Applesauce Bars

Hi everyone! Hope your day is off to a great start! I've got my dinner cooking away in the crock-pot and I mixed up some Applesauce Bars for my husband to take to work tomorrow for goodie day, they are celebrating the promotion of two co-workers! These bars a very easy to put together and are very moist. My husband prefers that the bars to be refrigerated but I like them room temperature (I like the cream cheese icing to be soft). You can add nuts or leave them out, they taste great either way.

Applesauce Bars

2 cups flour

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup nuts, chopped your favorite

1/4 teaspoon salt

4 eggs, beaten slightly

2 cups applesauce, I use the sweetened kind

1 cup vegetable oil

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Stir in eggs, applesauce, oil and nuts, until well blended. Spread batter into an ungreased 15" x 10" x 1" cookie/baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes. Cool. Frost.

Cream Cheese Frosting

2 - 3 oz. packages cream cheese, room temperature

1/2 cup butter, room temperature

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 pound box of powdered sugar

Cream together the cream cheese and butter; add vanilla. Gradually add powdered sugar until all added and well blended and a spreading consistency. Frost bars. Optional, sprinkle frosted bars with more chopped nuts.

These taste better is made the day before serving.

Hope you give these a try, they are oh so good! Mary

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