This is my favorite recipe to welcome in Fall.
If nothing else, just so I can bribe my hubby to do odd jobs for them. : )
But they are my favorite as well, so everyone wins. A friend brought them to a potluck at our house once, years ago, and we loved them. I’ve been making them ever since and we still love them!
PUMPKIN BARS
4 eggs
1 2/3 cups sugar
1 cup oil
1 (15 oz) can pumpkin puree (just plain pumpkin, not pie filling)
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp salt
1 cup mini chocolate chips, optional
Frosting:
3 oz cream cheese
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups confectioners sugar
1 T milk
Mix the eggs, sugar, oil, and pumpkin together in a large bowl until light and fluffy. (I use a whisk or hand mixer).
Mix together in another bowl the flour, baking powder and soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
Stir in with the pumpkin mixture with a spatula, mixing until well combined.
Add chocolate chips if using.
Spread into a 10 x 15 inch jelly roll pan or a 9 x 13 pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes for a 10 x 15 pan, or 35-40 minutes for a 9 x 13 pan, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Cool before frosting.
Make frosting:
Mix together the cream cheese and butter, add vanilla.
Add the sugar 1/2 cup at a time, mixing until smooth.
Add milk if needed to reach desired consistency.
Frost bars, cut in bars or squares.
Recipe adapted slightly from All Recipes
Pumpkin Bars
October 5, 2011
Category
Brownies / Bars
Pumpkin
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time
30 minutes
Total Time
40 minutes
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 1 2/3 cups sugar
- 1 cup oil
- 1 (15 oz) can pumpkin puree (just plain pumpkin, not pie filling)
- 2 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips, optional
Frosting:
- 3 oz cream cheese
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups confectioners sugar
- 1 T milk
Instructions
- Mix the eggs, sugar, oil, and pumpkin together in a large bowl until light and fluffy. (I use a whisk or hand mixer).
- Mix together in another bowl the flour, baking powder and soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
- Stir in with the pumpkin mixture with a spatula, mixing until well combined.
- Add chocolate chips if using.
- Spread into a 10 x 15 inch jelly roll pan or a 9 x 13 pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes for a 10 x 15 pan, or 35-40 minutes for a 9 x 13 pan, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Cool before frosting.
- Make frosting:
- Mix together the cream cheese and butter, add vanilla.
- Add the sugar 1/2 cup at a time, mixing until smooth.
- Add milk if needed to reach desired consistency.
- Frost bars, cut in bars or squares.
