Penzey's Pumpkin Bars With Brown Butter Icing
"recipe from the most recent Penzey's catalog. Haven't made yet, but will soon. Both my boys love pumpkin desserts and this sounds great."
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
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18-24
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup soft butter
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs, room temp if you can
- 2⁄3 cup canned pumpkin
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄4 teaspoon powdered ginger
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
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icing
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons milk
directions
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For bars:
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Cream butter.
- Add brown sugar, eggs, pumpkin, and vanilla; mix well.
- In separate bowl, sift all of dry ingredients together.
- Gradually add to the wet mixture and mix well.
- Pour into a greased 9x-inch13 pan and bake for 15-20 minutes.
- Let cool then top with brown butter icing.
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Icing directions:
- In a heavy bottomed pan, heat butter over low heat until it is a light brown color.
- Remove from heat and add powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk.
- Whisk until smooth and well blended.
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Reviews
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Delicious and moist! These bars melt in your mouth! Love it, make a quadruple batch, turned out amazing. ONLY, I made some brown butter CREAM CHEESE icing, instead. Turned out wonderfully. Thanks for sharing. This is a keeper. -
Picked this recipe up at Penzey's and have made them numerous times. Everyone loves them! Browning butter for the frosting gives the bars a wonderful flavor. As written, the frosting will be difficult to work with, not very spreadable, more like a fondant. I think it would be more effective to cool the butter to room temperature, then beat in the other frosting ingedients. I prefer the bars as is, but made a note on my recipe card for a less sweet version to try halving the icing and thinning with milk to make more of a glaze or drizzle. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
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Part time office worker, full time servant to 2 growing boys, and 1 wonderful husband! I work for my husband so i quess you could say i'm sleeping with my boss! I love to eat. While i'm eating 1 meal, i'm thinking about what i want to eat at the next meal. I could just live on sweets, and take a pill for all my vitamins, and nutrition. I have no strong passions other than being quite lazy. I strive to be more physically active, but that usually requires me to move. I quess i would rather die happy and slightly overweight, than skinny and hungry.
