Once Upon A Midnight Dreary... Pumpkin - Pie Parfaits

Pumpkin recipes are running a muck on food blogs. Are you sick of them yet? Not me. I still have several others that I plan on making and posting in the near future. In the meantime, enjoy this quick delicious parfait.

PS. Check in tomorrow, I'll be posting photos of Pap and I dressed in our Halloween finest.

Ingredients:
13 gingersnaps, chocolate wafer or graham crackers
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup canned pure pumpkin
2-1/2 teaspoons bourbon
Pinch of nutmeg
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
2 cups cold heavy cream

Directions:
1. Put 7 cookies in a resealable plastic bag and crush into crumbs with heavy pan. Brush the bottoms and about 1 inch up the sides of 6 parfait glasses with butter. Add a spoonful of crumbs to each and roll them around the insides of the glasses; pour out the excess crumbs and reserve for topping. Refrigerate the prepared glasses.

2. Put 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar, the pumpkin, 1-1/2 teaspoons bourbon and the nutmeg in a food processor. Pulse until smooth, about 1 minute.

3. Put the white chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave at 50 % power until melted, about 1 minute, stirring halfway. Add to the pumpkin mixture and process until combined. Transfer to a large bowl.

4. Beat 1-1/2 cups cream in a bowl with a mixer until soft peaks form; fold into the pumpkin mixture until smooth. Divide among the prepared glasses and refrigerate until ready to serve.

5. Beat the remaining 1/2 cup cream with a mixer until foamy. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon bourbon and beat until soft peaks form. Top the parfaits with the whipping cream, reserved cookie crumbs and the remaining 6 cookies.

 The Raven
      by Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-

Only this, and nothing more."