Pumpkin Bars
Nov. 9th, 2009 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinThese started out life as a cookie recipe that I made wrong, but they're very nice. Even the baby likes them.
Pumpkin Bars
1/3 c vegetable oil or softened butter (I usually use butter)
1 1/3 c sugar ( or 2/3 c each white and brown sugar)
2 eggs
1, 15-oz can pumpkin (not pumpkin-pie filling)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp grated lemon zest
2 1/2 c all-purpose flour
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp each ground ginger, allspice
1 tsp each ground nutmeg, cinnamon
(or spices to taste -- we've moved to using a couple teaspoons of Penzey's pumpkin pie spice, plus some ginger and cardamon)
Optional: chocolate chips, nuts, dried fruit to taste
Beat shortening (or butter) until light and fluffy. Bteat in sugar, then eggs one at a time, then pumpkin, vanilla, lemon juice and zest.
In another bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and spices. Slowly fold dry ingredients into moist. Fold in chips or nuts or fruit if you're using them, then spread dough into a greased brownie pan.
Bake in preheated oven at 400 degress for 20 minutes.
If you're feeling really self indulgent, rub the top of the hot bars with cold butter as soon as they come out of the oven. (Mom used to do this with brownies, which adds a nice bit of flavor, and keeps the tops soft. She also sprinkled the buttered top with powdered sugar, just a little, and you could do that here, or use cinnamon-sugar.)
Pumpkin Bars
1/3 c vegetable oil or softened butter (I usually use butter)
1 1/3 c sugar ( or 2/3 c each white and brown sugar)
2 eggs
1, 15-oz can pumpkin (not pumpkin-pie filling)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp grated lemon zest
2 1/2 c all-purpose flour
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp each ground ginger, allspice
1 tsp each ground nutmeg, cinnamon
(or spices to taste -- we've moved to using a couple teaspoons of Penzey's pumpkin pie spice, plus some ginger and cardamon)
Optional: chocolate chips, nuts, dried fruit to taste
Beat shortening (or butter) until light and fluffy. Bteat in sugar, then eggs one at a time, then pumpkin, vanilla, lemon juice and zest.
In another bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and spices. Slowly fold dry ingredients into moist. Fold in chips or nuts or fruit if you're using them, then spread dough into a greased brownie pan.
Bake in preheated oven at 400 degress for 20 minutes.
If you're feeling really self indulgent, rub the top of the hot bars with cold butter as soon as they come out of the oven. (Mom used to do this with brownies, which adds a nice bit of flavor, and keeps the tops soft. She also sprinkled the buttered top with powdered sugar, just a little, and you could do that here, or use cinnamon-sugar.)
