Cocoa Pumpkin Bars
Makes 18 bars @ 65 calories, 7 carbs, and 6 grams of protein per bar
Dry Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 cup Whole Wheat White Flour
- 1 cup wheat bran
- 1/2 cup soy protein powder
- 1/2 cup stevia
- 2 tbsp 100% cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder and baking soda
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
Liquid Ingredients:
- 1 cup liquid egg substitute
- 1 3/4 cup pure pumpkin
- 1/2 cup + 2 tbsp Unsweetened Almond Milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray 2 8×8 pans with cooking spray, set aside.
- Combine dry ingredients until just combined.
- Add in liquid ingredients, stir well
- Spread mixture into the 2 pans.
- Bake for about 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
** For winter squash bars simply substitute any type of pureed or mashed winter squash (ambercut, butternut, kabocha) in place of the pumpkin!
What a neat way to use pumpkin April!!! Seriously impressive nutritional stats. LOVE ‘EM!
xxoo
Heather
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Those look great! What kind of stevia do you use?
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This is what I’m doing with our pumpkins after Halloween…Thanks April!
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pumpkin and chocolate — talk about an allstar cast!
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woweee! what a great recipe!! thanks so much, April!!!!!!!!!!!1
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These look really good! Is there something I can sub for wheat bran? I’m not opposed to it or anything… just don’t have it on hand and probably wouldn’t use it enough to buy a whole bag/box. Isn’t it sort of like oatmeal or something?
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oh my gosh these sound amazing!!
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Mmm- made these last night. Awesome!!!
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