Heavenly Pumpkin Brownies
Written by whoorl · Filed Under happy happy joy joy, photos
Make these NOW, but don’t eat half the pan or you’ll feel a little sick. Trust me.
Heavenly Pumpkin Brownies
4 large eggs
2 cups sugar
1 cup butter, melted
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Frosting:
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
1. In a large mixing bowl of an electric mixer, beat the eggs well, add in the sugar and butter and mix well. Add the pumpkin and vanilla and mix. Add the flour and spices and mix well. Spread in a 9 X 13-inch greased pan.
2. Bake for 25-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cool.
3. To make frosting: In a small bowl, beat cream cheese, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar until just mixed, careful not to over mix.
When the brownies are cool, frost. (I only needed to use about 1/2 of the frosting.) You can sprinkle chopped nuts on top of the brownies, if desired. Cut into squares and serve. Enjoy.
Beth B
September 29th, 2009 6:27 amWow and YUM! totally making these.
C @ Kid Things
September 29th, 2009 6:53 amJust the frosting alone is making my mouth water. Mmmm… cream cheese…
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Jora
September 29th, 2009 7:25 amOh, I am so happy you decided to post this recipe. I just need to get the cream cheese and I’m set.
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lucy
September 29th, 2009 7:43 amoh dern you. that looks so good. now I have to stop by the grocery store on the way home, so I can make this tonight… my husband will be eternally grateful that you posted this today. he told me yesterday that he was craving fall desserts. thanks for saving me from the cookbooks.
Mama in the City
September 29th, 2009 10:24 amYum! Enough to send me into a diabetic coma. Looks wonderful.
Darcey
September 29th, 2009 10:59 amOMG, these are almost the exact recipe I use! I think I’ll have to whip up a batch over the weekend – the first thing to cook in my new house!
PS – If you swap out the vanilla extract in the frosting for maple extract, it takes it to a whole NEW (divine) level. :)
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anne
September 29th, 2009 11:13 amBookmarked! I love autumn simply because of all the pumpkin-spiced goodness!
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Ninotchka
September 29th, 2009 3:19 pmYay! Thanks for posting the recipe.
ali
September 29th, 2009 5:17 pmum, i kind of hate you and love you at the same time.
these look AMAZING.
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andrea
September 29th, 2009 8:26 pmIf I hadn’t just pulled an apple crisp out of the oven I’d make them right now. I guess I’ll just have to eat this quickly so I can move onto the brownies ; ) I love fall!
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Geminigirl
September 30th, 2009 8:57 amomg omg. my tunny will love you, my ass will not.
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Sarah
September 30th, 2009 4:52 pmHoly mother of god…and with all my fall events this month, GET READY!!
Sarah
September 30th, 2009 6:00 pmShe knows of what she speaks.
These. Are. Awesome.
I did a little taste test, though. I topped some bars with a dusting of powdered sugar. (Okay, it was a heavy dusting.) Delicious, and travels well.
I also topped some with a honey-mascarpone frosting.
Honey Mascarpone Frosting
Recipe by Giada DeLaurentiis
3 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
1/3 cup mascarpone cheese, room temperature
3 tablespoons honey
Mix all ingredients with a hand mixer, or using the whisk attachment on your stand mixer. It’s a soft frosting, and a bit less sweet than the vanilla-cream cheese-butter-sugar frosting in the original. It’s also great on banana bread. (Trust me, it’s worth buying the snooty cheese!)
Thanks, Whoorl! (now? I’m going to eat too many pumpkin bars while I watch Glee. Stomach ache be damned.)
Stacie
October 1st, 2009 9:11 amAh, Relish, right!? Just joined based on your recommendation and I LOVE it already! I do have a lot of technical questions… like, can you assemble a weekly meal plan from “favorites” or do you have to choose from the current weekly selections? Do they have a “help” section?? Overall, great site, though! Having the Broiled Flank Steak and Goat Cheese on a Bed of Mixed Greens for dinner tonight! Pumpkin brownies are on the agenda for the weekend!
the southern hostess
October 2nd, 2009 3:48 pmThese look amazing!
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Katelar
October 2nd, 2009 7:11 pmI just made these, and while I’m saving them for an event tomorrow, they turned out really well! I halved the frosting and it was the perfect amount. I also added a pinch of Pumpkin Pie Spice to the frosting and it’s really yummy! Thanks so much for the recipe.
Janet
October 3rd, 2009 7:31 pmI made these with home grown sugar pumpkin (from my garden) but they didn’t come out right even though I followed the recipe. They came out more like pumpkin cake. It ws really good but cannot figure out why it rose up being as there is no baking soda or baking powder. Yum though…
I’m going to try them again, but this time I’m going to use canned pumpkin.
L
October 4th, 2009 6:10 amI’ve been dying to break out the cans of pumpkin, so I made these last night. Delicious! The cream cheese frosting really makes them. I tried your pumpkin bread pudding last Thanskgiving, too. Yum!
I have to pass along this recipe for pumpkin cookies, because people go crazy over these things when I make them every year. Enjoy! (p.s. The recipe makes a ton of cookies.)
2 cups sugar
1 cup shortening (1/2 butter, 1/2 Crisco)
1 can pumpkin
2 tsp vanilla
*Cream sugar and shortening. Add pumpkin and vanilla.
4 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
6-12 oz. chocolate chips
Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes.
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JAB
October 4th, 2009 10:24 amHelp, please! I was so excited to make these and just went to local grocer (Vons) to pick up the ingredients that I didn’t have on hand…and to my utter dismay they don’t carry Canned Pumpkin yet!? For those of you who did make this already, where did you buy the pumpkin? I am SOOO ready to make these now!
Thanks :)
Rayshell
October 5th, 2009 3:59 pmOkay these were awful! Awfully good! (Insert cheese)
I made them for a party we went to over the weekend and everyone loved them! They were super easy too! Thanks!! :)
Signed,
Pumpkin Butt
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sarahbeanne
October 6th, 2009 1:30 pmWhen you tweeted about them, I was instantly drooling. I didn’t check here for the recipe until today, but TOO LATE. I made healthy superfoods pumpkin muffins. NOT THE SAME.
Here’s the recipe for those, anyway.
SUPERFOODSRx PUMPKIN WALNUT MUFFINS
No need to wait until the fall months to enjoy this scrumptious muffin. Bake a batch, freeze them and enjoy any time of the year.
Servings: 12 muffins
Serving Size: 1 muffin (2-1/2 ounces)
Volume: 5 cups batter, 12 (2-1/2 ounce) muffins
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
Notes: Grain, Vegetarian
Ingredients:
1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1 cup wheat or oat bran
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 cup plain non-fat yogurt
4 tablespoons butter, melted
3-4 tablespoons light brown sugar
1 cup canned pumpkin or pumpkin puree
1/4 cup finely chopped walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Fill a 12-muffin tin with baking cups and set aside. In a large bowl, combine flour, wheat bran, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Make a well in the center.
In a separate bowl, beat together egg, yogurt, melted butter, sugar, pumpkin and walnuts. Pour into well of dry ingredients and mix just until combined. Evenly distribute batter among muffin cups. Bake 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from pan and allow to cool on a wire rack.
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Meagan
October 13th, 2009 9:35 pmIs it really a cup of butter? Like two whole sticks? I ask because
1) that seems excessive, and
2) I made these tonight and when I looked at them in the oven there were little holes of butter boiling on the surface (like the steam holes that form in a pot of rice). Is that normal? And while they tasted pretty okay, they were really cakey and didn’t look like the one in your picture. I know I followed the recipe, but they just seemed like something was off…
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