Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
These pumpkin bars are made with pumpkin puree and fall spices, then topped with cream cheese frosting. Easy to make and the perfect dessert for fall!
Today’s dessert is perfect for fall and a great use of extra pumpkin you might have sitting around: Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting. The secret to these moist and flavorful pumpkin bars is a rich and creamy frosting that is swirled in the batter before baking. Another secret ingredient is shredded carrots! Not only do they add extra vitamins and nutrients, but the shredded carrots keep the batter super light and moist. The end result is a pumpkin bar scented with warm fall spices and dotted with delicious cream cheese.
Ingredients
- For the pumpkin bars: whole wheat pastry flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, salt, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, brown sugar, coconut oil, eggs, egg whites, pure pumpkin, and a large carrot.
- For the cream cheese frosting: light cream cheese, sugar, and skim milk.
How to Make Perfect Pumpkin bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
Start your pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting by mixing all of your dry ingredients in one bowl and your wet ingredients in another. Then you’ll slowly add your flour mixture to the wet ingredients until fully incorporated.
Then take your pumpkin mixture and spread it evenly in a prepared baking dish.
Then in a small bowl, whisk the cream cheeese, sugar, and milk until smooth and combined. Next using a spoon, dollop some of the cream cheese frosting evenly across the pumpkin mixture.
Using a knife, make cutting motions across the top of the cream cheese and pumpkin mixture to create a swirled design. Then toss in the oven at 350 for about 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Let your pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting cool before cutting and serving, and enjoy!
Frequently Asked Questions:
Could I add chocolate chips to these?
If you’re a fan of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies or muffins, adding chocoalte chips to these pumpkin bars would also be tasty!
How do you store pumpkin bars?
Keep them in an airtight container for up to a week in the fridge, or a couple days at room temperature.
Can pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting be frozen?
Yes you can! They actually freeze pretty nicely, like lots of cake-like desserts. Airtight container and they an freeze for over a month.
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Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
These pumpkin bars are made with pumpkin puree and fall spices, then topped with cream cheese frosting. Easy to make and the perfect dessert for fall!
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Servings: Bars
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Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees and spray a 15 x 10 jelly roll pan with non-stick butter spray.
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In a small bowl, wisk together flour, spices, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
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In a large bowl, beat together sugar and butter substitute with an electric mixer on high until crumbly.
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With mixer on medium, slowly add eggs one at a time.
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Continue mixing and add pumpkin and carrots.
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Add flour mixture to the wet mixture until well combined.
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Pour into jelly roll pan.
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In a small bowl, wisk together cream cheese, sugar and milk until smooth.
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Drop teaspoon-fulls of topping over pumpkin batter and swirl and cut mixture into batter with a butter knife.
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Bake for 20 to 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
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Cool in pan completely on wire rack before cutting into squares.
Serving: 1pieceCalories: 71kcalCarbohydrates: 12gProtein: 1gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 8mgSodium: 90mgPotassium: 71mgFiber: 1gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 1652IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 19mgIron: 1mg
