Jane’s Pumpkin Bars

By Addie

These decadent bars are moist, delicious and topped off with heavenly, creamy, velvety, whipped maple cream cheese frosting.

Ingredients

• Granulated Sugar - 1/3 cup
• Canola Oil - 1/3 cup
• Eggs - 3
• Pumpkin - 1 15-oz can
• Yellow Cake Mix - 1 box (18.25 Oz)
• Pumpkin Pie Spice - 3 teaspoons
• Cream Cheese, softened - 12 ounces
• Unsalted Butter, Softened - 2 sticks
• Confectioner's Sugar - 2 cups
• Pure Maple Syrup - 1/4 cup

Preparation

Step 1

CAKE:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9×13 cake pan or 15×10 jelly roll. In a large bowl, combine sugar, oil, eggs and pumpkin. Beat together on low until combined. Add cake mix and spice and mix on medium high for 2 minutes. Pour into a greased pan and bake for 25-35 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool completely.

FROSTING:

Mix cream cheese and butter together until creamy. Add powdered sugar and maple syrup, whipping on low until moist then whipping on high for a couple minutes. Frost and cut into bars. Store in the refrigerator.