Ingredients
2 cups pumpkin
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp cloves
4 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
¼ tsp nutmeg
¾ cup oil
2 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp ginger
2 cups sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
2 cups flour
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
Cream Cheese Frosting
1 (3 oz) package cream cheese
1 stick butter or margarine
½ tsp vanilla
1½ cups powdered sugar
1 Tbsp cream or milk
Directions
Mix pumpkin, eggs and oil together.
Stir in sugar.
Add dry ingredients and stir well, adding nuts last.
Pour into a large cookie sheet for thin bars or a 9 × 13-inch cake pan for thicker bars.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 25–30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool and frost with cream cheese frosting, or leave unfrosted.
The whole can of pumpkin and a jelly-roll pan may be used.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Mix all frosting ingredients together.
Spread thinly over cooled pumpkin bars.