Skinny Pumpkin Pie Bars - Recipe Diaries (2024)

Pumpkin pie bars are a delicious and easy-to-make dessert that is perfect for the fall season. These bars have all the delicious flavors of a classic pumpkin pie, but in a convenient handheld form.

Once the bars have cooled, cut them into squares and serve with a dollop of whipped cream on top. These pumpkin pie bars are the perfect dessert for Thanksgiving or any fall gathering, and are sure to please everyone's sweet tooth.

The only thing I like during Thanksgiving is the desserts and my family makes pies. Grandma will usually make a pumpkin or apple pie.

Usually, I think of Thanksgiving as eating a ton of food and taking a nap after that. I'm not really a big fan of turkey because it normally ends up dry or my family is pretty famous for not getting a turkey cooked on time.

The only way to make turkey better is with a ton of gravy and the sides are just blah to me. That is why I hardly have any Thanksgiving recipes on this site.

If you like pumpkin desserts for Fall try Pumpkin Muffins with Chocolate Chips, Pumpkin Fluff, or 5 Easy Recipes with Canned Pumpkin and Cake Mix.

Ingredients Needed

• Honey Nut Cheerios cereal - is great as a pie crust! Just crush the cheerios up into crumbs in a food processor.
• Light butter, melted butter is the most commonly used type of butter in baking, as it allows for more control over the amount of salt in the recipe.
• Eggs - The best type of eggs you can buy at the store are organic or free-range eggs, while others may prefer eggs from specific breeds of chickens
• Brown sugar- Is made by combining granulated white sugar with molasses, which gives it a brown color and a slightly different taste than regular white sugar.Pumpkin puree
• Fat free evaporated milk - Dairy does not like me at all so I go for a lactose free milk such as Fairlife. It also has more protein in it.
• Cinnamon is a spice that comes from the inner bark of several trees from the genus Cinnamomum.
• Ginger
• Vanilla - It is made by macerating and soaking vanilla beans in a mixture of water and Vodka. Use good pure vanilla instead of the imitation vanilla extrac
• See the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.

How to Make Pumpkin PIe Bars

1. Make crust: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9”-x-9” square baking pan.
2. Add the cheerios, sugar, and butter into a food processor. Pulse the cereal into fine crumbs. If you don't have a food processor, add all the ingredients to a ziplock bag and crush them with a rolling pin or meat mallet.
3. Press crumb mixture into the bottom of the greased baking pan. Bake until crust turns golden, about 7-8 minutes. Let cool while you make filling. Turn the oven temperature up to 425 degrees.
4. Make filling. Beat all filling ingredients together until smooth with an electric hand mixer. Pour filling into crust and bake 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Bake about 35 minutes longer or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool to room temperature then refrigerate until chilled.
5. Sift powdered sugar over sliced squares before serving.

These pumpkin pie bars are low calorie and taste just like pumpkin pie. Plus they are gluten free! The crust is made of honey nut cheerios instead of graham cracker crumbs.

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