Thanksgiving Pumpkin Blondies

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1/3 cup dark molasses
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons butter
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 6 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled
• 1 large egg, lightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup canned pumpkin, packed
• 3/4 cup milk chocolate chips (add about 1/2 tsp sugar if you use semi-sweet)

Recipe

• 1 prepare crumb topping: in medium bowl, combine topping ingredients with fingers or pastry blender until well blended; continue until a soft dough forms. cover and set aside.
• 2 prepare baking pan: heat oven to 350 degrees farenheit. grease an 8-inch square baking pan with 2 tsp of butter. dust with 1 tbsp flour. tap out excess flour.
• 3 prepare blondies: with a fork, thoroughly mix together 1 1/4 cups flour, baking powder, salt, ground ginger, and sugars in medium bowl.
• 4 stir in melted butter, egg, vanilla extract, and pumpkin until well blended and smooth.
• 5 stir in chocolate chips just until blended.
• 6 spread pumpkin batter evenly in pan.
• 7 finishing: with your fingers, break off dime-sized pieces of molasses mixture. sprinkle evenly over the top of the pumpkin batter.
• 8 bake in center of oven for 25 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean with a few moist crumbs (not wet batter).
• 9 cool thoroughly in the pan on a wire rack for about 1 hour. cut into 16 equal bars and remove from pan. enjoy!