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Carrot Pumpkin Bars

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Carrot Pumpkin Bars

  • Servings: 24 bars
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These are a great early fall treat when you start craving pumpkin

Pumpkin Mix Ingredients

  • 2 c flour
  • 1 t Five Spice (or pumpkin pie spice, or cinnamon, or whatever “baking spices” you happen to have)
  • 2 t baking powder
  • 1 t baking soda
  • 1/3 c butter, softened
  • 1 c white sugar
  • 1/2 c brown sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 can (15 oz) pumpkin
  • I c shredded carrots

Cream Cheese Mix Ingredients

  • 4 oz cream cheese
  • 1/4 c white sugar
  • 1 T milk

Directions

Mix flour, spice, baking powder, and baking soda; set aside. Cream butter and sugars until crumbly. Add eggs, pumpkin, and carrots and mix until well combined. (Note: it will look really gross at this point. Keep going.) Add flour mixture and mix until combined. Pour into greased 15×10 jelly roll pan.

Mix cream cheese mix ingredients until smooth. Spoon over pumpkin mix and swirl.

Bake at 350F for about 30min, or until a toothpick in the center comes out clean.



A note: 4 oz of cream cheese is half a package, which is frustrating. When I make this, I double all the ingredients for the cream cheese mix, and freeze half of it for next time.