swerve Brown
- 1 ½ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 2 tablespoon water
- 1 ½ teaspoon grassfed gelatin
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- ⅓ cup powdered Swerve Sweetener
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Make the pie crust according to the directions and bake at 325F for about 20 minutes. Remove and let cool.
- In a large bowl, beat together the pumpkin puree, cream cheese, brown sugar substitute, and pumpkin pie spice until smooth.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the water and gelatin. Microwave on high for 30 seconds and then whisk again to dissolve the gelatin. Beat into the pumpkin mixture.
- In another large bowl, beat the whipping cream with the powdered sweetener and vanilla extract until it holds stiff peaks.
- Fold the two mixtures together until no streaks remain. Spread in the prepared pie crust and refrigerate at least 2 hours until set.
Norma S says
I have made this many times, always a success! I am wondering if this would freeze well if I want to make it ahead?
Stacey Maggio says
can this be made in small portions like a muffin tin and frozen?
Carolyn says
Sounds like you should experiment! 🙂
Kim Bridges says
Love this pie!
Jennifer Alvey says
This is amazing! I did not make a pie, but rather used the fluffy pie filling as a dip using spice cookies. This is now my favorite Thanksgiving sweet treat. Thank you for continuing to produce fabulous keto friendly recipes.
Amber says
I love this recipe!!!! I made it last year for Thanksgiving and it was a big hit! I’m planning to make it again this year. I do have a question, have you tried making this with store bought whipped topping? I have some healthy versions that I buy and I’m thinking of trying it this way to see how it turns out.
Carolyn says
I do not use store-bought whipped topping.
AG says
I doubled the filling recipe and made it in a 9×13 pan with a “graham cracker” crust made out of keto friendly cinnamon cereal – I was feeding a keto crowd. It was amazing! There wasn’t a crumb left. Make and take this one to any holiday gathering with confidence!
Tina Hoskins says
Very yummy and easy! I used Knox gelatin and will probably back off on the filling sweetener a little next time. Highly recommend for everyone, even non-keto.
Kris says
so I made this one for Thanksgiving and I went to have a second piece on Saturday and it was all crunchy, the sugar had crystalized. It was not like that the first day, it was fantastic! and I’ve made several of your cream cheese recipes bef5and that’s not happened. On my FB comment you said that happens when the sugar gets to hot but it is an No Bake recipe so no chance of that. What else could have happened? I used Swerve Brown like the recipe said.
Kris says
also I did not click on 1 Star for a rating it just showed up there and I can’t seem to change it sorry about that. ????
Carolyn says
Good to know… I removed the rating from your comment altogether for you. Sorry, I have so many questions on Facebook, it’s hard to keep straight what recipe people are asking about. Not quite sure why it went so crunchy on you. Mine hasn’t done that. But maybe next time, replace a little of the Swerve with BochaSweet or allulose, which should help inhibit the re-crystallization.
Kris says
Thanks for the idea, I’ll try that next time. ????
Cathy says
This is in the fridge chilling right now. I can’t wait to really taste it, as I have already licked the spoon. So I know it is good! In my little corner of the world, I could not find pumpkin puree, only pumpkin pie filling. So I bought a smallish wedge of local pumpkin and roasted it, then put it in the food processor. All of your recipes I’ve tried with it have come out really good. I have enough left to probably make another pie, or look for another recipe to use it up:-)