Low Cal Pumpkin Squares

These are kind of like a light pumpkin pie square without the crust.

They are high in protein and only 80 cals for a 2"x4" slice.

http://www.calorie-count.com/recipe/105288.ht ml

Thanks! I always hear Americans talking about pumpkin pie, so I'm curious to see what it tastes like. But what's splenda? (I know it's sweetener of some sort, but how much sugar does a cup of splenda replace?)

Splenda is measured like sugar.

as long as you get the boxed or baking kind, NOT the packets! packets measure differently (dont recall how much now..) but Splenda is sweeter then sugar, keep that in mind. you can always use the same amount of sugar if you cant find splenda(but of course it adds calories)

thank you for the recipe, I love Pumpkin!! 

I have a recipe that's really similar to this one, and I eat them on top of a graham cracker square.  It doesn't really add that many calories (the ones I eat are 30 cals for a square) and it makes a kind of "crust". Yum.

It's the splenda that didn't get calculated.

are you using canned pumpkin?  or an actual pumpkin?  If you are using the actual pumpkin, is it just raw or do I need to roast it?  I tried roasting and pureeing pumpkin once and it was a disaster!

Thanks!

btw, abbeyfit, splenda is no-calorie so that should help with your calorie counting.

It's canned pumpkin. I haven't been so ambitious to try to puree my own!

i tried these yesterday and wow i really enjoyed them. will def make again, its decent cals for lots of protein too which i need :)

thanks for posting!

OK gang. There are probably some purists out there who are not going to like this little bit of advice but here goes...always use the canned pumpkin.

I've spent 30 years baking pies and the canned pumpkin is better than roasting and dealing with the mess of using fresh pumpkin. As for the taste? You can't tell the difference. In fact, the canned pumpkin is much smoother than the texture of the fresh pumpkin. There, I said it and I'm not taking it back and you can't make me! You just can't make me!!     Just kidding there at the end.

This is a great recipe!!  It will certainly grace my table at the holidays!  I changed it up a little by baking it in muffin cups.  I made 16 "cup cakes" that equal 40 cals each.  I found it hard to always cut the larger pie equally, but the cup cakes make it so it is a ready to go treat that is already premeasured.  I think I baked the cupcakes at around 25- 30 mins. 

Original Post by alleyway:

OK gang. There are probably some purists out there who are not going to like this little bit of advice but here goes...always use the canned pumpkin.

I just have to add that the canned pumpkin I buy has only one ingredient: Pumpkin...nothing else in the ingredient list.  I've had both (not by me, I've only used canned) and I like the canned better too!

This recipe sounds good though, yum...I like the idea of the graham crackers too.

~Ree~

Using your own fresh pumpkin isn't as hard as it sounds, and if it's really fresh, the flavor is out of this world.  Canned pumpkin is fine in a pinch.

Not that it's a HUGE deal, but just an FYI.  One cup of splenda has 96 calories, which means each serving (assuming you go with 8) has 92 calories rather than 80.  Still low cal though :)

I tried them last night--they were very good and surprisingly didn't taste low cal at all--I made them the cupcake/ muffin style-- 16 servings portion sized and topped it with cool whip free and a fresh berry--excellent-thanks for sharing--they were very simple to make-my 16 yr old daughter actually did most of the work and she can't cook much at all-- LOL-the whole family enjoyed them :-)

I've never been a big pumpkin fan, but I think I will try these out.  They sound so good, and I will try the muffin tin method.  I'll let you know if I like them :D

I found that when I cooked them in the muffin tin that they were easy to make almost exact similar sized portions- they did take longer than the 25 minutes posted above-I would guess around 35 minutes maybe- tasted just like pie but creamier :-)