DealDash Recipes: Pumpkin Bread

Pumpkin bread is delicious, fast, and easy to make. It’s perfect for the fall season.

This is the perfect time to make pumpkin bread. Everything this month is pumpkin spice, from coffee to candles – why not bread? Pumpkin bread is very versatile, you can use it as an accompaniment to your soup at lunch, or you can spread a little vanilla frosting on it and it makes a wonderful dessert. Speaking of dessert, you can make this pumpkin bread in a muffin or cupcake tin and frost and decorate them as well.

Ingredients:

• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cup canola oil
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 2 cups solid pack pumpkin puree (You can use fresh or canned)
• 2/3 cup water
• 1/4 cup raisins or craisins (optional)
• 1/2 cup crushed walnuts (optional)
• Vanilla frosting (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease two loaf pans.
2. In a medium-sized mixing bowl, combine all dry (except sugars) ingredients.
3. In a large bowl with a hand (or stand) mixer, blend sugar, oil and eggs. Stir in pumpkin. Slowly blend the dry ingredient mixture into pumpkin mixture. While blending the mixture add water incrementally. Pour the batter into two prepared loaf pans.
4. Bake at 350 degrees F oven for 90 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes before removing from the pans.

I hope that you enjoy this pumpkin bread! If you are not a fan of pumpkin you can always substitute zucchini or any other squash you desire. If you really want to get creative you can use half pumpkin and half zucchini. Delicious!

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