Easy Pumpkin Bars Recipe

Easy Homemade Pumpkin Bars Recipe

Hello Everyone:)

I consider myself sweet tooth- always looking for something sweet at the end of every meal. When it comes to desserts, I have tons of favorites (no surprise!:) One of them was this delicious Pumpkin Bar. My family made Pumpkin Bars pretty much every Halloween and holiday seasons. This year is no different, my beloved in-laws made homemade Pumpkin Bars as our sweet treat after kids trick or treating, as always every bite was scrumptious. So, today's recipe was inspired by my in-laws pumpkin bars. It taste so yummy that I have to share this recipe to all of you. 

This is one of my family's favorite bars and I hope it will be your next favorite too. Indeed, this Pumpkin bars is perfect treat for everyone. A must-try recipe for sure! I hope you all excited as I am. If so, grab your favorite drink and all the ingredients needed. Lets get started, Shall we?

**Note: For this recipe I used store bought pumpkin and cream cheese icing. Feel free to use your own homemade icing recipe. Adjust the quantity for larger crowd. I made 24 little squares of this recipe. Enjoy baking and have fun!:)

Easy Homemade Pumpkin Bars Recipe

Ingredients:

2 cups All-Purpose flour
1 can (15 ounces) solid -pack pumpkin
1 cup canola oil
1-2/3 cups sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt

ICING -feel free to use your own cream cheese icing recipe. I used one store bought ( 16 oz Betty Crocker Creamy Cream Cheese Icing)

Directions:

1.) Preheat the oven to 350 
2.) In a bowl, beat the eggs, sugar, oil and pumpkin until well blended. In a separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients (flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt)
3.) Gradually add the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture and mix well. Pour into an ungreased 15x10x1 inches baking pan.
4.) Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until set. Cool completely
5.) Once the Pumkin Bars is cool completely. Spread the icing over bars. Store in refrigerator until served. Share this pumpkin bars to your family and friends. Enjoy!

It's super easy to make and taste delicious. A perfect bite of goodness indeed. Now, that holiday is fast approaching this quick and scrumptious pumpkin bars dessert for the whole family is a must-have. I personally love this recipe and perfect for holiday. Yum!

I hope this blog post inspire you to make this delicious Pumpkin Bars for your family and friends. As of this moment, I'm finishing my last bite of Pumpkin Bars.  It's so good!!:) Until next time everyone! Enjoy the rest of the week. I'll see you soon for more fun blog post. Stay gorgeous as always!:)

xoxo- Melgie

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Halloween Cookies

Halloween Cookies

Just a quick post of what we did yesterday in celebration of Halloween and Trick or Treat for my kiddies. It was painful! the weather is pretty bad that they need to reschedule the trick or treat a little early. It's raining, little cold and windy for my little Cinderella and power ranger liking. Anyways, we did went to few houses at my mother-in-law neighborhood and the kids are pretty happy with their candy haul. It was fun! Aside from trick or treat we also made this sugar cookies and my kids LOVED it, especially the decorating part..(hahaha) and you don't wanna imagine the clean up afterward, It took me awhile... What matters is we did have fun doing it.

Below is the sugar cookie recipe. I would say the easiest sugar cookie recipe there is. Hope everyone is having fun on Halloween. See you guys in few days for more fun recipes!

Notes:

- I used store bought icing for this recipe. Feel free to use homemade icing if you want.:)

- Used your favorite icing color and feel free create your spooky design... wink:)

 Sugar cookie recipe: inspired by- Allrecipe.com

 

Ingredients:

* makes 4 dozen Change Servings

 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup softened butter

1 1/2 cup white sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions: 

1) Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside. 

2.)In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients. Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls, and place onto ungreased cookie sheets. 

3.)Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden. Let stand on cookie sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks. 

Spooky CUTE spiderweb cookies with cream cheese icing

BOO-tiful cookie sandwich with cream cheese filling.

Jack-O'-Lantern Experience

First Jack-O'-Lantern Experience

 A jack-o'-lantern is a carved pumpkin, turnip or beet, associated chiefly with the holiday of Hallowe'en, and was named after the phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs, called will-o'-the-wisp or jack-o'-lantern. In a jack-o'-lantern, the top is cut off, and the inside flesh then scooped out; an image, usually a monstrous face, is carved out, and the lid replaced. It is typically seen during Halloween.

 The origin of Jack o' Lantern carving is uncertain. The carving of vegetables has been a common practice in many parts of the world, with Gourds being the earliest plant species domesticated by humans c. 10,000 years ago, primarily for their carving potential- ( source: wikipedia )

Trick-or-treating or guising is a customary practice for children on Halloween in many countries. Children in costumes travel from house to house in order to ask for treats such as candy (or, in some cultures, money) with the question "Trick or treat?". The "trick" is a (usually idle) threat to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given to them. ( source: wikipedia )

This is our first time to carved Pumpkin and I'm pretty excited about it, more than excited than my kiddies, I think..(wink). I made Easy Spaghetti for our dinner and my kids helped me make Iced Pumpkin Cookies for our yummy dessert. Pumpkin carving is really fun activities for the whole family, especially for kids. Awesome experience!!
Trick or treat is just around the corner with that being said, My kiddies are well prepared with their costumes. My daughter will gonna be Cinderella and my son will gonna be Power Ranger. I'm beyond exited to see them trick or treating this year, their both prepared and know what's trick or treat all about.:) I'm sure we gonna have fun on Halloween! How about you? Any plan for Halloween? Any carving ideas or tips wanna share. I'm more than happy to know.:)
Check out below our first carved pumpkins. Enjoy the rest of the week!  I'll see you in few days for more recipes.

Things you'll need:
Pumpkins
Carving tools
Trash Bag
Tea light- to light up the carved pumpkins at night
Stencil-  bhg.com- free printable pumpkin stencils

( My daughter's Pick-  BOO-tiful Kitty Cat! )

Directions:
1.) Take the bottom part of the pumpkin, use spoon to scrape the inside cavity of the pumpkin. Clean it really good make sure no seeds left.
2.) Using your stencil printed in the computer, trace it over your clean pumpkin. THAT'S IT!
Note: If carving for simple pumpkin face you don't have to use stencil. Whatever makes you feel  easy and comfortable..
3.) Follow the stencil line then start carving, start with the most difficult one like the eyes, tale, mouth and ears. Then do the rest slowly!

( My son's pick- SPOOKY Ghost )

4.) After done carving, wipe the carved pumpkins. Make sure that everything looks good. Wait for night time to come and light up the carved pumpkin using the tea light. I think its about time to grab some Iced Pumpkin Cookies.. wink:)

Kiddies super LOVED the carved Pumpkins-- Yay! that's what its all about
Making sweet unforgettable memories!
Happy Halloween Everyone! See you in few days for more exciting and fun recipes..

(xoxox- sweetcuisinera)