Everyone needs an absolutely delicious pumpkin bar recipe to usher in the fall season. Consider this one yours! It features an extra moist crumb, with the perfect pumpkin pie spice level and a homemade cream cheese frosting. In other words, this recipe is perfect, especially when you’re feeding a crowd. So add these pumpkin bars to your recipe box now and when fall parties and occasions start popping on your calendar, you’ll have the best dessert on the whole table!
Harvest Pumpkin-Spice Bars
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 1 hr 40 min
- Servings 49
- Ingredients 17
Ingredients
Bars
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 can (15 oz) pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
- 2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 cup raisins, if desired
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1 package (3 oz) cream cheese, softened
- 1/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, if desired

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease bottom and sides of 15x10x1-inch pan with shortening. In large bowl, beat eggs, granulated sugar, oil and pumpkin until smooth. Stir in flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, ginger and cloves. Stir in raisins. Spread in pan.
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Step2Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until light brown. Cool completely in pan on cooling rack, about 2 hours.
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Step3In medium bowl, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla with electric mixer on low speed until smooth. Gradually beat in powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, on low speed until smooth and spreadable. Spread frosting over bars. Sprinkle with walnuts. For bars, cut into 7 rows by 7 rows. Store in refrigerator.
Nutrition
140
Calories
7g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
18g
Total Carbohydrate
13g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Bar
- Calories
- 140
- Calories from Fat
- 60
- Total Fat
- 7g
- 10%
- Saturated Fat
- 2g
- 9%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 25mg
- 8%
- Sodium
- 90mg
- 4%
- Potassium
- 30mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 18g
- 6%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 13g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 30%
- 30%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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