What bookclub is eating tomorrow...

It’s pumpkin time! Great foods can be made with pumpkins. One easy, delicious dessert is a pumpkin bar! It can be changed up by adding some chopped nuts, chopped apples, dried cranberries, or my favorite, chocolate chips.  The original recipe calls for 1 cup oil, but if you want a lighter version, substitute half the oil with applesauce. The end result will be the same, just less calories, but still the same moist bar. A little less sugar could be added, but being this is an old recipe when people ate and cared less about the sugar and fats and just enjoyed their food but dropped dead at the ripe ole age of 50, it calls for quite a bit. I would just use 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2  cup white sugar. ( I’d like to bail out at the ripe ole age of 96 or so). I also use fresh pumpkin but canned pumpkin works perfectly without the added work. This recipe also works great with zucchini instead of the pumpkin, using 2 cups shredded zucchini.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bars
1 1/2 cups unbleached flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
4 eggs
2 cups cooked pumpkin
1 1/2 cups sugar (this is where I made the change to 1/2 c. brown and 1/2 cup white sugar)
1 cup oil (can use 1/2 cup oil and 1/2 cup applesauce)
2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips, nuts, or dried cranberries or raisins
1. Combine the 1st 5 ingredients. Set aside.
2. Mix together eggs, pumpkin, sugar, and oil. Beat well.
3. Stir in chocolate chips.
4. Spread in an ungreased 15 x 10 pan. Bake in a 350* oven for aobut 25-30 minutes.

Found this recipe today at http://www.cookwomanfood.com/2009/10/11/pumpkin-chocolate-chip-bars/
I think I will make it for book club tomorrow.  Yummy