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Pumpkin Blondies

October 15, 2021 by Erica 6 Comments

Pumpkin Blondies

I highly recommend adding pumpkin and squash purée into baked recipes. It lends sweetness and moisture, and can be used to replace some or all of another ingredient.

This recipe is based on my popular recipe for blondies, found on my site and in one of my cookbooks. I reduced a bit of the almond butter and replaced it with pumpkin purée (actually roasted butternut squash purée). I kept the amount of sweetener the same because the added sweetness from the pumpkin is very subtle and I’m also increasing the volume of the batter so I want to insure that I have enough sweetness in every bite.

And, the results…amazing! I love this as much if not more than my blondies recipes. But I’ll let you be the judge.

A note on spices: I keep this to just cinnamon, but feel free to add the full array of traditional pumpkin spices, including nutmeg, ginger, and cloves for a spicier pumpkin blondie. See the recipe notes for the amounts to add.

Pumpkin Blondies

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  1. Sue K.

    December 1, 2021 at 9:10 am

    5 stars
    Thank you for another simple and delicious recipe! Because my batter was runny due to runny almond butter and using maple syrup, I added 2 teaspoons of coconut flour. They baked up beautifully as 8 cupcakes.

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    • Erica

      December 1, 2021 at 9:31 am

      Great to hear! thanks for sharing what worked for you 🙂 I use maple syrup and it’s never runny, fyi, so it will depend on your almond butter or other nut butter for sure. My almond butter is not runny and I use brands that don’t add extra oil, so that might be the case with some runny batters. Cheers!

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  2. Karen

    October 30, 2021 at 5:52 pm

    You say to spread it across the pan. I measured exactly and it is very runny. Is there any ingredient, like coconut flour, that is missing?

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    • Erica

      October 30, 2021 at 6:06 pm

      Yes, spread it across the pan, it will be slightly gooey, not runny. Hmmm, is your almond butter runny? Or is the pumpkin puree runny?

      Reply
  3. Jan

    October 16, 2021 at 12:33 pm

    What nut would be a good almond substitute since I’m allergic to them. Thanks

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    • Erica

      October 16, 2021 at 12:54 pm

      Pumpkin seed butter, cashew butter, and peanut butter are good options. They will change the flavor a bit.

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Measurement equivalents

1 tablespoon 3 teaspoons
1/4 cup 4 tablespoons
1 cup 8 ounces
1 teaspoon 5 ml
1 tablespoon 15 ml

Temperature conversions

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