When a bar is more practical than a pumpkin cheesecake, make a customized pumpkin bar.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 55 mins |
| Additional Time: | 2 hrs 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 3 hrs 20 mins |
| Servings: | 48 |
| Yield: | 48 bars |
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- ⅔ cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a 11×15-inch baking pan with aluminum foil.
- Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and brown sugar in a bowl. Cut in butter using a pastry blender or 2 forks until crust mixture is crumbly. Press 2/3 of the mixture evenly into the prepared baking pan. Reserve remainder for the streusel topping.
- Bake crust in the preheated oven until lightly browned, about 15 minutes. Let cool, about 10 minutes.
- Combine cream cheese, pumpkin puree, and white sugar in a bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir vanilla and pumpkin pie spice into the filling mixture. Pour over the cooled crust.
- Mix reserved crust mixture and walnuts together in a small bowl make streusel topping. Sprinkle streusel topping over the filling.
- Bake in the preheated oven until filling is set, 40 to 45 minutes. Refrigerate until firm, at least 2 hours. Cut into bars.
- Substitute pecans for walnuts if preferred.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 135 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 12 g |
| Cholesterol | 28 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 110 mg |
| Sugars | 8 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
These were rich, these were good. I made them as written and I would make them again and again! People couldn’t stop eating them. 5 stars if not more!
I sent these with my husband for his Thanksgiving potluck at work and now everyone wants the recipe. That makes for a pretty good recommendation. The ingredients list includes baking soda for the crust, but the directions never mention it, so I left it out and the bars were great.