Holiday food gifts: pumpkin bread recipe
Homemade food gifts are a wonderful way to remember teachers, crossing guards, co-workers, and others when you want to say thank you at the holidays. One of my favorite homemade food gifts to give around the holidays is mini pumpkin bread loaves. This recipe makes six 5x3 inch loaves.- 1 cup of canola oil
- 3 cups of sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups fresh or canned pumpkin
- 2/3 cup water
- 3 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground allspice
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 cup raisins
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
- Grease and flour (or use non-stick spray) six 5x3 inch loaf pans
- In a large bowl, mix together sugar, oil and eggs
- Stir in pumpkin and water
- In a separate bowl mixed together flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder and all the spices
- Add the flour mixture to the pumpkin mixture and combine completely
- Gently stir in the *raisins
- Pour evenly into the six prepared pans
- Place pans on a cookie sheet to make it easy to put in and out of oven
- Bake for 45-50 minutes
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Comments
As a frequent baker who loves to prepare delicious and nutritious baked goods for my family, I was stunned to see the amount of oil in this pumpkin bread recipe and the number of eggs. There is absolutely no reason to include so much oil (fat and cholesterol) when there are many healthy and tasty ingredients that create a moist and tasty bread. I would cut the oil back by half and add a half cup of applesauce, along with using eggbeaters equivalent to 2 eggs (which is 1/2 cup) and skip the.... More
looking forward to trying the recipe.
This recipe rocks! My kids don't like raisins, so I substituted...chocolate chips. :)
Thanks for the great info. I'll be back.
I never thought of putting chocolate chips in pumpkin bread. I'm sure my boys would be all over it.
