Recipe: Pumpkin Bread
It is funny how you tend to crave certain foods at certain times of the year. Lately, I’ve been wanting something with pumpkin, and pumpkin bread just sounded good to me. Here’s a recipe I came across that I wanted to share. I am going to try it this weekend. Oh…and I will definitely be adding the chocolate chips!
Pumpkin Bread
Makes approximately 12 muffins, 3 small loaves, or 1 large loaf
1 3/4 cup (1 15 oz. can) pureed pumpkin
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
3 eggs
3-4 cups all-purpose unbleached flour
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 cups chopped walnuts or chocolate chips
Preheat the oven to 350.
Combine the pumpkin, brown sugar, butter, and eggs and mix until creamy. In a separate bowl, combine all of the dry ingredients, except the nuts, or chocolate chips. Mix 3 cups of the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, then add as much of the 4th cup as necessary to achieve the proper consistency (moist, but thick enough to stand a spoon in). Add the nuts, or chocolate chips and stir in.
Spoon the batter into greased muffin tins, or bread pans. Bake on the center rack, until a toothpick poked into the center comes out dry, 25 to 30 minutes for muffins, or small loaves, or 50 minutes to 1 hour for a full size loaf.
Enjoy!
Barb
Posted in Cooking in your kitchen on October 10th, 2008 by Barb | | 0 Comments
