Pumpkin Spice Bars with a creamy cheesecake filling and a streusel topping with chunks of achromatic cocoa volition fulfill each of your pumpkin cravings. These bars sensation a batch similar pumpkin pie, but you tin prime them up and devour them with your fingers.
Everyone is astir apt sick of pumpkin recipes by now, but I’ve been truthful focused connected apples and saccharine potatoes I haven’t done immoderate baking with pumpkin since I made Pumpkin White Chocolate cookies back successful June. So beryllium prepared for a fewer much upcoming pumpkin recipes. (Originally posted October 23, 2013.)
Easy Cake Mix Recipe
A container of spice barroom premix performs treble work successful these Pumpkin Spice Bars and makes them ace casual to prepare. The spice barroom premix is the basal for some the bottommost crust and the streusel furniture connected top.
The pumpkin cheesecake furniture that is sandwiched successful the mediate is divine. I emotion however it tastes acold retired of the refrigerator.
Some chopped pecans adhd a small nuttiness and crunch to the crust furniture and chopped achromatic cocoa added to the streusel adds other sweetness and different constituent of flavor. Enjoy!
How To Make
More elaborate instructions successful look paper below.
- Make the Crust. Combine a container of spice barroom mix, melted butter, finely chopped pecans, and vanilla extract and premix well. Set speech 1 cupful for the topping and property the remaining substance into a 9×13-inch baking pan. Bake for 13 to 15 minutes. Let cool.
- Make Filling. Beat pick food until smooth, past bushed successful brownish sugar, pumpkin, an egg, and vanilla extract. Spread implicit cooled baked crust.
- Make Streusel. To reserved mixture, adhd chopped achromatic chocolate, melted butter, and oats. Sprinkle implicit filling.
- Bake for 30 minutes. Let chill and past sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Storage
Leftovers tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality successful the refrigerator for 5 days. Serve acold oregon astatine country temperature.
More Pumpkin Recipes
- Pumpkin Cake Roll
- Pumpkin Praline Torte
- Marshmallow Pumpkin Pie
- Pumpkin Spice Gooey Butter Cake
- Pumpkin Cheesecake with Gingersnap Crust
- Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Nutella Cream Cheese Frosting
Pumpkin Spice Bars
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 box spice barroom mix
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 (8-ounce) package pick cheese, softened
- 1/3 cup firmly packed brownish sugar
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup finely chopped achromatic chocolate
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- 1/3 cup uncooked regular oats
- powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine archetypal 4 ingredients successful a ample vessel and premix good with a fork. Set 1 cupful speech for streusel topping. Press remaining crumbs into a greased 13×9- inch pan.
- Bake for 13 to 15 minutes, until puffy and set. Place cookware connected a ligament rack and chill for 20 minutes.
- Place pick food successful a mixing vessel and bushed with an electrical mixer for 30 seconds. Add brownish sugar, pumpkin, egg, and vanilla extract and bushed to blend. Pour filling implicit cooled baked crust.
- Add achromatic chocolate, 1 tablespoonful melted butter, and oats to reserved 1 cupful streusel and mix. Sprinkle implicit filling.
- Bake for 30 minutes oregon until halfway is set. Cool wholly earlier serving. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
- Store successful refrigerator.
Notes
Nutrition
Originally posted October 23, 2014.
The station Pumpkin Spice Bars appeared archetypal connected Spicy Southern Kitchen.