Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars #HalloweenTreatsWeek

Pumpkin cheesecake bars are perfect for the fall, with a graham cracker crust, cheesecake layer, and pumpkin pie on top with all of the fall holiday spices you love.

The recipe is part of #HalloweenTreatsWeek and is sponsored by Dixie Crystals.

Each year bloggers share their favorite Halloween treats with you, the readers. When you get to the bottom of the post, be sure to scroll down and see the other recipes.

You can also enter #HalloweenTreatsWeek into any social media outlet and you will find the recipes.

A Decadent Dessert

Pumpkin cheesecake bars are a decadent and wonderfully comforting dessert.

The crust features graham crackers, brown and white sugar, buter, and cinnamon for a crunchy buttery layer.

The pumpkin bars are topped with a sweet cream cheese mixture and a pumpkin pie for a treat that is out of this world.

What Ingredients Do I Need To Make Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars?

Graham Cracker Crust

• Graham crackers
• Butter
• Sugar
• Brown Sugar
• Cinnamon

Cream Cheese Filling

• Softened cream cheese
• Egg
• Sugar
• Vanilla extract

Pumpkin Layer

• Pumpkin puree
• Evaporated milk
• Sugar
• Salt
• Cinnamon
• Ginger
• Cloves
• Nutmeg
• Eggs

Full printable recipe with measurements and instructions listed at the bottom of the post in the recipe card.

How To Make Pumpkin Bars

1. Start by crushing the graham crackers and mix with cinnamon, brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon and butter.
2. Press into a square baking dish.
3. Next, add the softened cream cheese to a bowl and cream.
4. Add the sugar, vanilla extract and egg and mix well. Pour over the graham cracker crust.
5. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
6. In a large bowl, add the pumpkin puree, evaporated milk and mix.
7. Add the sugar, salt, eggs, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg to the bowl and mix well. Pour over the cream cheese mixture.
8. Bake for one hour or until a cake tester comes out clean.

Cinnamon Graham Cracker Crust

Start by adding the graham crackers to a Cuisinart. If you don’t have a Cuisinart you can put them into a baggie and crush them with a rolling pin.

Add the crushed graham crackers to a bowl along with the brown sugar, granulated sugar, and cinnamon.

Melt the butter and add it to the bowl and mix well.

Press the graham cracker mixture into a square baking dish.

I used a 9″ x 9″ dish for this recipe and lined the pan with parchment paper. You don’t have to, but it makes it a little easier to cut.

Cream Cheese Filling

For the cream cheese filling, add the softened cream cheese to a bowl and cream. Next, add the egg, sugar, and vanilla extract to the bowl and mix.

Spread the cream cheese mixture over the graham cracker crust and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Pour the evaporated milk into a bowl with pumpkin puree.

Add the cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves to the mixture.

Next, add the sugar, salt, and eggs to the bowl.

I used Dixie Crystals for the sugar for this recipe. It’s always a fantastic quality sugar.

Pour the pumpkin pie mixture into the square baking dish and bake for about one hour, or until a cake tester comes out clean.

Refrigerate the pumpkin cream cheese bars for at least one hour before cutting.

Other delicious holiday recipes:

• New York style cheesecake is a great way to start off the fall season.
• This pecan cinnamon roll recipe is absolutely divine. The best part? It’s easy and you don’t have to wait for the dough to rise with this recipe.
• Pecan pie cheesecake bars are sinfully delicious and everyone will be begging for the recipe.
• Caramel chocolate chip cookies are always a good thing when it comes holiday time.

Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

Check out the recipe card below, grab those ingredients, and start baking! This is a great recipe for the fall.

Then, share your comments below and share a picture of your pumpkin cream cheese bars on the Pinterest Pin!  If you made any changes or added something different, be sure to share it with us so we can try it, too!

Take a look at more spooky Halloween recipes from our #HalloweenTreatsWeek Bloggers today:  Halloween Cookies & Bars:

• Cake Mix Monster Cookies from Big Bear’s Wife
• Candy Bar Cookies from Devour Dinner
• Oreo Mummy Cookies from Savory Experiments
• Easy Halloween Cake Mix Sprinkle Cookies from Family Around the Table
• Halloween Sugar Cookie Bars from House of Nash Eats
• Eye Love Chocolate Sugar Cookies from An Affair From the Heart
• Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars form Back To My Southern Roots

  Halloween Cakes & Cupcakes:

• Bloody Broken Glass Red Velvet Cake from Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks 
• Halloween Bats Oreo Cupcakes from Lemon Blossoms
• Pumpkin Cupcakes with Maple Frosting from The Flour Handprint

Halloween Brownies:

• The Scream Brownies from West Via Midwest
• Halloween Monster Chocolate Cake Brownies from JZ Eats
• Halloween Marshmallow Brownies from Sweet Beginnings

Halloween Pies:

• Halloween Mini S’mores Pudding Pies from For the Love of Food
•  Jack Skellington Boo-berry Pie from Savory Moments

Halloween Breakfast:

• Halloween Smoothie Bowl from Fresh Coast Eats
• Halloween Pancakes from I Am A Honeybee
• Pumpkin Spice Donuts from Pastry Chef Online

Halloween Drinks:

• Bloody Hot Cocoa from It’s Shanaka

Chilled Halloween Treats:

• Pennywise Ice Cream Float from Cheese Curd in Paradise
• Wicked Witch Popsicles from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures

No Bake Desserts:

• Muddy Buddy Halloween Snack Mix from Tastes of Homemade
• Candy Corn Rice Crispy Treats from The Spiffy Cookie
• Kid-Friendly Halloween Snack Board from Love and Confections
• Rice Krispie Treat Haunted Houses from Sweet ReciPEAS
• Ghostly Snack Mix from Fake Ginger
• Spooky Pretzel Rods from Take Two Tapas
• Halloween Candy Bark from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
•  Batty For Chocolate Dessert Cheese Ball from 4 Sons R Us  
•  Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake Dip from Strawberry Blondie Kitchen

Happy Halloween!

