Thursday, September 30, 2004
With Fall settling in I'm already craving the tastes of gingerbread and pumpkin, homemade soups and turkey, sweet potatoes and ham, homemade caramel and toffee. I can't wait for Halloween and turtlenecks and snow. There's something about the beginning of Fall and the change of seasons that makes home feel so cozy and makes me want to bake and fill the home with all the sweet smells of the holidays. As a result, today I decided to bake me up some Pumpkin Bread. I've been searching for a good recipe and I've finally found The One! So, for those of you who are already craving something Fallish and want a great way to spend a rainy afternoon with the kids, try out this recipe. Hunter and Noah helped me mix it up and I must say, Noah is getting really good at cracking eggs for me--only 1 shell out of 4 eggs cracked! The recipe made one loaf and 18 muffins--we ate the muffins and I'm planning on freezing the loaf for another rainy day. Anyway, it was delicious and we had fun spending the afternoon together--dumping and pouring the ingredients and licking and scraping the bowl.
Pumpkin Spice Bread
3 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1-16oz. can of solid-pack pumpkin
3-1/2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 tsp. ground allspice
1/2 cup water
In a large bowl combine sugar, oil and eggs. Add pumpkin and mix well. Combine dry ingredients; add to the pumpkin mixture alternately with water. Pour into two greased 9-in x 5-in x 3-in loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 60-70 minutes or until bread tests done. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack; cool completely. Yield: 2 loaves.
posted by Shana # 10:32 PM 
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