PUMPKIN SQUARES

PUMPKIN SQUARES image

Categories Dessert

Number Of Ingredients 15

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup lightly packed muscovado sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup canned pumpkin puree
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon each:
baking powder
ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon each:
ground allspice
salt
Sprinkling freshly grated nutmeg
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

Steps:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8-inch-square baking pan and dust with flour. With an electric mixer, beat the butter until fluffy. Add the muscovado (after crushing any large lumps of the sugar between your fingertips) and brown sugar, and beat until creamy. Beat in the egg. With the beaters on low speed, mix in the vanilla and pumpkin puree until thoroughly blended. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, allspice, salt, and nutmeg in a small bowl. With the beaters on low speed, mix the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture. Fold in the nuts. Spread the batter evenly in the prepared pan, and bake for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool for about 15 minutes before cutting into squares.