The other day at the grocery store I spotted a bag of candy corn and just had to have it. Lately I have been kind of craving fall, the weather, the colors, the smells and of course the food! I also brought home a can of pumpkin that day and tucked it away in the pantry. Well if you stop by here often then you already know I am obsessed with bread, especially breakfast breads.
I wanted to try something I new, there I said it… I had NEVER baked with pumpkin before. I don’t like pumpkin pie, but I know pumpkin is super nutritious, so I pumpkin bread it was. I scanned a few cookbooks and did a web search, what I decided on was kind of a combination of a few recipes. With a wish of luck and a lot of ingredients, I am pleased to admit the result is quite tasty; a fragrant, sweet breakfast bread worthy of your attention. I highly recommend giving pumpkin a try if you haven’t before. I think you’ll enjoy this delicious, sweet pumpkin bread studded with chocolate and cranberries, happy baking!
Pumpkin Bread
Prep
Cook
Total
Yield 1 large loaf
Ingredients
- 7 oz. pumpkin
- 1 egg
- 1/3 c applesauce
- 1/4 c water
- 1/2 c brown sugar
- 1/2 c honey
- 1 c whole wheat flour
- 1/2 c all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp ground cloves
- 1/8 tsp ground ginger
- 1/3 c dried cranberries
- 1/4 c chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350º and prepare a large loaf pan with baking spray.
- In a large bowl combine the pumpkin, egg, applesauce, water, brown sugar and honey.
- In a separate bowl whisk together the flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and ginger.
- Add the dry ingredients into the wet and stir until combined, fold in the chocolate and cranberries. Spread the batter into the loaf pan and bake for 45-50 minutes.
- Cool in the pan 10 minutes, remove to wire rack and cool completely.
Notes
Recipe adapted from Best Pumpkin Bread by scoochmaroo on instructables
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This is a sweet pumpkin bread and it looks great!
Interesting recipe that sounds delicious 🙂
It really is delicious, I’ve actually made 2 batches of it now, I can’t stop eating it!
Yum!!! I’ve never had pumpkin bread before but it sure looks yummy!
Thanks so much for sharing this at The DIY Dreamer… From Dream To Reality!
I love the healthy ingredients in this recipe – honey, whole wheat flour. Thanks for sharing.