| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 30 min |
| Prep: | 10 min |
| Cook: | 20 min |
| Yield: | 16 servings |
Ingredients
- Bars
- 1 box (15.3 oz) Betty Crocker Fiber One apple cinnamon muffin mix
- 2 cups canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
- 2 cups water
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- Topping
- 1 package (3 oz) cream cheese, softened
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 cups chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400degreesF. Spray bottom only of 9-inch square pan with cooking spray. In medium bowl, stir muffin mix, pumpkin, water, oil and eggs just until blended (batter may be lumpy). Spread in pan.
- Bake 17 to 21 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
- In small bowl, mix cream cheese, powdered sugar, milk and vanilla until smooth; drizzle over bars. Sprinkle with walnuts. For bars, cut into 4 rows by 4 rows.
Reviews
After reading reviews on this forum, I took the advice of others and added more cream cheese as well as baking longer. I also made a couple changes of my own; one was not by my choice but turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
My grocery store didn’t have apple cinnamon muffin mix, so I ended up buying Krusteaz cinnamon swirl crumb cake and muffin mix. I ended up having not enough canned pumpkin so I did half pumpkin and half homemade slow cooker apple butter. This was awesome!! Plus, there is a cinnamon brown sugar topping that come with the mix, so instead of plain powdered sugar I mixed this with the cream cheese. The bars were dense and full of pumpkin and apple flavor, and the frosting is perfect for both fall favorites. I baked close to 40 minutes.
We made it today and took it to a dinner. They all loved it! We also used about 8 oz of cream cheese instead of 3. I couldn’t find the Betty Crocker so we used Duncan Hines. Really good!
First of all, the frosting needs to have 8oz of cream cheese not 3oz. Bake the cake longer. I baked mine for 20 min. and it is way undercooked. Otherwise, it is tasty. 🙂
I checked the reviews before I got to making this. So I looked on the Betty Crocker site for their recipe and it’s quite different. it looks like some tried to turn it into a double batch or something but got their math all wrong. I’m gonna try it. it sounds good.
There has to be a mistake somewhere – no way will this cake bake in 20 minutes! I baked this batter in muffin cups for 25 minutes and they were still undercooked!!