{"id":98423,"date":"2023-11-01T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T05:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestchoicebrand.com\/clearlybybestchoice\/?post_type=recipe&#038;p=98423"},"modified":"2023-10-31T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:31:13","slug":"pumpkin-bars","status":"publish","type":"recipe","link":"https:\/\/bestchoicebrand.com\/clearly\/recipes\/pumpkin-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who can say no to pumpkin and cream cheese this time of year? Combine better-for-you products with a bit of self-indulgence, and you\u2019ll end up with our delicious <strong>Pumpkin Bars<\/strong>. These sweet treats will be a hit at your next get-together. Or keep them all to yourself, we won\u2019t tell. Grab all the ingredients you need at your local store and start creating!<\/p>\n<p><strong>DIRECTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preheat the oven to 350\u00b0F.<\/p>\n<p>Grease a 10 x 15 baking sheet with Clearly by Best Choice cooking spray.<\/p>\n<p>In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate bowl, whisk together the brown sugar, oil, pumpkin pur\u00e9e, vanilla, and eggs. Stir the wet ingredients until everything is well combined.<\/p>\n<p>Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until the ingredients are just combined.<\/p>\n<p>Spoon the batter onto greased pan, spreading out until even.<\/p>\n<p>Bake for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.<\/p>\n<p>Remove the pan from the oven and let the contents cool completely in the pan. This may take 15 to 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>For the frosting, use an electric mixer to combine the ingredients. Beat together the room temperature cream cheese and butter on medium-high speed for 2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Add the vanilla and powdered sugar. Start mixer slowly so the sugar does not fly out of the bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Increase the electric mixer speed and beat the frosting until it is creamy and whipped.<\/p>\n<p>Use a spatula to frost the pumpkin bars.<\/p>\n<p>Cut the pumpkin bars into small squares and decorate with sprinkles, nuts, zest, or cinnamon, <em>if desired<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":98434,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"recipe_category":[168],"recipe_tags":[58,203,204,205,206,207,208,209],"class_list":["post-98423","recipe","type-recipe","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","recipe_category-dessert","recipe_tags-pumpkin","recipe_tags-cream-cheese","recipe_tags-cinnamon","recipe_tags-ginger","recipe_tags-nutmeg","recipe_tags-brown-sugar","recipe_tags-vanilla","recipe_tags-powdered-sugar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestchoicebrand.com\/clearly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe\/98423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestchoicebrand.com\/clearly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestchoicebrand.com\/clearly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/recipe"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestchoicebrand.com\/clearly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bestchoicebrand.com\/clearly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe\/98423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestchoicebrand.com\/clearly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestchoicebrand.com\/clearly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"recipe_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestchoicebrand.com\/clearly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe_category?post=98423"},{"taxonomy":"recipe_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestchoicebrand.com\/clearly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe_tags?post=98423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}