Pumpkin Bars with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting (4 pts with frosting)

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Pumpkin Bars with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting (4 pts with frosting)

I’ve decided to experiment with pumpkin this year. I’ve never baked with pumpkin before other than pumpkin pie. I’ve been wanting to jump on the pumpkin bandwagon and try something out. For my first adventure into baking with pumpkin, I thought I’d go with a simple WW recipe to make some pumpkin bars.

These bars are great and so low in calories and fat. They were definitely better the second day after sitting in the fridge for a while. Hubby absolutely loves cream cheese frosting and doesn’t think the bars would cut it without the frosting, but you could definitely save some calories by eating the bars without the frosting.

Pumpkin bars – 2 pts1 box Spice cake mix
1 can pumpkin
1 egg – I used ¼ cup Egg Beaters

Preheat oven at 325. Mix all ingredients. I added the egg because the dough was just too dry without it.

Grease a 11×17 pan and pour batter into pan.

Bake for 25-35 minutes until bars pull away from edges of pan. Cool completely prior to frosting.

Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting – adapted from Allrecipes.com – 2 pts1 8 oz tub Cream Cheese at room temp – I used Tofutti Better than Cream Cheese
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter at room temp
1/2 tsp Vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup powdered sugar

Cream together cream cheese and butter. Add vanilla and cinnamon. Add sugar and beat until desired consistency.

Nutritional Information (please double check with your ingredients and serving sizes – I use this recipe calculator)

1 bar (2″x2″): 78.4 Calories, 1.3 g Fat, 0.0 mg Cholesterol, 116.3 mg Sodium, 6.9 mg Potassium, 15.5 g Carbs, 0.6 g Dietary Fiber, 8.5 g Sugar, 0.6 g Protein WW POINTS = 2

frosting for 1 bar: 51.8 Calories, 2.8 g Fat, 4.0 mg Cholesterol, 43.8 mg Sodium, 0.2 mg Potassium, 6.4 g Carbs, 0.0 g Dietary Fiber, 4.5 g Sugar, 0.3 g Protein
WW POINTS = 2

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14 Responses to “Oven Roasted Chickpeas”

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Funandfearlessinbeantown — February 1, 2011 at 5:16 pm

I was also totally inspired by the same blog post and made them with a spicy kick! These are totally addictive!
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Kathy Day — February 1, 2011 at 5:22 pm

Noms! I love to roast chickpeas with Asparagus in the spring. It’s one of my favorite quick meals, but I still havent cooked them crispy for snacking yet…. You are now person number 5 (or more I lost count) to post these so I think they are in odred very soon!
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Cathy — February 1, 2011 at 5:26 pm

looks good! I saw a recipe from the whole living magazine last week that I was going to try too.
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Pyjammy Pam — February 1, 2011 at 6:38 pm

Okay, that is seriously spooky. I was *just* about to go look for a recipe for these (I bought a can of chickpeas a few weeks ago to make some) and up popped your blog in my google reader. Woo!
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Janelovrut — February 2, 2011 at 12:50 am

Mmm, so glad everyone is loving these. And now I know what to make for my friend’s superbowl party! Thanks for the reminder!
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Sarah C — February 2, 2011 at 12:52 am

I love that you use canned chickpeas for this! When I saw the title I thought “mmm, tasty, but you probably have to do dried chickpeas and blah blah blah”. But you don’t! And it’s a perfect quick use for the extra cans I have in the pantry so that I don’t have to keep making hummus. 🙂

I’ve already put some of your Super Bowl recipes on my menu for Sunday, including the mini ham & cheese sandwiches. We live in Pittsburgh and are huge Steelers fans, so we’re REALLY EXCITED!!!
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Jen @ BeantownBaker.com — February 2, 2011 at 2:41 am

Hope your Superbowl menu turns out great. Although I have to admit, I’ll be rooting against your team!
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Shannon — February 2, 2011 at 5:21 am

love the smoked paprika 🙂
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Jessica — February 2, 2011 at 5:46 am

I have yet to try these and really just need to jump in and do it! Thanks for the reminder 😉
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Katie — February 2, 2011 at 2:17 pm

Have been meaning to make these! So yummy to snack on and crazy good for you. Need to make these soon..
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Neev — February 4, 2011 at 1:17 am

Great snack. What if I am dried chickpeas not canned. Does it need to be soaked overnight?
Neev
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Lisa @Karma Per Diem — February 4, 2011 at 1:29 am

How interesting! I love chickpeas and am going to make these this weekend! Thanks!
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Jen @ BeantownBaker.com — February 4, 2011 at 2:05 am

Neev – I’m really not sure how to do this with dried chickpeas. I’ve only used canned. I would assume you would want to soak them overnight first.
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Pyjammy Pam — March 30, 2011 at 11:26 am

Okay, that is seriously spooky. I was *just* about to go look for a recipe for these (I bought a can of chickpeas a few weeks ago to make some) and up popped your blog in my google reader. Woo!