butter (not oil) pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting
(5 ratings)
As with my banana bread recipe, I truly dislike the standard "one cup of oil" which is so common. This uses a 1/2 cup of butter instead. Growing up on a farm where we made our own butter, cheese, etc., I'm somewhat of a butter fan!
(5 ratings)
prep time
10 Min
cook time
25 Min
method
Bake
Ingredients For butter (not oil) pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting
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1/2 cbutter
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1 cbrown sugar, packed
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2eggs
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1 tspvanilla extract
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1/2 tspbaking soda
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1/2 tspbaking powder
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1/2 tspsalt
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1 tspcinnamon
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1/4 tspginger
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1/4 tspnutmeg
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1 cflour
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3/4 cpumpkin, canned or cooked
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3 ozpkg. cream cheese, softened
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6 Tbspbutter, softened
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2 cconfectioners' sugar
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1 tspvanilla extract
How To Make butter (not oil) pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting
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1Cream butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and beat until smooth.
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2Mix in baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg.
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3Mix in flour alternately with pumpkin. Do not overmix.
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4Spread in buttered and floured 9" x 13" baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees 20-25 minutes. Do not overbake.
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5CREAM CHEESE FROSTING: With electric mixer, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and beat until smooth. Frost cooled pumpkin bars.
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6At this point, feel free to cut and enjoy, or add chopped nuts on top of frosting before cutting.
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