Skinny Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bars. No artificial preservatives, flavors or dyes. Drizzle half of the cream cheese over the top of it and take a small spatula to smooth it over the top. Add remaining cake-pumpkin mix & also the remaining cream cheese just making layers.
When autumn rolls around, these seasonal pumpkin squares are always on my baking list. The lovely spiced bars with a thick, dreamy layer of frosting are the perfect treat for pumpkin lovers. Healthier Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting that are moist, delicious and taste just like cake, but without any butter or refined sugar!. You can have Skinny Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bars using 5 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Skinny Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bars
- It's 1 box of angel food cake mix- the 1 step kind.
- You need 1 of 15oz can Pumpkin.
- It's 3/4 cup of water.
- You need 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.
- You need 1 of 8oz pkg. reduced fat cream cheese.
Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting. Greek yogurt cream cheese has fewer calories and more protein than regular cream cheese, but it still has the same iconic taste. I found mine at Safeway (their own Lucerne brand), and some Walmart stores carry the Greek Mountain Farms brand, too. Remember to buy the brick-style block, not the tub!
Skinny Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bars step by step
- In a separate bowl, mix the cake mix, pumpkin, water, & cinnamon together until it is smooth & well mixed..
- In a 9x13 pyrex dish- sprayed with PAM- add HALF of the cake –pumpkin mix. Then smooth it out with a rubber spatula. Drizzle half of the cream cheese over the top of it and take a small spatula to smooth it over the top. Add remaining cake-pumpkin mix & also the remaining cream cheese just making layers. Finally take a butter knife- stick it into the mix and go back & forth over the top of the cake making figure “8’s” - to blend it a bit..
- Bake for 35 minutes at 375°F OR until a toothpick comes out clean..
Note: If you can't find Greek yogurt cream. Tips for Making Layered Cheesecake Bars. These creamy, tangy layered pumpkin cheesecake bars aren't tough to prepare, but a few tips will help them turn out perfectly! I love pumpkin in desserts in the fall. Some more of my favorites are Skinny Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Spice No-Bake Cheesecake and Pumpkin Hazelnut White Chocolate Biscotti.