Pumpkin and caramel. Why have I never tried this combination before? It was perfect. You really need to try these flavors out together.

As you can probably tell from all my fall and holiday flavored recipes, I really love this time of year. Especially the flavors that come with it. I pretty much use pumpkin all year long, but I some how use it a little more this time of the year.

I used caramel extract in these blondie bars to give them a really good caramel flavor without all the sugar and calories of real caramel. If you do not have caramel extract, you could sub for butter extract or vanilla extract and they will still taste amazing. I got my caramel extract from Walmart, most grocery stores will sell it.

The pumpkin flavor was helped by some pumpkin spice baking chips I found at the store. They were actually really good. I am glad I found them. You can never have enough baking chips.

I kind of just had to wing it for the caramel sauce that I drizzled on top. It was just 3 ingredients. Confectioners powdered stevia, sugar free maple syrup, and caramel extract. Just mix and drizzle on top of the bars. It wasn’t as authentic as a real caramel sauce, but it still tasted pretty dang good.

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