Spiced Pumpkin Bread

A wonderful bread that is more of a dessert than bread. Quick to make and a pleasure to eat.

Prepare: 10

Bake: 1

Total Time: 1 10

Servings: 12 slices

Ingredients

1 ½ cups (225g) flour
½ can or 1 cup (218g) pureed pumpkin
¾ cup (150g) sugar
2 large (100g) eggs
⅓ cup (80mL) oil
1 ½ tsp (6g) baking powder
½ tsp (2.5g) salt
1 ½ tsp (3g) cinnamon
1 tsp (2g) ground ginger
½ tsp (1g) allspice

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F (170C.)
Line a 9×5 loaf pan (13x23cm) with parchment or grease and flour.
Stir together flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger and allspice in a small bowl.
In a large bowl, mix together eggs, oil, pumpkin and sugar. Beat in flour mixture until smooth. Pour into loaf pan evenly.
Bake 50-60 minutes or until the top cracks, is golden brown and a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Center of bread should reach between 200F (93C) - 212F (100C.)
Let cool in pan 5 - 10 minutes before removing to wire rack to finish cooling.

Notes

Pumpkin pie spice can be substituted in replace of all the spices listed above. Simply use 2 tsp (4g) pumpkin pie spice. The allspice can be substituted with 1/4 tsp (.25g) each of cloves and nutmeg or 1/2 tsp (.5g) pumpkin pie spice.

Butter may be substituted for the oil in the recipe. Use 1/2 cup (113g) softened butter and beat with sugar using the creaming method.

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