Pumpkin Bars

It is the middle of October and I am all ready for pumpkin! I feel like the fall is already moving so fast. I’m sure that this feeling has a lot to do with the fact that we are moving in just a few short weeks. If you didn’t see my last post, I announced that my family and I are moving to our dream house, or at least our dream kitchen I should say. I so can’t wait till we are there and I can start baking up a storm with my new appliances. *sigh…

While I am waiting, there is always pumpkin to keep me occupied. How many pumpkin recipes have you made so far this season? For me, I have made pumpkin pancakes and these amazingly delicious pumpkin bars.

Pumpkin bars are one of my favorite pumpkin recipes. I simply can’t pass up the combination of pumpkin cake and cream cheese frosting. Especially when the cake is thick, moist, and buttery.

I got this pumpkin bar recipe out of an old farm cookbook and let me tell you, it is one of my favorite versions because I think it is a little thicker than your average pumpkin bars. And in my opinion, the thicker the better when it comes to cake. These bars are truly heavenly.

I love the smell of the pumpkin and spices all baking in the oven and filling the house with such a sweet aroma. It truly isn’t fall to me until I smell pumpkin baking in the kitchen!

I hope you are enjoying fall. If you haven’t made a pumpkin recipe yet, I highly encourage you to try these amazing pumpkin bars. It will bring fall right into your own kitchen! 🙂

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Pumpkin Bars

Ingredients

4 eggs
2 c. sugar
2 c. pureed pumpkin, NOT pumpkin pie mix
3/4 c. melted butter (1 1/2 sticks)
2 c. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg

Cream Cheese Frosting

3 oz. cream cheese
6 T. butter, softened
1 T. milk
1 t. vanilla
3 c. powdered sugar
additional milk as per desired consistency
1 bag of mallow pumpkins (optional)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Foil and spray a jelly roll style pan (10x15) with baking spray.
In a large bowl, mix eggs, sugar, pumpkin and butter until creamy.
In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and spices.
Mix the flour mixture in the pumpkin mixture in three additions, scraping down the bowl after each addition. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and spread evenly. Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely before frosting.

For the frosting

Cream together the cream cheese, butter, milk and vanilla until smooth
Add the powdered sugar in several additions, scraping down the bowl after each addition.
Add more milk, a tablespoon at a time until the frosting reaches a spreadable consistency.
Spread the frosting on the cooled cake. Top with mallow pumpkin candies if desired, slice and serve.

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Try these other pumpkin treats:

Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Parfaits