Even though "fall" isn't really a thing here in Jakarta, I am still craving fall foods... pumpkin, kale, apples, cranberries, etc. Sadly, only some of those things are available here (haven't seen kale or cranberries yet, but I am hoping some pop up in the grocery store soon!). Luckily, pumpkins are available, both fresh (in the form of kabocha squash) and in canned form.
Needing a dessert for a BBQ we were invited to, I made these pumpkin bars with white chocolate chunks using the canned pumpkin I bought (although I switched out the white sugar for brown). Quite easy to make, quite tasty, and quite a big hit at the BBQ, but texturally they didn't turn out quite as I had hoped they would. They were billed as blondies, which in my mind indicates that they should be dense and brownie-like, but these were much cakier than expected. Not sure how to fix that, but also not sure it needs fixing, as these were pretty popular as is.
