Pumpkin Chip Bars - Secret Recipe Club

Hard to believe it's our final Secret Recipe Club of 2014.  This year has just flown by for me.  Seems I say that every year any more!!  Group B of SRC will be taking a break for the month of January!  Perfect for me because we're going on a cruise!  Warm weather vacations are the only thing that helps me get through these cold Nebraska winters!

I was lucky this month to be assigned the blog From Grandma Loy's Kitchen.  It was so hard to decide what to make.  She has an outstanding variety of recipes to choose from.  My recipe choice ended up coming down to a recipe to use that partial can of pumpkin in my fridge, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bars!  Have you tried pumpkin with chocolate chips?  It's one of my favorite new flavor combinations! Nice this recipe only calls for 1/4 cup of oil and makes a delicious, moist bar. 

Pumpkin Chip Cookies
Recipe Courtesy of Grandma Loy's Kitchen

4 eggs
1 (15 oz.) can pumpkin
1/4 c. vegetable oil
1 1/2 c. sugar
2 c. flour
2 t. baking powder
2 t. ground cinnamon
1 t. baking soda
1 t. salt
1 cup semisweet chocolate or other flavor baking chips
3 T. sugar
1/2 t. ground cinnamon

Place eggs in a large mixing bowl.  Beat well.  Add pumpkin, oil, and sugar.  Mix thoroughly.  Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt.  Mix well.  Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and mix until just moistened.  Stir in chips.  Spread in an ungreased 15x10x1-inch baking pan.  Combine sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle evenly over batter.  Bake at 350 degrees 25 to 30 minutes or till done.  Cool.  Cut into bars.  The recipe says 36 cookies, but I easily got 48.

To see other great recipes from Secret Recipe Club members, visit the links below!

1. Melted Snowman Cookies  2. Adventures in all things food: Popcorn Brittle  3. Vegan Chocolate Microwave Cake  4. Cranberry Pomegranate Vanilla Popcorn  5. Curried Chicken Salad - in a Biscuit  6. Baked Eggnog French Toast w/ Cran & White Choc  7. Double dark chocolate cookies  8. Spiced Pumpkin Pancakes  9. Cranberry Crunch Cake  10. Pumpkin Chip Bars  11. No Knead Crusty Bread  12. Chai Spiced Scones  13. Triangle Delights  14. Crepes  15. Chicken with Lemon, Potatoes and Olives | Searchin  16. Sweet and Sour, Grape Jelly Meatballs - Cooking On  17. Cinnamon Roll Custard Oats  18. Breakfast Sausage and Gravy  19. Cinnamon Roll Muffins  20. Chocolate Orange Sugar Yeast Cookies  21. Blueberry Coffee Cake  22. Make Ahead Cream Scones  23. Christmas Shortbread Bites  24. Gingerbread Cookies  25. apple pie wonton turnovers  26. Corey @ Learning Patience  27. Balsamic Reduction

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