Happy Thanksgiving!

26Nov09

So I’m heading home to spend some time with family the next two days for the holidays. I decided to be a good houseguest and make some dessert. I settled on Pumpkin Cheesecake bars. And just my luck practically all the ingredients were on sale!

Here’s the link

I used yellow cake mix instead of the pound cake, canola oil instead of the butter, and omitted the pecans. I also realized as I began to make this that I do not own a hand mixer, so I had to resort to using a whisk, which worked out fine. It took about 50 minutes in the oven, instead of the 30-35 minutes.

I had a bite, and while it’s tasty, it isn’t very “cheesecakey.” Tastes more like pumpkin pie in bar form. Also the bottom layer is quite hard, tastes good, but it was difficult to cut and I ruined a couple of bars in attempts to get the first ones out. Don’t know if I’d ever make them again, but it was a fun attempt. Hopefully the family will like it!