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Pumpkin Squares

This square is great for a dessert either plain or with your favorite topping or it's also great with a hot cup of tea or coffee for breakfast either plain or served with non-dairy or dairy plain yogurt
Course Dessert or Breakfast Squares
Cuisine American, Vegan/Vegetarian
Keyword Pumpkin Squares
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings 9 - large pieces
Author Deb Delozier | Vegelicious Kitchen

Ingredients

Bottom Crust

  • 1 5/8 cup spelt flour or flour of your choice
  • pinch of salt
  • 1/2 cup Earth Balance Coconut Spread, or butter for non-vegan
  • 1/4 cup maple syrup
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract

Filling

  • 1 15 oz can of pumpkin
  • 1 12 oz pkg soft silken tofu, or 2 eggs for non-vegan
  • 2 T cornstarch
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 cup sugar of your choice
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp ground ginger
  • 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1/8 tsp ground cloves
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Topping

  • 1 1/2 cups quick oats
  • 1/2 cup chopped pecans
  • pinch of salt
  • 1/8 - 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup oil
  • 1/4 cup maple syrup
  • 1 T vanilla extract

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F
  • Lightly oil a 9" x 9" square glass baking pan
  • For the bottom crust:
  • Combine your spelt flour, salt and Earth Balance Coconut Spread (or butter) using a hand held pastry blender or a fork until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs
  • Add your maple syrup and vanilla extract and combine well
  • Press this crust mixture in the bottom of your baking pan and pre-bake it at 350 degrees F for 10 - 12 minutes
  • While the crust is pre-baking, prepare your filling
  • Combine all your filling ingredients, pumpkin, tofu (or eggs}, cornstarch, salt, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves in a food processor with the S blade and process until smooth - you may need to stop and scrape the sides once and then continue processing
  • When the bottom crust comes out of the oven, let it sit for about 5 minutes and then top it with this filling.
  • The topping is made my combining the quick oats, chopped pecans, salt, cinnamon, oil, maple syrup and vanilla until they are thoroughly mixed and form a crumble
  • Sprinkle the crumble over the top of the pumpkin filling and press it gently into the filling
  • Pop it in the oven and bake at 350 degrees F for 40 minutes. Take it out and cool for 10 - 15 minutes before cutting it into squares.