This document provides instructions for making pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting. It outlines the necessary ingredients and equipment, and gives step-by-step directions for mixing, baking, and frosting the bars. Key details include mixing dry and wet ingredients separately before combining, baking at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 25-30 minutes, and allowing the bars to fully cool before frosting to ensure the topping spreads evenly.

1. What’s Cooking?
A recipe with a dash of
knowledge
By Tara Ruport

2. Starting Out
• Preparing food is like surgery, we
don’t want any bacteria or germs
in our food so always wash hands
before cooking.
• When cooking food for people
always be aware of the person’s
food allergies.
• If some one has a reaction call
911

3. Materials and Utensils
• Wisk or spoon
• 2 Large bowls
• 12x18 inch pan
• Measuring cup and a liquid measure cup
• Tablespoon (aka tbsp)
• Teaspoon (aka tsp)

4. Ingredients for making the Bars
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup of oil
• 1 tsp of baking soda
• 2 cups of flour
• 2 cups of sugar
• 2 tsp of baking powder
Baking soda causes the dough to
rise when an acidic ingredients is
added such as milk or yogurt.
Baking powder is a combination
of baking soda, acid, and moisture
absorber like corn starch.

5. Ingredients for the Bars
Spices like ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg come from plants
and roots. They are grounded up into a salt like state.
•15 oz can of pumpkin pie filling
•2 1/2 tsp of ground cloves
•1/2 tsp of ground nutmeg
•2 tsp of cinnamon
•1/2 tsp of ginger

6. Mixing the ingredients
• When cooking with baking soda or powder or both
always mix the dry materials together before adding
to the liquid materials.
The Liquid Ingredients
refer to anything that can be
poured or grainy like the sugar.
The Dry Ingredients
refer to to any ingredient in
powder form.

7. Starting Out
• First mix eggs, oil, sugar and can of
pumpkin
• Then mix all dry ingredients together in
a separate bowl
• Add in the dry materials slowly to the
wet while mixing at the same time
When you mix oil with an opposite like water or
eggs, you must add a little at a time to get them to
mix completely. The method of this mixing is

8. Getting ready to Bake
• Spray a 12x18 sheet pan with a nonstick
spray
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Farhenheit
• Spread the mixture evenly out in the pan
• Once the oven is ready, bake the bars for 25-
30 minutes
• Do the toothpick test to tell if it is done

9. Things to do while it is cooking
Play some games or
check email
Call Mom to ask questions about the recipe
The Dishes

10. Ingredients to make the Topping
• 8 oz softened cream cheese
• 3/4 stick of softened margarine (6 teaspoons)
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1 Tbsp of milk
• 1 tsp of vanilla
The term Softened means that it
will be so soft that it seems like it
has melting. This state of the
ingredient makes it very easy to mix
with others.

11. Steps
• Mix all the
ingredients except
the powdered
sugar
• Slowly add the
powdered sugar
while mixing until it
becomes creamy
and spreadable

12. Spreading, Yummy
1. To check if the bars have cooled completely, feel the
bottom of the pan.
2. If it is still warm, they
are still not ready for their
topping, once it feels
cool, like room
temperature than you can
start to spread.
*This is the general rule for all cakes and bars when adding a topping. *

13. Congratulations!!
You successfully made a sheet of
pumpkin bars.
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