Pumpkin Bars with Browned Butter Frosting
These moist pumpkin bars are topped with creamy browned butter cream cheese frosting!
Servings: 24
Calories: 309kcal
Ingredients
Pumpkin Bars
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 tespoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 cup oil
- 1 15-ounce can pureed pumpkin
- 4 eggs
Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 3-ounce package cream cheese softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3-4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
Instructions
Pumpkin Bars
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, soda, salt and cinnamon.
- Add the oil, pumpkin and eggs and stir until the batter is smooth. (You can mix by hand or with an electric mixer/stand mixer)
- Pour into a greased jelly roll pan (12 x 17") and baked for 20-25 minutes.
- Let cool completely and frost with the Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting.
Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
- Add the stick of butter to a small saucepan over medium heat.
- Stir the melted butter frequently for 5-10 minutes or until the butter starts turning brown.
- As soon as the butter starts to turn color, remove from the heat and pour into a bowl. Refrigerate for at least an hour before making the frosting.
- Add the cooled browned butter (and all the brown particles the sunk to the bottom!) and cream cheese to a mixing bowl. Beat until smooth.
- Beat in the vanilla, 3 cups of the powdered sugar and the milk.
- Add the additional cup of powdered sugar if it needs to be thickened a bit.
- Spread on top of the cooled pumpkin bars.
Nutrition
Serving: 1bar | Calories: 309kcal | Carbohydrates: 42g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 4.5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 41mg | Sodium: 146mg | Potassium: 30mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 33g | Vitamin A: 2478IU | Calcium: 42mg | Iron: 0.6mg