Pumpkin Bars

Ingredients:

4 Eggs
1 2/3 Cups sugar
1 Cup Vegetable Oil
15 oz can Pumpkin
2 Cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
Pinch freshly grated nutmeg (optional)

Icing:

8 oz package cream cheese
1/2 Cup butter, softened
2 Cups confectioners' sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 350.

Using an electric mixer at medium speed, combine eggs, sugar, oil and pumpkin until light and fluffy. Add baking powder, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and nutmeg (if adding) and flour to mixture at a low speed until compeletly mixed.
Spread batter into a greased 13 X 10 baking pan. Bake for 30 minutes. Let cool completely before adding icing. Cut into bars.

Make Icing: combine the cream cheese and butter in mixes on medium speed until smooth. Add the confectioners sugar at low speed until mixed then add vanilla.

Spread on cooled pumpkin bars.

This is not my recipe it's Paula Deen's with the exception of the nutmeg, I added this myself.  Enjoy with some great apple cider or mulled hot cider.


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