Credit for this recipe goes to Aunt Shari and Carol. They included it on the recipe cards that were passed around at my bridal shower (9 years ago now, time goes by too fast!) I added a few changes at the bottom.
Pumpkin Bars
1 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 c. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
Mix above ingredients together and set aside.
2 c. sugar
2 c. pumpkin pie fillings
4 eggs
1 c. oil
Mix above ingredients together and then combine and mix with dry ingredients. Pour into a greased jellyroll pan. Bake at 350* for 30 minutes. Cool and frost with cream cheese frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
3 1/2 c. powdered sugar
3/4 c. butter
1 tsp. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
4 0z. cream cheese
Combine above ingredients and beat thoroughly. Add more sugar or milk for desired consistency.
My Variation:
I just added dates, nuts, and chocolate chips to the pumpkin bars (about a cup or so each). Because of the sweetness of the dates and chocolate chips I decided not to do the frosting. They are so good, a perfect fall treat.
These could also easily be made into muffins.
1 comment:
Oh - leave off the cream cheese frosting?! Isn't that the reason to have pumpkin bars? Seriously - I would choose to leave out the dates just so I could have the cream cheese frosting. LOL!
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