Title: Pumpkin Cookie Bars
Categories: Cookie Dessert
Yield: 32 Servings

1	c	Flour
1	c	Libby's pumpkin
1/2	c	Quick oats
1/4	c	Chopped nuts
1 3/4	ts	Cinnamon
3/4	c	Evaporated milk
1/2	c	Brown sugar (packed)-for topping
1		Egg, slightly beaten
1/2	c	Brown sugar (packed)
1/3	c	Sugar
1/2	ts	Allspice
1/2	c	Butter (melted)
1/4	ts	Salt
1		8oz cream cheese
1/4	c	Orange Marmalade

Combine flour, oats, brown sugar, nuts and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Add butter, mix until crumbly. Press into bottom of 13x9x2 inch baking dish. Bake in 350 deg oven for 20-25 minutes. Remove from oven. Lower temp to 325 deg. Combine rest of ingredients. Pour over crust. Bake at 325 deg 25-30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool slightly and remove from pan. Cool completely on rack. Add topping.

ORANGE CREAM CHEESE TOPPING Beat together until fluffy one 8-ounce package of softened cream cheese and 1/4 cup (King Kelly) orange marmalade. Spread over cooled bars. Garnish with crushed granola, chopped nuts or zested orange peel. Cut into 32 bars and serve.

Jeff Viets

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