Pumpkin Squares and Cream Cheese Frosting

Here is a great pumpkin square recipe with homemade cream cheese frosting. The fall dessert to serve up for your friends and family this season. A cookie-like pumpkin square that has that pumpkin spice flavor to make your heart swoon.

We are a huge fan of pumpkin, whether it is a sweet dessert or savory option. We always try to keep our hands on a few cans of canned pumpkin, for recipes just like this. We personally don’t box pumpkin in just for the fall season, we eat it all year round. Now, we will say when the weather gets chilly we do allow that to be a good excuse to make all the tasty pumpkin desserts our heart desires.

Other Recipes To Consider

• Pumpkin Cheesecake
• Pecan Pie Muffins
• Peanut Butter Blondies

The Best Pumpkin Squares

This pumpkin squares recipe is easy to make and is homemade. We love a good homemade dessert, as you get that tasty dessert just like your grandma used to make!

Pumpkin bars from scratch are a must for us, we don’t love the boxed mixes you can find. We find they taste a little bit too processed for us. Now, we never turn down using a cake mix for quick fixes, as we like to cut corners here and there. But, some things just need to be homemade and for us, homemade pumpkin bars are one of them.

How Do You Make Pumpkin Bars

Ingredients for Pumpkin Square

• 1 9×13 parchment paper lined a baking dish
• 1 C unsalted butter (softened)
• 2 large eggs, room temperature
• 1 1/4 C sugar
• 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 1 C canned pumpkin puree
• 3 1/4 C flour
• 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt

Cream cheese frosting ingredients

• 1 8 oz package of cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 C unsalted butter (softened)
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 1/2 C powder sugar
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• Fall Sprinkles

Directions for Pumpkin Squares

1. Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking dish with parchment paper.
2. Then in a stand mixer cream your butter, sugar until light and creamy.
3. Add in your eggs, one at a time, pumpkin puree, and vanilla extract.
4. Then in a large bowl, add in your flour, pumpkin spire, baking powder, and salt, whisk and sit aside.
5. Then as you are slowly blending your mixture, work in your dry flour mix.
6. Pour batter into the pan, and bake for 20 minutes.
7. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a cooling rack.
8. Once your pumpkin bars are cooled, start making your frosting.
9. Cream together butter, vanilla, and cream cheese until blended.
10. Add in your powdered sugar and cinnamon and mix until light and fluffy.
11. Spread frosting on cooled pumpkin bars, and then sprinkle with your sprinkles.

Ingredients

Makes 24 bars

• 1 9 x13 parchment paper lined a baking dish
• 1 C unsalted butter, softened
• 2 large eggs, room temperature
• 1 1/4 C sugar
• 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 1 C canned pumpkin puree
• 3 1/4 C flour
• 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt

Frosting

• 1 8 oz package of cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 C unsalted butter, softened
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 1/2 C powder sugar
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• Fall Sprinkles

Method

1. Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking dish with parchment paper.
2. Then in a stand mixer cream your butter, sugar until light and creamy.
3. Add in your eggs, one at a time, pumpkin puree, and vanilla extract.
4. Then in a large bowl, add in your flour, pumpkin spire, baking powder, and salt, whisk and sit aside.
5. Then as you are slowly blending your mixture, work in your dry flour mix.
6. Pour batter into the pan, and bake for 20 minutes.
7. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a cooling rack.
8. Once your pumpkin bars are cooled, start making your frosting.
9. Cream together butter, vanilla, and cream cheese until blended.
10. Add in your powdered sugar and cinnamon and mix until light and fluffy.
11. Spread frosting on cooled pumpkin bars, and then sprinkle with your sprinkles.