Delicious Grandma’s Pumpkin Bars

Delicious Grandma’s Pumpkin Bars - This formula is from my mother's congregation cookbook, they were put together by my grandma. My mother made these consistently in the fall. This is the first formula just calling for cinnamon as the flavor, yet don't hesitate to zest them up a piece if that is your thing! Like any prepared great with flavors, these will taste best the following day, whenever the flavors get an opportunity to merge. I finished off with pecans since that is the way my mother consistently did it and for me this is an absolute necessity! Expectation you appreciate!

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Delicious Grandma’s Pumpkin Bars

Ingredients:

• 1 can (15 oz.) pumpkin, not pumpkin pie mix!
• ¾ cup vegetable oil
• 1 2/3 cups light brown sugar, lightly packed
• 4 eggs
• 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
• 1 ½ cups rolled oats or quick oats (not instant)
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon*
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt

Cream Cheese Icings:

• 4 oz. (½ a bar) room temperature cream cheese
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ¼ cup (½ a stick) room temperature butter
• 2 cups powdered confectioners sugar

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 9×13 cake pan by spraying with no-stick cooking spray.

In a bowl, mix together pumpkin, vegetable oil, brown sugar, and eggs, stir to mix well.

In a sifter or whisked together in a bowl, combine the flour, cinnamon (or spice mix), baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

Add the flour mixture all at once to the pumpkin mixture and stir just to combine, a few small lumps are OK. Stir in oats and stir to combine. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 25-30 minutes or until it tests done. Let cool completely.

*for a spicier bar, use 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 2 teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice. You and also make your own spice blend (cloves, ginger, nutmeg etc…) to equal roughly 1 tablespoon.

Cream cheese icing:

Combine all ingredients in a bowl and beat with an electric mixer until smooth, spread over cooled bars.

Delicious Grandma’s Pumpkin Bars Recipe