Thanksgiving Leftover Bars

Many of you will be doing your Thanksgiving meal shopping soon and picking up the ingredients for the stuffing, the pies, and the bird itself.  Even if you have your menu plan down to a science, you are bound to have some ingredients left over after the cooking and baking is done.  You can make these delicious Thanksgiving Leftover Bars with your leftover pumpkin puree, cranberry sauce, and pecans!

Thanksgiving Leftover Bars

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Ingredients

BARS

• 1 c. flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 c. butter melted
• 1 1/3 c. brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 T. cinnamon
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 c. pumpkin puree
• 1/2 c. craisins
• 2/3 cranberry sauce

ICING

• 1 T. fresh squeezed orange juice
• 1 1/2 c. powdered sugar
• zest of one orange
• 1/2 c. chopped pecans

Instructions

• Whisk together dry ingredients.
• Cream butter and sugar, beat in egg, cinnamon, and vanilla.
• Stir in pumpkin, then slowly add in the dry ingredients.
• Fold in craisins.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 9x13 and drop spoonfuls of cranberry sauce over the batter. Swirl the sauce through the batter with a butter knife.
• Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.
• Zest and squeeze one large orange.
• Add in powdered sugar until the frosting reaches the desired thickness.
• Cool bars completely before frosting. Sprinkle bars with nuts.

Notes

Adapted from Baking Bites

This delicious recipe will make sure that nothing goes to waste.  (Whether or not the food goes to waist, is something you will have to take care of on your own.)

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