Caramel Pumpkin Butter Bars
These bars will melt in your mouth with a soft, buttery crust and an ooey, gooey pumpkin caramel filling!
Servings: 12 bars
Calories: 617kcal
Ingredients
Pumpkin Caramel Sauce
- 12 ounces caramel sauce
- ½ cup (123 g) pure pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling
- ½ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
Butter Bars
- 2 cups (4 sticks / 452 g) Challenge® unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
- 1 ½ cups (188 g) confectioners' sugar
- 4 cups (500 g) all-purpose flour
Instructions
Pumpkin Caramel Sauce
- Pour caramel into a bowl. Add in the pure pumpkin and pumpkin spice and stir well. Set aside.
Butter Bars
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter and sugars, about 3 minutes.
- With the mixer on low, add the flour, one cup at a time. The dough will be crumbly.
- Press half of the dough evenly into the prepared pan.
- Bake for 25 minutes, or until light golden brown.
- Remove from oven and let sit for about 10 minutes.
- Pour the pumpkin caramel sauce over the baked crust.
- Sprinkle the remaining dough evenly over the top of the pumpkin caramel.
- Bake for an additional 25 minutes.
- Let the bars cool completely before cutting.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1bar | Calories: 617kcal