Spooky Season is here and it is time for 2020’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek event! #HalloweenTreatsWeek is a yearly Halloween blogging event that is hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife  & its a creepy and haunting week-long event is filled with some amazingly wicked Halloween treats, recipes and some frightfully fun giveaways.

“When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers ‘tis near Halloween.”

For the 3rd annual #HalloweenTreatsWeek event we have 30 hauntingly talented bloggers that are sharing their favorite Halloween recipes throughout the week! Follow the hashtag #HalloweenTreatsWeek on social media and look at the bottom of each post to see all of the Halloween recipes that we’re sharing!

Plus, don’t forget that we have some great giveaways for you this week thanks to our amazing sponsor and bloggers this year!  

Prize #1 from Dixie Crystals

OXO Good Grips 3-Piece Stainless-Steel Mixing Bowl Set

 

Prize #2 from Angie at BigBearsWife 

Ninja OP301 Foodi 9-in-1 Pressure, Slow Cooker, Air Fryer and More, with 6.5 Quart Capacity and 45 Recipe Book, and a High Gloss Finish

Prize #3 from Nicole Taggart’s Origami Owl Jewelry Bar

Origami Owl Locket and Halloween Charms

 

Prize #4 from Kathy at Lemon Blossoms 

6 Quart Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker

 

Prize #5 from Terri at Our Good Life

Young Living’s Thieves Mints ($50 Value)

Pop a Thieves Mint into your mouth for cinnamint-fresh breath after meals. Made with naturally derived ingredients and free of artificial sweeteners, dyes, and preservatives, Thieves Mints are a choice you can feel good about. Created with Young Living’s Thieves essential oil blend, these mints deliver minty coolness with a hint of warm, sugar-free sweetness. Thieves Mints come in a conveniently sized container that is great to take on the go!!

 

Prize #6 from Julie  at Back To My Southern Roots

1 Copy of  – The Peanuts Family Cookbook: Delicious Dishes for Kids to Make with Their Favorite Grown-Ups

 

Prize #8 from Peabody of Sweet ReciPEAS

1 Copy of her new cookbook “Holy Sweet! 60 Indulgent Recipes for Bigger, Better Desserts”

 

Prize #9 from Megan of Strawberry Blondie Kitchen

1 Copy of her cookbook, “Incredible One-Pot Cooking: Easy, Delicious Recipes for Exciting Meals Without the Mess”

 

Prize #10 from Nicole of For the Love of Food Blog

1 Copy of “Friends: The Official Cookbook”

 

Prize #11 from Michaela from An Affair from the Heart, Jennifer from Take Two Tapas and Michele from West Via Midwest

ONE (1) $75 Amazon gift card

 

Prize #12 from Shanaka from It’s Shanaka

ONE (1) $25 Amazon gift card

 

Prize #13 from Ashley from Cheese Curd In Paradise

1 Copy of her cookbook, ” The Serial Killer Cookbook: True Crime Trivia and Disturbingly Delicious Last Meals from Death Row’s Most Infamous Killers and Murderers”

 

Prize #14 from Amy from House of Nash Eats

ONE (1) $100 Amazon gift card

  a Rafflecopter giveaway   Giveaway open to US Residents 18 years or older. All entries will be verified. No PO Boxes Please. Prizes will be sent directly from sponsors to winners, bloggers are not responsible for prizes. This giveaway runs from October 5th – October 10th at 11:59PM EST. Winners will be selected soon afterward and contacted by e-mail. Winners will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. There are a total of 14 prizes and therefore we will have a total of 14 winners. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law. Disclaimer: These posts and recipes are part of the week-long event, #HalloweenTreatsWeek but all opinions are 100% mine! We would like to Thank our amazing brand sponsors: Dixie Crystals that provided a prize pack for our giveaways and also sent some samples and products to the #HalloweenTreatsWeek bloggers to use in their recipes. We would also love to give a huge thanks to our Halloween Treats Week bloggers because a lot of them also donated prizes for the giveaways, including:  Angie of BigBearsWife ,  Nicole of Nicole Taggart’s Origami Owl Jewelry Bar, Kathy of Lemon Blossoms,  Terri of Our Good Life,  Julie of Back To My Southern Roots,  Peabody of Sweet ReciPEAS, Megan of Strawberry Blondie Kitchen, Nicole of For the Love of Food Blog, Michaela of An Affair from the Heart, Jennifer of Take Two Tapas , Michele of West Via Midwest, Shanaka of It’s Shanaka, Ashley of Cheese Curd In Paradise, and Amy from House of Nash Eats!