PUMPKIN SQUARES

By johandi

These are very moist. It is almost like eating pumpkin pie out of your hand

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter or margarine
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 2 eggs
• 14 oz canned pumpkin
• 1 cup flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp ginger
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt

Preparation

Step 1

1. Cream butter and sugar together.
2. Beat in sugar, then eggs 1 at a time.
3. Slowly beat in pumpkin.
4. Add remaining ingredients. Stir.
5. Scrape into greased 9 x 13 inch pan
6. Bake in 350 F oven for about 25 minutes until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
7. Cool then frost with Cream Cheese Icing.

Cream Cheese Icing:
4 oz Cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups Icing (confectoner's) sugar

Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla until smooth. Beat in icing sugar, a little at a time. Spread over Pumpkin Squares.
Chill and cut into 54 moist squares.