Spiced Pumpkin Bars with
Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients including canned pumpkin are easy to find. As you know, pumpkin has lots of beta carotene, a source of vitamin A.

Egg	4 large
Sugar	1 ½ cup
Vegetable oil	1 cup
Canned pumpkin, 16 oz	1 can
All purpose flour	2 cups
Baking powder	2 tsp
Baking soda	1 tsp
Ground cinnamon	2 tsp
Salt	½ tsp
Ground ginger	½ tsp
Ground cloves	¼ tsp
Raisins, chopped	1 cup
Your favorite chopped nuts, optional	½ cup
Cream cheese frosting

• Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, ginger, and cloves together. To keep raisins and chopped nuts from sinking to the bottom, coat them with some of this flour mixture. Set them all aside.
  
  
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F., grease or line a jelly roll pan, 15½ x 10½ x 1 inch, with parchment paper.

• Using an electric mixer, beat eggs, sugar, vegetable oil, and pumpkin in a large bowl.

• Gradually fold in the flour mixture, a third at a time. Then fold in raisins and chopped nuts.
  
  
• Pour batter evenly into baking pan. Bake for 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
  
  
  
• Cool pumpkin bars completely before topping with irresistible cream cheese frosting or icing.

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