ChefMD's Summer Picnic Dessert: Pumpkin Pecan Squares

Filed in archive Recipes on July 8, 2010

ChefMD's Pumpkin Pecan Squares

Here's a dessert from ChefMD that is low in sugar and high in Vitamin C that you can bring to a family picnic this summer: Pumpkin Pecan Squares.

Ingredients:

2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
A pinch of stevia extract white powder*
1 teaspoon each: baking soda and baking powder
½ teaspoon each: salt, cinnamon, ground ginger
¼ teaspoon ground allspice
2 large egg whites
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin
¾ cup canned lite coconut milk (well shaken before measuring)
½ cup chopped pecans, toasted

*Stevia is a no-calorie herbal sweetener that is 30 times sweeter than sugar.

Preparation:

Heat oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, combine flour, stevia, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger and allspice; mix well. Combine egg whites, pumpkin and coconut milk in a medium bowl; mix well.

Add to dry ingredients; mix gently. Stir in pecans. Spoon batter into a greased or sprayed 13 x 9-inch baking pan.

Bake 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Transfer to a wire cooling rack. Cut into squares.

Serve warm or at room temperature.

Makes 16 servings. 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice may replace the cinnamon, ginger and allspice.