Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy I Got Love In My Tummy...


In sticking with the pumpkin theme I started for myself earlier this week, I once again searched the net for a new recipe I hadn't tried. I came across this one on the Allrecipes website. It was a fairly easy recipe and let me tell you...Aside from the fact that I accidentally burned the cookie crust, these were excellent! It was like eating a pumpkin pie! I ate around the burned crust and it was just like a pumpkin pie minus the pie crust. I topped mine with a little cool whip and viola! Instant satisfaction. I cooked them for the time required, but I guess my oven is hotter than I thought it was. I really liked these bars and am definitely going to have to make them again, but this time I will have to adjust the cooking time accordingly. These are definitely a treat to tide you over until Thanksgiving when the real pumpkin pie is made. Enjoy!

Golden Pumpkin Bars

INGREDIENTS:
1 (18.25 ounce) package
yellow cake mix
1/4 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1/2 cup slivered almonds,
toasted and finely chopped
(optional)
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin 1 (14 ounce) can EAGLE
BRAND® Sweetened
Condensed Milk (NOT
evaporated milk)
1 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (325 degrees for glass dish). Reserve 1/2 cup dry cake mix.
2. In large mixing bowl, combine remaining cake mix, oil and 1 egg; beat until crumbly. Stir in nuts if desired. Press firmly on bottom of greased 13x9-inch baking pan. In same bowl, combine 1/2 cup reserved cake mix and remaining ingredients; mix well. Pour over prepared crust.
3. Bake 50 minutes or until set. Cool. Cut into bars. Garnish as desired. Store tightly covered.

Source: Allrecipes.com

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those look scrumptious...Joan made something like this for us once, but I think the cake mix was sprinkled on top or something. We loved it.c

Ziz said...

ooo these look great. I made a pumpkin gooey bar a la paula deen last thanksgiving -- so I'm now a big fan of pumpkin bars in general. :)

Anonymous said...

oh, these are making me hungry! yum! =)
they look great - (in spite of the burned edges…!) well done! =)

Lauren said...

Tis the pumpkin season! I love looking at all the layers in bars - they look great.

I really enjoy your blog, everything looks great!

Sammy said...

Good to see you back michelle! Keep those goodies coming :)

Becky said...

These pumpkin bars look ridiculously delicious. I am literally salivating.

Alla Staroseletskaya said...

I just took out of oven these incredible delicious golden pumkin bars. Thank you so much for the recipe. They are the best pumkin bars I tried so far. I have my own bilingual cooking blog www.allastar.net/blog and I will post this recipe on blog.

Unknown said...

Nifty-awesome. The only other pumpkin-pie-ish tasty treat I've found is a custard...and that's not half as exciting as bars! Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Yummo....loving your blog and your pumpkin phase