Pumpkin Bread Recipe

Again the pumpkin bread I made this past weekend was quite divine. The recipe came with the Nordic Ware pan I purchased. Here it is:

Pumpkin Bread
1 (16 oz.) can pumpkin
1 3/4 cups sugar (I used baker's sugar)
2/3 cup vegetable oil (I used canola)
1 tsp vanilla
4 eggs
3 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/8 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup raisins or dried cranberries (I did not use either)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour pan (I used Pam); set aside. In large bowl, combine pumpkin, sugar, oil, vanilla and eggs; blend well. Stir in remaining ingredients, except raisins. Mix until blended. Stir in raisins. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 65 - 75 minutes, until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from pan and cool completely.

Making Pumpkin Bread

Made pumpkin bread today. First attempt of the season. Here's the step-by-step:

1.   Pumpkin puree mixed together with sugar, canola oil, vanilla extract, and eggs.

2.   Added flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and baking powder.

3.  Poured in my cool new loaf pan.

4.  Actually filled the pan too full. It rose way too high.

5.  Cut off the top of the loaf and found there was a part that wasn't quite done.

6.   Baked for about 10 more minutes.

7.   The finished product.

8.   With butter. Yum.  It turned out quite well if I do say so myself.

Pumpkin Loaf Pan

It's been a while since I've made pumpkin bread. I came across this loaf pan today and will try to bake some up tomorrow. Dale does love himself some pumpkin bread. So do I.