How To Make PSL Bars (Pumpkin Spice Latte Bars)

If you’re keen to skip the text and just jump to my recipe that will tell you how to make PSL bars I honestly won’t blame you. My PSL bars recipe is really, really, good and honestly no one else has ever come up with a good one before. Cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and a dash of cloves combined with all that delicious pumpkin flavor… This was a Fall phenomenon that was just screaming to be made into a bar. Instead of whipped cream on top of your PSL I’m going to top my PSL Bars with white chocolate chips. A touch of rum to round out the flavors and a handful of walnuts and you’ve got your new go-to September snack.

Looking for a gluten-free version of my PSL Bars recipe? Follow this link!

I’m going to do the thing food bloggers aren’t supposed to do anymore and share a personal story now:

When I was in grad school my roommate Tom used to love putting cinnamon in with the coffee grounds on Saturday mornings. It was ‘special Saturday morning coffee.’ A celebratory spin on a daily classic to signify that we had made it through yet another week of 5am alarm clocks (because how else were you going to beat everyone else to the practice rooms to work on your Beethoven?), undergrads whose favorite pastime was to question your authority as a teaching assistant (… had you put the effort into the homework assignment that you put into formulating this complaint we probably wouldn’t be having this conversation), and the never-ending reality that next week there would be yet another major exam you had to prepare for.

Tom was great; that Saturday morning coffee was not. It was the equivalent of salting your afternoon tea. My mouth was so confused by what was going on with that drink that I always just choked it down and smiled politely like the good New-England WASP that my mother raised me to be.

Fast-forward a few years and all the big coffee shops have made a killing stuffing all sorts of spices into their autumnal drinks. My emoji-emotion is honestly this: 🤷🏻‍♂️

Millions of dollars in coffee sales aside, I still prefer to have my coffee sans spices. But guys, I do love pumpkin pie. And I love pumpkin pie spices. There’s something about the shorter days and the cooler nights that makes me crave cinnamon-nutmeg-allspice anything. And if you asked if I wanted a slice of pumpkin pie along with my coffee I would 137% of time answer: Yes.

But sometimes we don’t want an entire pie in one sitting. We just want a cup of coffee and a delicious autumnal snack to go with it.

Creating a pumpkin spice latte bar

I was craving just this the other day and was scouring the internet for a recipe that resembled a PSL bar and was just coming up dry. They’re out there, but ohmygosh they all look bland and boring as can be. You’re going to throw a half-teaspoon of cinnamon in with that pumpkin and call that a “pumpkin spice latte bar?” I call that pumpkin with a dash of cinnamon. Please.

So I made one up.

And guys, they are really good. I mean: really good. You can taste the spices, but you can also taste the pumpkin. They are super soft, and really moist. The walnuts give them a civilized, adult, flair but the little bit of white chocolate on top slams you right back into childhood. I ate four. Lyndon ate six. Our upstair’s neighbor’s two-year-old inhaled one.

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Enjoy! 😀👍🏻🎃

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