These No Bake Pumpkin Brownies will knock your socks off and impress your entire family! And they are much easier to make than you think!
No Bake Pumpkin Brownies with Chocolate Icing
Ingredients
- Brownies
- 1 1/2 cup walnuts
- 30 dates pitted
- 3/4 cup canned pumpkin
- 1 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- To make your own Pumpkin Pie Spice
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger or ⅛ tsp fresh grated ginger
- 1/8 tsp Gound Nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp ground clove
- Icing
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 avocado
- 3/4 cup honey
- 1 pinch sea salt
Instructions
- In a food processor combine walnuts, dates, pumpkin, and pumpkin pie spice and pulse until it forms a ball.
- Scrape out and press into glass dish.
- Add cocoa powder, avocado, honey, and sea salt to food processor and mix on high until smooth.
- Scrape out icing and spread on top on pumpkin brownies.
Yummy! What about if you are sensitive to walnuts though, Trader Joes has some almond meal and cashew meal, will those do for a replacement?
Also, how large of an avocado works for icing…thanks again for great resources!
You can certainly substitute almond or cashew meal if you’re sensitive. Pecans work really well too if you can tolerate them!
Oh, and I would use one medium sized, sort of soft avocado :)
Yikes: dates AND honey? Waaaay too much sugar. Natural and organic yes, but sugar impact will be high. Combine that with other carbs (translation “sugar”) that folks eat on the holiday and it’s a huge sugar spike. I would use Lakanto or stevia, but that would change the ratio of liquid. Love the pumpkin, cocoa and walnuts idea though.
These are meant to be a special holiday treat. A little goes a long way. You can always substitute ingredients (or try a different dessert recipe with no honey) if you’re trying to eat less sugar.
Dates and honey are sweet but also very healthy for you. This is a dessert after all. No complaints here. This was fabulous.
Greetings from the UK and thanks for the lovely recipe. May I ask you a favour: what is your view on DNA testing for HLA DQ1 & DQ3 as a way of predicting gluten sensitivity and ultimately autoimmune disease?
This recipe is absolutely amazing. I have found that depending on the texture of the brownies, if you add more pumpkin or more nuts you can put this in the freezer for 20-30 minutes to help it solidify. The icing is out of this world- who would guess that a chocolate icing with 3 real food ingredients could pack all the flavor- It is now my go-to for baked treats. Thanks for this amazing recipe.