Monday 23 March 2015

Butternut Cranberry Bars





Butternut Cranberry Bars

2 cups cake flour
1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice**
1 tsp baking soda
1 ½ cup brown sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup olive oil
1 egg
1 cup butternut puree, cooled down
1 tsp. vanilla
½ cup dried cranberries
½ cup pecan nuts, chopped
1 cup seedless raisins

Preheat oven to 180ºC.

Spray a square baking tin, line with wax paper, spray again. Combine the flour, pumpkin spice,

baking soda, sugar & salt in a bowl.

Mix the oil, egg, pumpkin & vanilla and beat well. Mix with the dry flour-spice ingredients, stir in

the cranberries, nuts & raisins and pour into baking tin. Bake for 40 min, or till skewer comes

out clean. Cut into squares.

 

**Pumpkin pie spice mix

½ tsp cinnamon, ¼ tsp ground

 

Alma Pretorius