Recipe: Pumpkin Squares

Pumpkin Squares

Honestly, I don't know why I didn't post this recipe sooner, because I make 'em every time I start seeing pumpkins popping up in stores. I guess it's kind of like a traditional thing now, like how people bake a bunch of cookies for Christmas. Except for me, I make pumpkin squares in October.

Basically, pumpkin squares are just pumpkin muffins baked in a square pan. This particular one is a bit plain because we didn't have any chocolate chips on hand. I might drizzle it on top if I ever get my hands on a bar.

And I know the picture doesn't really show it justice, with the clutter, and it still being in the pan (silicon ftw), and how it's already been nommed on, and just the whole fact that it could be anything tucked in there... Oh well, I guess you just have to trust me on this one. I draw, I don't take photos.

I used to take a lot of cooking classes offered in the community center when I was a kid, and that's where I got this recipe from. I think the class was a weekly baking class or what not. I was still elementary then, and I've been making this recipe ever since. However, my mom praised me for this particular batch of squares, calling it the "best one I've ever made", even though I really don't think I made it all that differently than from a year or two ago.

Pumpkin Squares

•  1/2 butter (you could probably sub it with yogurt, I just didn't have any on hand)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2 cup pumpkin filling
• 2 1/4 cup flour
• 2 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 1 cup chocolate chips

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
2. Cream the butter (if using), then mix in the sugars until evenly combined. Beat in the eggs ("until fluffy," as quoted by the recipe). Afterwards, add the pumpkin filling.
3. Add the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg into the batter and mix until all the dry ingredients are moist. (Refer to muffin method.) Add the chocolate chips.
4. Pour into a square pan and bake for 40 - 50 minutes (even though I ended up leaving it in the oven for an hour and a half... ick) or until a knife comes clean.

Anyways, I won't make you have to put up with more of my 3:00 AM crappy writing so bye bye.