Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Gooey Bars Recipe
The gooier a dessert is, the happier I am. So I was in a state of pure bliss after sinking my teeth into these incredibly gooey, soft, and chewy bars. These gooey butter pumpkin bars incredibly easy to make, packed with the perfect amount of pumpkin flavor, and lots of semi-sweet chocolate to balance the sweetly spiced glaze. The gooey component comes via a half can of sweetened condensed milk that’s sandwiched in the middle of the bars. I hate throwing away ingredients, and these easy seven-minute microwave caramels make use of the rest of the can of sweetened condensed milk.
Ooey Gooey Pumpkin Bars Ingredients
To make the chocolate chip gooey butter pumpkin bars with spiced vanilla glaze, you’ll need:
Krusteaz Pumpkin Spice Cookie Mix Egg Unsalted butter Sweetened condensed milk Semi-sweet chocolate chips Water
Can I Use Another Cookie Mix to Make the Bars?
Yes! Krusteaz has various cookie mixes that you could use as the base for this recipe. The pumpkin spice cookie mix needed for these gooey pumpkin bars is a seasonal product, so you’ll have to wait until the fall to purchase it.
How to Make Ooey Gooey Pumpkin Bars
Chocolate chip pumpkin gooey bars come together quickly with the help of a store-bought baking mix. I don’t mind using baking shortcuts when they taste this good! Here’s how the ooey gooey pumpkin bars are made:
Can the Recipe Be Doubled?
Of course! Just double the ingredients and bake the bars in a 9×13-inch baking pan. The bake time should remain roughly the same.
Recipe Variations to Try
These gooey butter pumpkin bars are delicious as is, but you also can try one of the following ingredient swaps to customize the bars to your liking:
Swap the chocolate chips for chopped dried fruit or chopped nuts. Use a different flavor of chocolate chips such as milk or dark. Use another baking chip altogether like toffee bits, butterscotch chips, or anything you’d like to pair with the bars. Swap the glaze for cream cheese frosting. (The bars will be extra rich!) Use a different cookie mix. The gooey bars could be made with chocolate chip cookie mix, snickerdoodle cookie mix, you name it! It’s a method more than a recipe.
Tips for Making Gooey Pumpkin Bars
Cookie mix: Pumpkin spice cookie mixes are seasonal products that you can’t buy year-round. So you may need to wait until September / October to make these bars. Bake time: Bake the bars just until the edges are golden and the center is barely set. If you overbake the bars, they won’t stay as gooey! Glaze: The bars can be glazed while they’re still slightly warm, but not hot. If you glaze the bars when they first come out of the oven, the glaze will just sink into the bars and make a mess.
More Easy Pumpkin Desserts:
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Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting — These super soft and moist pumpkin bars are the perfect EASY fall dessert!! Tangy cream cheese frosting is a wonderful complement to these perfectly pumpkin-spiced bars!!
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Soft Praline Pumpkin Bars (with Cake Mix!) — SUPER soft pumpkin bars studded with chocolate chips, candied pecans, and plenty of pumpkin pie spice!!
Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake — Like a gooier, richer version of pumpkin pie with a spice cake crust!! Butter + cream cheese = lives up to its GOOEY name! Make it for Thanksgiving instead of pumpkin pie!!
Soft and Chewy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies – No cakey cookies here! Soft, chewy, thick, loaded with chocolate and bold pumpkin flavor! Your new favorite pumpkin cookies!
The Best Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cake with Chocolate Ganache — One of my all-time favorite cakes, EVER! This is a must-make that everyone loves!
Cream Cheese-Filled Pumpkin Bread – Pumpkin bread that’s like having cheesecake baked in! Soft, fluffy, easy and tastes ahhhh-mazing!
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