Pumpkin Pie Bars

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 1 1/3 cups flour
• 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 3/4 cup sugar, divided
• 3/4 cup cold butter or 3/4 cup margarine
• 1 cup old fashioned oats or 1 cup quick-cooking oats, uncooked
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 3 eggs
• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin
• 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f
• 2 line 13x9-inch baking pan with foil, overlapping the sides of the pan with foil to allow easy removal of the bars later. grease foil lining.
• 3 mix flour, brown sugar and 1/4 cup of the sugar.
• 4 cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• 5 stir in oats and pecans. reserve 1 cup of the oat mixture.
• 6 press remaining mixture onto bottom of pan. bake 15 minute.
• 7 beat cream cheese, remaining 1/2 cup sugar, eggs, pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice until well blended.
• 8 pour over crust; sprinkle with reserved crumb mixture.
• 9 bake 25 minute
• 10 lift from pan using foil handles; cool completely.