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Brown Sugar Frosted Pumpkin Bars

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Pumpkin bars frosted with a brown sugar frosting! Recipe adapted from Handle the Heat’s Pumpkin Bars with Brown Sugar Frosting.

Ingredients

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Pumpkin Bars:

  • 1 3/4 Cup Pumpkin Puree
  • 2 1/4 Cup Flour
  • 14 Tablespoons (I stick and 6 Tablespoons) Butter, melted
  • 2 Teaspoon Cinnamon
  • 3/4 Teaspoon Ground Ginger
  • 3/4 Teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
  • 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
  • 3/4 Teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1 Cup Packed Dark Brown Sugar
  • 2 Large Eggs
  • 1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract

Brown Sugar Frosting:

  • 1 Stick (8 Tablespoons) Butter
  • 1/4 Cup Dark Brown Sugar
  • 1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon
  • 1/8 Teaspoon Salt
  • 1 1/2 Cups Confectioner’s Sugar
  • 1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 1 + Tablespoon of Milk (more if needed)

Instructions

  1. Line a 9×13 Pan with parchment paper.
  2. Preheat oven to 350*
  3. Combine Flour, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Whisk to combine.
  4. In a mixer, combined butter, brown sugar, egg, vanilla, and pumpkin puree.
  5. Gently add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture.
  6. Pour batter into prepared pan.
  7. Bake at 350* for 25-30 minutes or until tester comes out clean from center of pan.
  8. Cool

To make frosting:

  1. In a mixer, combine butter and sugar until light and creamy.
  2. Add cinnamon, salt and gradually add confectioner’s sugar.
  3. When all of the ingredients are combined, add milk and vanilla, until frosting is the right consistency.
  4. Frost pumpkin bars with frosting. Cut into squares or bars.

Find it online: https://mythankfultable.com/2017/11/22/brown-sugar-frosted-pumpkin-bars/