Harvest Pumpkin Browniesbars Food

HARVEST PUMPKIN COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and all spice in medium bowl.
• Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Beat in pumpkin, egg and vanilla.
• Gradually add flour mixture.
• Beat at low speed until well blended, stir in chopped pecans and cranberries with spoon.
• Drop heaping tablespoonsfuls of dough 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
• Flatten slightly with back of spoon, and press one pecan half into center of each cookie.
• Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
• Let cookies stand on cookie sheets 1 minute; transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
• Store tightly covered at room temperature or you can freeze up to 3 months.

HARVEST PUMPKIN-SPICE BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F
• Lightly grease bottom and sides of 15x10x1 inch pan (glass is best) with shortening.
• In large bowl, beat eggs, granulated sugar, oil and pumpkin until smooth.
• Stir in flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, ginger and cloves.
• Stir in chocolate chips, spread in pan.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until light brown.
• Cool completely in pan on cooling rack, about 2 hours.
• In medium bowl, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla with electric mixer on low speed until smooth.
• Gradually beat in powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, on low speed until smooth and spreadable.
• Spread frosting over bars.
• Sprinkle with walnuts.
• For bars, cut into 7 rows by 7 rows.
• Store in refrigerator.
• Tastes better the day after!

PUMPKIN BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Line a 13x9-in. baking pan with parchment, letting ends extend up sides; grease paper. In a large bowl, whisk sugar, flour, cocoa, salt and baking soda. In a small bowl, whisk oil, eggs and vanilla; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. , For pumpkin batter, in a large bowl, combine sugar, flour, salt, pumpkin pie spice and baking soda. In a small bowl, whisk pumpkin and eggs; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Spread half the cocoa mixture into prepared pan (layer will be thin). Drop half the pumpkin mixture by tablespoonfuls over top; gently spread to cover most of brownie mixture. Drop remaining pumpkin and cocoa mixtures by tablespoonfuls over pumpkin layer. Gently spread and swirl. , Bake until a toothpick comes out clean, 25-30 minutes. Cool in pan on a wire rack. Lifting with parchment, remove from pan. Cut into bars.

PUMPKIN BROWNIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8x8 inch baking pan. Stir the flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.
• In another bowl, stir together the melted butter, sugar, and vanilla extract; beat in the eggs one at a time with a spoon. Gradually add the flour mixture, and stir the batter until it's evenly moistened. Divide the batter in half in two separate bowls.
• Into one bowl of batter, blend the cocoa powder and chocolate chips. In the second bowl of batter, stir in the pumpkin puree, walnuts, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.
• Spread 1/2 of the chocolate batter into the bottom of the prepared baking pan, and follow with 1/2 of the pumpkin batter. Repeat the layers, ending with a pumpkin layer, and drag a kitchen knife or small spatula gently through the layers in a swirling motion, to create a marbled appearance.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the brownies begin to pull away from the sides of the pan, and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Cool in the pan, cut into squares, and serve.