Thanksgiving Pumpkin Blondies

Name: Thanksgiving Pumpkin Blondies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 16 bars, 16 serving(s)
Ingredients: 6 tablespoons vegetable oil; 1/3 cup dark molasses; 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed; 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 2 teaspoons butter; 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour; 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour; 1/4 teaspoon baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger; 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed; 1/4 cup granulated sugar; 6 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled; 1 large egg, lightly beaten; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 1 cup canned pumpkin, packed; 3/4 cup milk chocolate chips (add about 1/2 tsp sugar if you use semi-sweet)

Submitted by the_cookie_lady

"From The Best 50 collection of cookbooks. This is straight out of the Brownies and Blondies edition. A little of this goes a LONG way! Not really a blondie by my standards, but it passes off as an interesting bar-type dessert. PLEASE NOTE: Because most people are not really used to tasting molasses, it may take a few bites to fall in love with this recipe. I did not like it at all when I first tried it. But, after giving it a second bite, I found I can't get enough of it. This seemed to happen with EVERYONE who tried it. So, please, before giving an unhappy review, try it again. If you find that the molasses is just too much to handle, try cutting the topping ingredients in half. It really does make a lot of topping as it is. I hope you enjoy this!"

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Ready In:: 45mins
Ingredients:: 18
Yields:: 16 bars
Serves:: 16

ingredients

TOPPING
6 tablespoons vegetable oil
¹⁄₃ cup dark molasses
¹⁄₂ cup light brown sugar, packed
1 ¹⁄₂ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
BLONDIES
2 teaspoons butter
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 ¹⁄₄ cups all-purpose flour
¹⁄₄ teaspoon baking powder
¹⁄₄ teaspoon salt
³⁄₄ teaspoon ground ginger
¹⁄₂ cup light brown sugar, packed
¹⁄₄ cup granulated sugar
6 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup canned pumpkin, packed
³⁄₄ cup milk chocolate chips (add about 1/2 tsp sugar if you use semi-sweet)

directions

Prepare crumb topping: In medium bowl, combine topping ingredients with fingers or pastry blender until well blended; continue until a soft dough forms. Cover and set aside.
Prepare baking pan: Heat oven to 350 degrees farenheit. Grease an 8-inch square baking pan with 2 tsp of butter. Dust with 1 Tbsp flour. Tap out excess flour.
Prepare blondies: With a fork, thoroughly mix together 1 1/4 cups flour, baking powder, salt, ground ginger, and sugars in medium bowl.
Stir in melted butter, egg, vanilla extract, and pumpkin until well blended and smooth.
Stir in chocolate chips just until blended.
Spread pumpkin batter evenly in pan.
Finishing: With your fingers, break off dime-sized pieces of molasses mixture. Sprinkle evenly over the top of the pumpkin batter.
Bake in center of oven for 25 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean with a few moist crumbs (not wet batter).
Cool thoroughly in the pan on a wire rack for about 1 hour. Cut into 16 equal bars and remove from pan. Enjoy!

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I left out the chocolote chips. I made half the amount of topping and it was plenty. While these were tasty, they came out gummy and didn't rise because there wasn't enough baking powder. If you make this recipe, try 1 teaspoon baking powder and let us know if that does the trick!

StickyToffee

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the_cookie_lady

***09-02-2007 UPDATE*** I will soon be moving again. Finally, I will be out on my own. Just imagine what culinary adventures I will embark on then! I also have been admitted into the baking program at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California and am also attending my first semester at California State University, Fullerton. I have two years left before I can get my BA in English and one more year following that before I have my teaching credentials. Then I will be off to teach high school English while I wait to gather the needed money and experience to open my own dream bakery! ***02-08-2007 UPDATE*** I went out looking for a job and, on the first application I turned in, the lady interviewed me right on the spot and gave me the job. I am now an ICING MAKER!!!! I make the icing for the cookie bouquets that can be found on www.cookiesbydesign.com . She has also since taught me to bake the cookies, as well as how to process the sales and assembly of the cookie bouquets. All I have left to learn is how to decorate them (although I have already done some lettering on the message cookies). ***02-02-2007 UPDATE*** I now live with one of my good friends from back in high school. Her family offered to help me out by letting me live with them while I attend college down in Southern California. I just transfered down here with intent to start at the California State University of Fullerton in the fall. Getting a computer to work around here is a toughie, so I won't be able to post or message as often as I was when I lived with my grandparents. I'll do my best, though! I LOVE to bake! I would really like to have a bakery someday. I don't get to try out as many recipes as I used to now that I live with a friend from high school and her family. Food Network is about the only TV I watch anymore and I have a growing cookbook collection. Cooking is my comfort and, surprisingly enough, I've found that I eat FAR less when I make it myself. Thats TWO great benefits! I seem to have a little obsession, though, with collecting cookbooks. I guess it is getting pretty bad when I have to sneak new cookbooks into the house and hide them in the towel closet in my bathroom so my grandma doesn't see them and tell me I'm crazy for bringing another cookbook home. I buy all my cookbooks at thrift stores, garage sales, library sales, etc. I especially love old cookbooks and cookbooks from church, school, or charity groups. A lot of the recipes I submit are recipes from my many cookbooks that I haven't tried yet. Since most of my cookbooks are in storage right now, I need to get rid of as many of these cookbooks as I can. I plan to save the recipes I want before donating the cookbooks back to the library. My obligatory chunkett (that's probably not a word, but I use it ALL the time) about my other half because I love him so much: My boyfriend now lives about 20 minutes away from me since I moved back down to Southern California. Before my move, we were about 5-6 hours apart (I still can't believe we went through that for over a year!). We have been friends for years but lost touch during the 4 years that he went to college. He graduated June 2005 and we got back in touch that July. We have been dating since December 2, 2005 and are a pretty idyllic match thus far. He is one of my best friends. He gave me a promise ring 4-8-06 and we do plan to get married. The only thing holding us back is my dad's single wish that I graduate college before I get married. This is the only guy he has ever liked that I have dated, so I figure a few more years isn't that long to wait. Life would be so very different if something happened and he were to be taken away from me..... Anyway, onward ho! Gosh, I love food!

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