HAPPY FALL YA'LL! Recipe- Pumpkin Bread

Fall is in full swing and what better to spend a Sunday afternoon than filling the house with the aroma of fresh baked homemade pumpkin bread! This recipe is SUPER easy and SUPER tasty.

Ingredients

1 cup of margarine 

3 cups of sugar

3 eggs

1 tea spoon of vanilla extract

3 cups all purpose flour

1 table spoon of baking powder

1 tea spoon of baking soda

1 table spoon of cinnamon

1/2 tea spoon of all spice

1/2 tea spoon of cloves

1 tea spoon of nutmeg

1 can 15oz can of pure pumpkin
Brown sugar to sprinkle on top

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees and spray 2 glass bread baking dishes with cooking spray. Be generous. 

2. Cream the margarine and sugar together until well blended.

3. Add eggs one at a time and blend well. Add vanilla extract

4. Combine all dry ingredients in a separate bowl... mixing well.

5. Add dry mix to wet mix. Blend JUST until mixture is moist. DO NOT OVER BEAT.

6. Add can of pumpkin. Once again, blend until mixture is well mixed. DO NOT OVER BEAT.

7. Add pumpkin mixture to glass bread baking dishes. Fill to about 3/4 of the way up. 

**You may have some left over mix. I baked mine in one glass bread dish and one dark non stick bread pan which is a little bigger than the glass one. In my opinion, this bread baked better in the glass dish. See picture below.

8. Sprinkle some brown sugar on top.

9. Bake at 350 for 45-60 minutes. 

**All ovens bake different. It took 55 minutes for my bread to bake. To tell if it is done... poke the middle and sides with a tooth pick. It is ready when tooth pick comes out clean.

10. Remove from oven and let cool for 15 minutes on a wire rack. 

11. Gently invert the bread over the wire rack and let the bread slowly pull away from the glass dish.

12. Gently pick up the bread with both hands and turn back over so the top is up right. Let cool for another 45 minutes and then ENJOY! Don't wrap up until it has completely cooled. I like to keep mine out on the counter at room temp. Putting bread in the fridge can dry it out!

This picture goes along with step #7. The loaf on the left is the one baked in the glass dish... the one of the right is the loaf baked in the dark bread pan. The bread sticked to the bottom of the non stick pan even though I sprayed it also with cooking spray. From now on I will only cook this recipe in glass bread baking dishes.

Tis the season

Have a great week everyone!