28 Delicious Pumpkin Recipes – Featuring Praline Pumpkin Pie Bars
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Praline Pumpkin Pie Bars are a delicious three layer dessert. These dessert bars have all the elements of traditional pumpkin pie with an added brown sugar praline crunch on top. This recipe is straight from our Grandma’s wooden recipe box.
Pumpkin recipes – followed closely by soups – are our favorite to create, share and, of course, eat! You can just do SO much with pumpkin. From pancakes and waffles to pumpkin spice lattes and pumpkin butter, pumpkin can be the star of so many dishes.
Praline Pumpkin Pie Bars Recipe
Diving into our Grandma’s beloved wooden recipe box is one of our favorite ways to find inspiration for recipes. We love to share them not only here on our blog but with our family and friends. Barbara found this pumpkin bar recipe in our beloved recipe box. Once she made it, we knew we had to share it with the world!
How to Make Praline Pumpkin Pie Bars:
Instructions:
- First Layer: Mix flour, quick oats, brown sugar and butter until crumbly; press into a 13 x 9 inch baking dish and bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees F.
- Second Layer: Combine pumpkin, evaporated milk, eggs, sugar, salt, ginger (or nutmeg), cinnamon and cloves; pour over hot crust, and bake for an additional 20 minutes.
- Third Layer: Mix chopped nuts, brown sugar and butter; sprinkle over hot filling. Bake for an additional 15 to 20 minutes or until set.
For the full recipe for pumpkin pie squares, scroll to the bottom of this post.Â
Notes About Praline Pumpkin Pie Squares:
- Be sure to use canned pumpkin not canned pumpkin pie filling. There is a big difference.
- To lighten up the recipe, try fat free evaporated milk.
- Swap ground ginger with ground nutmeg if desired.
- Chopped pecans or chopped walnuts can be used for the praline topping.
- This easy pumpkin pie bar recipe uses a 3 step cooking process. Each layer is baked before the next layer is added and then returned to the oven.
- Pumpkin recipes are our jam! Check out 27 more pumpkin recipes after the recipe card.
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Praline Pumpkin Pie Bars
Ingredients
Bottom Layer
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup quick cooking oats
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
Middle Layer
- 15 ounces canned pumpkin
- 12 ounces evaporated milk
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger or nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
Top Layer
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts)
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 Tablespoons butter, softened
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Using your hands (or mixer), combine flour, oats, brown sugar, and butter until crumbly; press into the bottom of a 13x9 inch baking dish. Bake for 15 mins.
- Combine and beat well the following: pumpkin, evaporated milk, eggs, sugar, salt, nutmeg (or ginger), cinnamon, and cloves. Pour over hot crust, and return to oven for an additional 20 minutes.
- With your hands, combine nuts, brown sugar and softened butter. Sprinkle over filling and return to the oven for an additional 15 to 20 minutes or until set.
- Cool in pan, and cut into bars or squares. Serve with whipped cream or Cool Whip.
Notes
- Be sure to use canned pumpkin not canned pumpkin pie. There is a big difference.
- To lighten up the recipe, try fat free evaporated milk. Â
- Swap ground ginger with ground nutmeg if desired.
- Chopped pecans or chopped walnuts can be used for the praline topping.Â
- This easy pumpkin pie bar recipe uses a 3 step cooking process; each layer is baked before the next layer is added and then returned to the oven.
28 Delicious Pumpkin Recipes
Pumpkin is the star of many Fall recipes. Once temperatures start to cool and leaves start to turn, everyone’s thoughts turn to the orange-yellow fruit (yes, it is a fruit) called the pumpkin! We are considering starting a petition to make pumpkin a year-round star but that is for another day!
Today, we are sharing some of our favorite pumpkin recipes below for a one-stop shop for all things pumpkin. We have even built a Pinterest board to help keep all our favorite pumpkin recipes organized!
You can’t get any more classic than the pumpkin pie but even this beloved dessert has several different versions!
Pumpkin Pies
Crock Pot Crustless Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Cakes and Cupcakes
Cakes and cupcakes are perfect dessert options when you are looking to feed a crowd so we definitely wanted to share some great pumpkin cupcake and sheet cakes!
Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
Slow Cooker Pumpkin Apple Cinnamon Cake
Pumpkin Breakfast Dishes – Muffins, Pancakes and Waffles
You many not think of pumpkin for breakfast but you are missing out if you don’t consider adding it to muffins, pancakes, waffles and so much more.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
Slow Cooker Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Pumpkin Waffles with a Hint of Cinnamon
Flourless Pumpkin Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blender Muffins
Pumpkin Spice Pull Apart Bread
Mama Griggs’s Pumpkin Bran Muffins
Pumpkin Cookies
Cookies are always welcome at pitch-ins, family holidays or for after school snacks. These soft, often iced, pumpkin cookies will become favorites with a big glass of milk or hot cup of coffee.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies with Brown Sugar Icing
Pumpkin Frozen & No-Bake Desserts
Since pumpkin is thought of as “only a fall ingredient”, you might not think about using it in a frozen or no-bake dessert. We love both of these easy cold desserts featuring pumpkin.
Pumpkin Robert Redford Dessert
Other Favorite Pumpkin Recipes
We just couldn’t leave out these last 3 recipes because they are SO good! Admittedly, the last one isn’t “pumpkin” but it’s definitely a traditional fall dish that is always a crowd favorite.
Slow Cooker Pumpkin Pie Pudding
Do you have a favorite pumpkin recipe? We’d love for you to share it with us in the comments below!
