One of the regular features of the day at our house is snack time. We are usually good about not having sweets during the day, but in the evening we have something sweet before bedtime. Sometimes we buy packages of single serving items that can be used. Other times we bake or make something from scratch at home .
For the past several days we haven’t had anything bought or premade, and it has required some time and creativity to come up with something each evening. Tonight I finally looked in the freezer and found we still have several containers of pumpkins left over from our Halloween Jack-O-Lanterns. So I decided to try something with pumpkin. But what?
I went flipping through a recipe book, and saw a recipe for apple crisp, and considered modifying it for pumpkin. I also saw a pumpkin pie recipe — but pumpkin pie isn’t real popular with some members of the family. Then something flashed in my memory and I looked up pumpkin bars. I’d never made them before, but they seemed the most likely — and the cooking time was half that of a pie anyway.
So I thawed the frozen pumpkin, mixed it up, and stuck it in the oven, then started making the cream cheese frosting the recipe called for. All that was ready when it came out, but then it had to cool before we could frost. So we just now got to trying the bars. One member of the family still didn’t like them — apparently pumpkin of any form is anathema. But with this size recipe I have bars available for several nights snack.
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