Pumpkin Cream Cheese Pie

We have been making this recipe for Thanksgiving for years.  If you are not a huge pumpkin pie fan you have still got to try this.  It is unlike anything you have ever had and will be one of your Thanksgiving food traditions.  

4 oz. cream cheese, softened

1 c. plus 1 Tbsp. milk

1 Tbsp. sugar

1 8 oz. cool whip

1 prepared graham cracker crust

1 16oz. can pumpkin

2 4oz. pkgs instant vanilla pudding

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp. ground ginger

1/4 tsp. ground clove

Mix cream cheese, 1 Tbsp. of milk, and sugar until smooth.  Gently stir in 1 1/2 c. of cool whip.  Spread on bottom of crust.  Stir pumpkin, pudding mix, and spices into remaining milk.  Beat until blended.  Spread over cream cheese mixture.  Refrigerate 4 hours before serving.