Paula Deen’s Pumpkin Bar Recipe
These bars are the best Pumpkin Bars I’ve ever had. They’re more like a moist and delicious pumpkin cake the the best cream cheese frosting in the world. The recipe is from Paula Deen & Friends: Living It Up, Southern Style
PUMPKIN BARS
4 eggs
1 - 2/3 cups granulated sugar
1 cup oil
one 15 ounce can pumpkin
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
ICING:
One 3 ounce package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened (I used and recommend butter)
2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Using an electric mixer at medium speed, combine the eggs, sugar, oil, and pumpkin until light and fluffy. Stir together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and baking soda. Add the dry ingredients to the pumpkin mixture and mix at low speed until thoroughly comined and the batter is smooth.
3. Spread the batter in an ungreased nonstick 13 by 10 inch baking pan. Bake for 30 minutes. Let cool completely before frosting.
4. To make the icing: Combine the cream cheese and butter in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Add the sugar and mix at low speed until smooth. Add the sugar and mix at low speed until combined. Stir in the vanilla and mix again. Spread on cooled pumpkin bars.
Makes 48 small bars or 24 larger ones.
This is, without a doubt, one of my favorite Cookbooks. The cover on mine is stained and tattered and the pages are as worn as sequins on a drag queen. Some of the recipes from this collection are:
Buttermilk Pound Cake
Green Chili Corn Muffins
Fresh Asparagus with Lemon Butter
Hot Chicken Salad
Broccoli Casserole
Almond Danish Swirls
Wild Rice Salad
Suzie’s Peach Pickles
Tomatoes with Blue Cheese
Teriyaki Shrimp
Hot Spinach-Artichoke Dip
Lemon Bars
Animal-Shaped Sugar Cookies
Chocolate Chip Pie
Cuban Sandwiches
Kentucky Country Ham
Southern Biscuits
….and many, many, many, many, many more!
{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }
very disappointed…the recipe given was for pumpkin CAKE not bars.
Paula,
I tried your receipe for pumpkin bars, I loved it. I made it for Thanksgiving. I watched your show every single day.
Sue
hi, Missy -
They’re actually Pumpkin Bars - the recipe is straight from Paula’s cookbook and the title is “Pumpkin Bars.”
I guess if you didn’t slice them, they could pass as a cake. That actually might be something worth trying! - Joi
I am interested in making these for party favors for a fall themed party and putting them in cylo bags. Does the icing harden at all when air is introduced or will it just turn into a big mess in the bag…????
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