Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients

Recipe makes one loaf

  • 1 sugar pumpkin (to be made into 2 cups of pumpkin puree)

  • 2 cups of flour

  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

  • 3 teaspoons of Trader Joe’s Pumpkin Pie Spice (or 1 teaspoon each of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg)

  • 1.5 sticks (3/4 cup) unsalted butter, softened

  • 2 cups of sugar

  • 2 large eggs

  • Olive oil for greasing pan

Directions

Pumpkin Puree:

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees

  • Cut pumpkin in half (from top to bottom)

  • Scrape out the insides and dispose (save the seeds, you can bake them as a snack!)

  • Place open-side-down on a cookie sheet

  • Bake in oven for about 45 mins to 1 hour (cook time depends on the size of the pumpkin)

  • Remove from oven when skin is darkened and beginning to lift off of the pumpkin filling

  • Remove skin (I like to lift it off with a fork while the pumpkin is still hot)

  • Break up the pumpkin in the cookie sheet while cooling before transferring to a medium-large bowl

  • Mash with a potato masher, and set aside for later!

Pumpkin Bread:

  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees

  • Lightly grease a 9x5 bread loaf pan with olive oil

  • Whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and Pumpkin Pie Spice in a medium-large bowl

  • Blend the butter and sugar on medium speed in an electric mixing bowl

  • Beat the eggs in one at a time, and continue mixing for a few minutes until fluffy

  • Add 2 cups of pumpkin puree!

  • Switch the mixer to low, and add flour mixture from the other bowl

  • Pour or scoop the blended mixture into the loaf pan

  • Bake for approximately 70 minutes

  • Let cool, remove from pan, and enjoy!

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