Pumpkin Pie Spice

tmillion

Hi all

Need cooking advice...

I am making a Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie for Thanksgiving. It calls for 1/4 tsp of ground ginger, 1/4 tsp of nutmeg and 1/4 tsp of ground cloves

I have some "McCormick's Pumpkin Pie Spice" . I was thinking I could just use 3/4 tsp of that instead of the above. The incredients in the Pumpkin Pie Spice is:

Cinnamon, Ginger, Nutmeg and Allspice

Any good cooks out there know if this would be ok, ie: a good substitue?

Just_Dot

It would be fine!

ambervargo

I think the ground cloves will make an important difference to the flavor to cut through the cream cheese flavor. If you use the pumpkin pie spice, I recommend at least also adding the cloves.

4lafz

I agree -the cloves will be important.

CakeFit21

I think the cloves are important, however, if pumpkin pie spice is what you have on hand and you want to get it done it will totally be delicious.

mlb929

Allspice is a form of pepper, which has a very similar affect to cloves. It often works as an alternative. I wouldn't see any reason to buy cloves.