Yummy Pumpkin Streusel Bars

If I've said it once...I've said it a million times...

I AM FAR FROM BEING A PERFECT MOM!!! 

I don't always have the cleanest house..

I don't always have dinner on the table by 6...
Heck sometimes dinner is a fend for yourself thing...
Finding activities for my kids is always a challenge...

So lets just say...
I AM FAR FROM BEING A PERFECT HOMEMAKER!!!

I've mentioned not being perfect before but to try and work towards being a better mom I try and make breakfast fro my kids during the school week (now when my daughter lived at homed I feel short on his when she got into high school cuz she had to leave for school at 5:15 in the morning...um thats really early and I figured she could handle breakfast herself, she'll be a mom someday and would need to figure out breakfast for her kids so why not start now...see not a perfect mom).  Don't get me wrong, there is an occasional bowl o cereal in there now and than because its hard to come up with a varity of different meals every day...that includes dinner too!

But this time of year its totally easy...WHY cuz its Pumpkin season!!!    

So what did I find and come up for breakfast today...

PUMPKIN STREUSEL BARS  (Yummmmmmmmmyyyyyy) 

These are supper moist and delicious and can be served for breakfast or dessert! 

 Yes this would be my son stuffing his face with Pumpkin bars...
...after dunking it into his milk 
(oh and spilling it all over the table...messy child!)

STRESUSEL TOPPING 

~1/4 cup sugar 

~1/4 cup brown sugar 

~1/2 cup flour 

~1/4 cup cold butter 

~1/4 cup cinnamon 

PUMPKIN BARS 

~4 eggs 

~1 2/3 cups sugar 

~1 cup vegetable oil or canola oil 

~15 oz pureed pumpkin (I like using fresh pumpkin not canned but you could use can) 

~2 cups flour 

~2 tsp baking powder 

~1 tsp baking soda 

~1 tsp salt 

~1 tsp cinnamon 

GLAZE 

~1 tbsp butter, softened 

~1/2 tsp vanilla 

~1 cup powdered sugar, more as needed to reach desired consistency 

~1 tbsp milk, more as needed to reach desired consistency 

~1/4 tsp salt 

INSTRUCTIONS 

~Preheat oven to 350 degrees 

~To make streusel, combine sugars, flour and cinnamon into a bowl.  Cut cold butter into them until crumbs form.  Set aside. 

~To make pumpkin bars:  In a large bowl combine eggs, sugar, oil and pumpkin and beat until light and fluffy.  

~Add dry ingredients, flour, baking powder, soda, salt and cinnamon, to the pumpkin mixture and whisk until well combined. 

~Pour into greased 9x13 pan. 

~Evenly sprinkle and distribute crumb topping over pumpkin bar batter. 

~Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes until done and toothpick test comes out clean. 

~To make the glaze:  Cream butter in a medium bowl. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, milk, and salt and beat until glaze is smooth.  Add more powder sugar and milk as needed to reach desired consistency.  Pour over warm bars. 

~ Serve warm or cold.  

~To make streusel, combine sugars, flour and cinnamon into a bowl.  Cut cold butter into them until crumbs form.  Set aside. 

~To make pumpkin bars:  In a large bowl combine eggs, sugar, oil and pumpkin and beat until light and fluffy.  

~Add dry ingredients, flour, baking powder, soda, salt and cinnamon, to the pumpkin mixture and whisk until well combined. 

~Pour into greased 9x13 pan. 

~Evenly sprinkle and distribute crumb topping over pumpkin bar batter. 

~Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes until done and toothpick test comes out clean. 

~To make the glaze:  Cream butter in a medium bowl. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, milk, and salt and beat until glaze is smooth.  Add more powder sugar and milk as needed to reach desired consistency. 

 Pour over warm bars. 

~ Serve warm or cold.  

Breakfast is served!!

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