Looking for a great dessert to wow your family and friends with this Thanksgiving? Well, look no further. Dorie Greenspan's Streuseled Caramel Pumpkin Pie is the one for you. This new twist on a classic Thanksgiving staple will have your dinner guests drooling!

One of the many things I love about Dorie’s recipes is that most of them are pretty forgiving. That is to say, that when I’m not paying attention and screw something up, I can usually fix it and no one but me ever knows. Case in point: this Streuseled Caramel Pumpkin Pie from Baking: From My Home to Yours.

One of the tweaks that Dorie suggests for this pie is the addition of a pecan streusel topping. I thought that sounded like a great idea and whipped some up to use when I tried out this pie the other day. The topping is supposed to be added to the pie after it has baked for ten minutes. Well, I put that streusel in the fridge to keep cold and totally forgot about it – until after my pie had already been baking for over thirty minutes.

Crap! I hate when that happens!

I wasn’t sure if I should put the topping on anyway, or just forget about it. I took a chance and threw it on. So glad I did!

This article appears in Oct 21-27, 2010.