Pumpkin Crunch Bars - VeryVera

Ingredients

• ½ pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
• 2 c unbleached all-purpose flour
• One 8-ounce package cream cheese, at room temperature
• One 15-ounce can pumpkin puree
• 8 tbsp. (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
• 1 ½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• One 1-pound box (4 cups) confectioners’ sugar
• ½ teaspoon ground mace
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
• 3 large eggs