Pumpkin Bars with Browned Butter Frosting

5 from 2 votes

These moist pumpkin bars are topped with creamy browned butter cream cheese frosting!

Prep Time10

Cook Time25

Cool TIme2

Total Time2 35

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: pumpkin

Servings:

Calories: 309kcal

Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, soda, salt and cinnamon.
2 cups all purpose flour, 2 cups sugar, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 tespoon salt, 2 teaspoons ground 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)
1 cup oil, 1 15-ounce can pumpkin puree, 4 eggs
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.

Add the stick of butter to a small saucepan over medium heat.
1/2 cup butter
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.
1 3-ounce package cream cheese
Beat in the vanilla, 3 cups of the powdered sugar and the milk.
1 teaspoon vanilla, 3-4 cups powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon milk
Add the additional cup of powdered sugar if it needs to be thickened a bit.
Spread on top of the cooled pumpkin bars.