Our Family Food Favorites: Double Layer Pumpkin Pie

Sep 13, 2023

Double Layer Pumpkin Pie

3 cups crushed graham crackers (15 graham crackers)

1 and 1/2 cubes melted butter

1/2 cup sugar

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

1 cup powdered sugar

1 cup cool whip

2 pkgs Instant Vanilla Pudding

1 cup milk

16 oz can pumpkin

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ginger

1/4 teaspoon cloves

Cool Whip

Grease a 9x13" pan. Mix graham crackers, butter and sugar together. Press firmly into pan. Whip cream cheese and powdered sugar together , then stir in Cool Whip. Spread over graham cracker crust. Cool in refrigerator for 20 minutes.

Whip together vanilla pudding, milk, pumpkin, cinnamon, ginger and cloves. Spread over chilled layers. Cool again until ready to serve.

To serve, top with more Cool Whip.

"Saying Grace" by Norman Rockwell

This painting was created for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post’s 1951 Thanksgiving issue. It portrays a woman and a young boy saying grace in a crowded restaurant while the people around them glance in their direction. Rockwell was inspired to create this artwork by a reader of the magazine who saw a Mennonite family praying in a restaurant.

In 1955, the readers of The Saturday Evening Post voted Saying Grace as their favorite ever cover. The painting was sold for $46 million in an auction at Sotheby’s in December 2013. At that time, it set the record for the most expensive American painting ever sold at auction. The $46 million paid for Saying Grace remains the highest known price paid for a Norman Rockwell artwork.