Pumpkin Spice Bread

Printable Recipe

Ingredients

• 3 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 4 eggs
• 1 (15 oz) can pumpkin (or 2 cups homemade puree)
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 1 t baking soda
• 1 t salt
• 2 t cinnamon
• 2 t nutmeg
• 1/2 t baking powder
• 1 t ground cloves
• 1 t ground allspice
• 1/2 cup water

Cooking Directions

1. Combine the sugar, oil and eggs.
2. Add pumpkin and mix well.
3. Combine the dry ingredients; add to the pumpkin mixture alternately with water, beating well after each addition.
4. Pour into two greased loaf pans.
5. Bake at 350 for 60-65 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
6. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan.
7. For muffins, bake for 25 minutes. Makes ~36 muffins.

Holly's Notes:
The original recipe came from The Amish Family Cookbook.  I had just put up several batches of pumpkin puree and my husband asked for some pumpkin bread to take to his Home Teaching families for church.  I figured I'd try a new recipe since I really don't have a tried or true pumpkin bread recipe.  I searched several cookbooks before finding this recipe.  It came together easily and smelled absolutely divine while it was baking.  It was delicious, although the second time I made it, I did a 1/2 cup applesauce and 1/2 cup oil instead of the original 1 cup of oil and I doubled the spices and I did muffins instead.  We prefer the muffins to the bread and the doubled spices was perfect.  This version of the recipe reflects those changes.