Family Favorite Pumpkin Bars: Cream Cheese and Streusel Topping

If this Family Favorite Pumpkin Bars recipe
with cream cheese, ginger snap crust and streusel topping
doesn’t go on your list of annual Fall desserts,
it won’t be for lack of delicious ingredients. 

We promise you will not be able to resist making these a few times every fall,

they are simply that good.

And we have a lot of good pumpkin desserts on this blog.

Fall seems to be the season we feel inspired to whip us up some pumpkin desserts

so we’ve got quite a collection already:

 

The Best Ever Pumpkin Desserts For Thanksgiving Dinner
Pumpkin Ice Cream Dessert With Praline Pecans
Pumpkin Spice Cinnamon Rolls
Cream Cheese Swirl Pumpkin Quick Bread Recipe

 

 

 

But this one, this recipe today,

with all its yummy ingredients,

this one is destined to be your…

 

Family Favorite Pumpkin Bars 

Ingredients:

Cookie Base:

• • 1 pound 1.5 oz pouch Betty Crocker oatmeal cookie mix
  • 1/2 cup crushed gingersnap cookies
  • 1/2 cup chopped pecans
  • 1/2 cup cold butter

Filling:

• • 16 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup pure pumpkin
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 2 tablespoons whipping cream
  • 2 eggs

Topping:

• • caramel ice cream topping

 

Instructions:

Cookie Base:

• 1. Heat oven to 350°
  2. Stir together the cookie mix, crushed gingersnaps and pecans.
  3. Shred the cold butter into the ingredients and incorporate. Mix until crumbly.
  4. Save 1 cup of the mixture aside, and press the rest into the bottom of a 9″x13″ pan.
  5. Bake 10 minutes, cool 10 minutes.

Filling:

• 1. Beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth.
  2. Mix in the rest of the filling ingredients until blended.
  3. Pour over cookie base and spread evenly.
  4. Top with reserved crumbs.
  5. Bake 35 to 40 minutes, or until filling is set. Cool an hour, then keep refrigerated.

Topping:

• 1. Cut into bars and serve with caramel ice cream topping.

 

 

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