Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Whole Grain Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

OMG....I can't tell you how delicious these sweet treats are. If you like pumpkin, you will absolutely love this dish. If not, I just don't know what to tell you. I had some fresh pumpkin I needed to use that was leftover from making some pumpkin oatmeal this past weekend, so I decided to bake last night. So far everyone that has had them said they taste great. I only made a few changes to the original recipe. One major change is that I used white whole wheat flour, to incorporate some whole grains, rather than all purpose flour. I also used light stick margarine instead of regular.

Whole Grain Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Serves 12 large bars or roughly 24 smaller bars
Adapted from: http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/pumpkin-chocolate-chip-bars/

Ingredients:
2 cups White whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon McCormick pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup or 2 sticks light stick margarine, at room temperature
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 large egg or 1/4 cup eggbeaters (i used a real egg)
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 cup canned pure pumpkin
1 package or 12 oz semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:
-Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
-Grease or spray nonstick cooking spray in a 13 x 9 baking pan and set aside.
-In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
-In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar on medium high speed with an electric mixer until smooth.
-Add in the egg and vanilla and mix until combined with the sugar and butter.
-Add the pumpkin and mix well. The mixture might look a little funny or like it is curdled, but this is okay.
-Reduce the speed to low on the electric mixer and slowly incorporate the dry ingredients a little at a time into the large bowl of wet ingredients.
-Once the entire mixture is combined well, gently stir in the chocolate chip morsels.
-Spread the batter evenly in the 13 x 9 baking dish.
-Bake 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. (my oven took 38 minutes to cook these)
-Cool the bars completely before cutting into squares.
-serve or cover dish and serve at a later time

Enjoy! :)

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