Pumpkin Spice Bars
 
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Difficulty: Easy
Serves: 9X13 inch pan
Ingredients
  • 2¼ cups flour
  • 1.5 tsp pumpkin pie spice
  • 1.5 cups rolled oats (we like a combo of ¾ cup "old fashioned" oats and ¾ cup "quick" oats)
  • 1 cup confectioners' sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt.
  • 3 sticks softened butter
  • 1.5 cups pumpkin butter (1.5 jars if you get yours at Trader Joe's)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Mix the flour with the pumpkin pie spice, then add the oats, confectioners' sugar, baking powder and salt.
  3. Work in the butter with your fingers until large clumps form.
  4. Line 9x13 pan with parchment and allow it to overhang so you can pull the bars out when cooled.
  5. Press three-quarters of the dough into the pan.
  6. Spread with the pumpkin butter.
  7. Crumble the remaining dough over the top.
  8. Bake until lightly browned, start checking at 30 minutes. We find that these are perfect when we turn off the oven after 30 minutes of baking, then let them remain in the oven for about 10 more minutes while the oven cools down.
Recipe by The Amiable Cooks at https://theamiablecooks.com/pumpkin-spice-bars/