Swirled Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bars
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Ingredients
6 tablespoons butter, melted and slightly cooled
1 3/4 cups sugar
3 large eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 package (8 oz.) cream cheese, at room temperature
Preparation
1. In a bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar until smooth. Beat in 2 eggs, pumpkin, and 1/3 cup water until well blended, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. In another bowl, mix flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and nutmeg; stir or beat into butter mixture until well blended. Spread batter evenly in a buttered and floured 10- by 15-inch baking pan.
2. In a bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat cream cheese, remaining egg, and remaining 1/4 cup sugar until smooth.
3. Drop cream cheese mixture in evenly spaced 1-tablespoon portions over batter. Pull a knife tip through filling to swirl slightly into batter.
4. Bake in a 350° oven until center of pumpkin batter (not cream cheese mixture) springs back when touched, about 30 minutes. Let cool completely in pan, then cut into bars.
Source: MyRecipes.Com
These look amazing!!!! I need to run to the store for some cream cheese and then I must bake these!
These are absolutely delicious! Hubby and I have been eating away at this pan all week. I kicked the recipe up a notch, hope you dont mind.But I added teaspoonfuls of cranberry/cherry sauce ,just before I put the cream cheese on. I didnt have a 10 X 15 pan so I used a 9X12, which made it more like a cake, but still wonderful! I also decreased the sugar to 1 cup, as we are trying to watch our caloric intake. I find most recipes are still sweet enough with 1 c. of sugar to 2 cups of flour. But , thanks so much for sharing your recipe. We love it!
These look really great and yummy, pumpkin and cream cheese are a match made in heaven. I can’t wait until my daughter is of the age where she can help bake goodies, what a great thing to share with your babysitee (if that’s even a word)!! :)
I love all things pumpkin, not as much as I love chocolate, but pumpkin is up high on my list of favorite treats. These Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bars look and sound soooo good. I’ll definitely be making these soon. Thanks for another great recipe.
Oh I will take a batch please! I am saving this one to try out for sure! They look so yummy!!
Mmmm! These would make my step-mom so happy right now! These pumpkin cream cheese bars look to die for!
Congrats on Foodbuzz top 9!
these look so good…and what a fun baby-sitting gig!
Congrats on making Foodbuzz’s Top 9! I’m new to your blog and instantly fell in love. This is a great fall recipe right here. I am your newest follower :)
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I’m envisioning the cinnamon and spice smells warming up my kitchen in the Milwaukee already-cold. I’ve been on a pumpkin kick, and so it continues!
These look incredible! Exactly what sweet I’d love to indulge in during the fall.
xo
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I have been craving a pumpkin swirl cheesecake for awhile, but haven’t wanted to make an entire cheesecake. Now I want this and it’s less daunting to make!
Holy delicious! Autumn is my favorite time of year for everything – weather, outdoor beauty, and food! I am sure to make these!
Buzzed this for sure!
~Ivy
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Yum! I’m with you – it’s the time for pumpkins and colorful leaves and sweaters. Once the calendar hits September I’m impatient for fall to hit. Well I’ve pinned this recipe so I can come back to it when pumpkin becomes available here – I don’t think it is yet. :(
Come visit Minneapolis! But bring your fall sweater and warm smile; we have a frost warning tonight! And you’re always welcome to use my kitchen!
beautiful! I can’t let go of summer just yet plus its still 95 degrees here. I’m seeing all the beautiful fall foods coming out and I know its coming, like it or not. It’ll be nice to turn on the oven again.
These are gorgeous. Stella is adorable!cheers
Oooo, these are so delicious looking! Even though I’m not ready for summer to be over, I’m loving that I can find canned pumpkin again!
Well, it’s definitely getting to be fall in Alaska, and I am ready for pumpkin–this looks like a great way to eat it. I’m a sucker for anything with cream cheese icing.
These look super yummy and definitely speak of fall.
I’m with you, it’s still hot in Florida, but I don’t care! It’s fall in my apartment and kitchen! These pumpkin bars look SO good!
No big Kitchenaid Mixer yet-well put that on your Christmas list as a must have! These bars look tasty-I like that they are more cake like than most. Nothing says fall like pumpking and cream cheese.
Yay! I’m so excited for pumpkin recipes to start popping up on blogs. These bars look so good
Love the pumpkin recipes going around. These look amazing!! Yum!!
Oh I love pumpkin anything! These came out looking great.
That’s funny! I had the same problem last year when there was a shortage in the pumpkin crop and you couldn’t find canned pumpkin anywhere. I ended up making pumpkin puree from scratch, because crazy enough pumpkins were everywhere despite the “shortage.” But when it finally hit the shelves again, man did I stock up!
I can’t wait to try these. My 6 year loves pumpkin anything, and he will think these are great!
I love pumpkin and it is fall darn it it’s time for pumpkin treats!!!!! These will have to be a must make for me they look super yummy.
yum! i’ve been dying to bake pumpkin things :) love your blog!