These darling pumpkin pie lookalike cookie bars will be the hit of your fall gathering. Betty Crocker™ sugar cookie mix and pudding make a soft and chewy bar flavored with pumpkin pie spice and decorated with our Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting tinted and piped to mimic the look of the classic pie.
Pumpkin Pie Cookie Bars
- Prep Time 50 min
- Total 2 hr 35 min
- Servings 27
- Ingredients 7
Ingredients
- 1 pouch (17.5 oz) Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix
- Butter and egg called for on cookie mix pouch for Drop Cookies
- 1 box (3.4 oz) Jell-O™ vanilla-flavor instant pudding & pie filling mix
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 2 1/3 cups from 2 tubs (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Vanilla Frosting
- 1 teaspoon Betty Crocker™ orange gel food color
- 1 teaspoon unsweetened baking cocoa
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Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Line 13x9-inch pan with foil, leaving foil overhanging at 2 opposite sides of pan; spray with cooking spray.
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Step2In large bowl, mix cookie mix, softened butter, egg, dry pudding mix and pumpkin pie spice with spoon or hands until dough forms. Press dough in bottom of pan.
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Step3Bake 16 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely on cooling rack, about 1 hour.
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Step4Remove bars from pan by lifting foil; peel foil away. Cut into 27 triangles as follows: Cut 3 horizontal rows. Cut each row into 9 triangles so each triangle has a 2-inch wide base. (See link below for diagram.) Set aside end pieces for snacking.
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Step5In small microwavable bowl, place 1 1/4 cups frosting. Stir in orange food color and 1/4 teaspoon of the cocoa until blended. Spoon 1/2 cup orange-tinted frosting into decorating bag fitted with small round piping tip. Pipe a border on outside edge of each triangle. Let stand 15 minutes to set border.
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Step6Microwave remaining orange-tinted frosting uncovered on High 10 to 30 seconds or until thin enough to pour and spread (also known as flooding). Place about 1 teaspoon warmed frosting in center of each triangle. Using back of measuring teaspoon, carefully push and spread to glaze top of bar. Repeat with each triangle. Rewarm frosting in microwave to maintain glazing consistency if needed. Let stand 10 minutes to set glaze.
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Step7In another small bowl, place 3/4 cup frosting; stir in remaining 3/4 teaspoon cocoa. Spoon cocoa frosting into another decorating bag fitted with small star piping tip. Pipe 5 to 6 small stars at short edge of each triangle.
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Step8Clean same star piping tip used in above step, and place into another decorating bag. Spoon remaining 1/3 cup vanilla frosting into decorating bag. Pipe small rosette in center of each bar. (Use photo as guide.)
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Step9Store covered in single layer in airtight container at room temperature.
Nutrition
230
Calories
9g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
36g
Total Carbohydrate
26g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Bar
- Calories
- 230
- Calories from Fat
- 80
- Total Fat
- 9g
- 13%
- Saturated Fat
- 4 1/2g
- 23%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 25mg
- 8%
- Sodium
- 190mg
- 8%
- Potassium
- 30mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 36g
- 12%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 26g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 2%
- 2%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 2 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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