Most bakers, keen to avoid making mistakes with their pumpkin pies, don't stray far from the original pie recipe. But this year, the internet's obsessed with adding some caramel to your pumpkin pie.

Pumpkin spice derives a lot of its character from the spices you use. If your pumpkin pie is turning out bland, try ...

Pour the pumpkin filling into the pie crust, and bake for one hour ... Serve at room temperature with the pecan-caramel sauce and sweet cream. (Recipes below). For the pecan-caramel sauce ...

Add the pumpkin purée, sugar ... and when it reaches 114C remove it from the heat. To decorate the pie, dip a fork into the caramel and carefully drizzle over the pie in a cross-hatch pattern ...

Pour cooled apples into the pie shell. Drizzle some of the salted caramel sauce across the apples. Roll out the other ball of dough. Cut into strips that are 1-by-12-inches long. Arrange half of ...