It’s PUMPKIN month, y’all!! We are going to start this with an easy-to-whip-up recipe yet delicious, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bars!! When you bake this, your house will smell like fall!!
Now that Halloween is done and pumpkins are on sale, why not make pumpkin desserts? This Pumpkin Chocolate Chip bar is very easy to make that you can even make this for breakfast. That way, your family will wake up to the smell of delicious pumpkin pie spice. It really smells like pumpkin pie. Mmmmmm …… The smell of fall….
Besides the usual ingredients (Butter, sugar, flour, egg, baking soda, salt and vanilla extract), this recipe uses two special ingredients. Pumpkin puree and Pumpkin pie spice. For the pumpkin puree to use in the recipe, you can make your own or in my case I used the canned puree. Ready at any time of the year. For the pumpkin pie spice, you can also make your own or you can buy the pumpkin pie spice that is already made in the spice aisle. It is really easy to make and you only need 5 ingredients which are ground cinnamon, ground ginger, nutmeg, ground allspice, and ground clove. Now, if you bake or cook with those spices often, it would be easy to make your own pumpkin pie spice. However, I find that if I don’t use those spices often, the spices will just sit in my cabinet and not get a lot of use. That’s why I like the pumpkin pie spice that is already made so that no spices will go to waste. 🙂
I don’t know about you but I love when a recipe starts with “Cream butter and sugar”!!! It makes me smile because I know it’s going to be good!!
When you cream butter and sugar, there are 2 ways of doing it. You can cream the butter first and then add the sugar or you can cream both together. I find that this recipe can do both as long as you whip it really good and scrape the sides often.
Once you add the egg and vanilla, you will add the pumpkin puree. Yay for pumpkin!! Mix again until all the pumpkin puree and completely mixed together with the butter mixture.
Turn your mixer to low speed and gently add the dry mixture into your stand mixer and mix until everything comes together. Don’t forget to scrape the sides.
Now this next step is the step that makes my son happy. You can guess it. Adding the chocolate chips!! The dude loves chocolate chips and pumpkin so this is totally one of his favorite treats! I like using mini chocolate chips so I don’t feel so guilty about giving them chocolate chips 😛 Fold it with your spatula until everything is every mixed.
Put the batch into a well-greased 13×9 baking pan. You want to gently push the batter into the side and even out the surface of the bar.
After 30 minutes, your house will smell like fall and you will have this beautiful, golden delicious, soft Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bars. But wait!! Let it cool for about 10 minutes before you slice into it. And then your family will thank you!!
Tips for baking this Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bars:
- The only tip is to wait for 10 minutes before you cut into the bar!! A really easy recipe!
Happy Baking!!!
| Prep Time | 10 minutes |
| Cook Time | 30 minutess |
| Servings |
12 bars
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- 2 cups flour
- 1 tbsp pumpkin spice
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
- 1 cups mini chocolate chips
Ingredients
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- Preheat oven to 325 degrees fahrenheit. Spray 13x9 pan with cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, pumpkin spice, baking soda and salt. This is the dry mixture.
- In a stand mixer, beat together butter and sugar, until light and fluffy, for about 3 minutes.
- Add eggs and vanilla and mix again. Add the pumpkin and beat again.
- Slowly add the dry mixture to the wet. Take off the stand mixer.
- Add the chocolate chip and fold with a spatula. Pour the batter into the pan.
- Bake for 28-30 minutes. Check doneness by inserting toothpick in the middle of the pan.
- Cool for 10 minutes before cutting.
Adapted from : Mom Endeavors
