Pumpkin Roll Bars

What You'll Need

• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1½ cups granulated sugar
• tow teaspoons ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon ground cloves
• ½ teaspoon ground ginger
• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• one teaspoon vanilla
• one teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• Cream Cheese Filling
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• ¼ cup granulated sugar
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• one large egg
• tow large eggs
• one (15 oz.) can pumpkin
• ¼ cup water
• tow cups all-purpose flour

How to Make It

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Spray a 9 x 13 inch baking pan with non-stick cooking spray.
3. In a bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter and 1½ cups sugar until smooth.
4. Beat in 2 eggs, pumpkin, 1 teaspoon of vanilla and water until well blended.
5. In a separate bowl, mix flour, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, baking soda, baking powder, and salt; add the dry ingredients to the pumpkin/butter mixture and combine until well blended.
6. Spread about ⅔ of the batter evenly into the prepared pan.
7. In a bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat cream cheese, 1 egg, ¼ cup sugar, and ½ teaspoon of vanilla until smooth.
8. Spread cream cheese mixture evenly over the pumpkin batter.
9. Dollop the remaining pumpkin batter over the cream cheese batter and spread out as evenly as possible.
10. Use a table knife to swirl together the cream cheese and top layer of pumpkin batter.
11. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until the center of the pumpkin batter springs back when touched.
12. Cool completely in pan, then cut into bars.