Saturday, March 20, 2010

The Great Pumpkin


This yummy bread comes from Jean Pare's Company's Coming series. It's in the Muffins and More book. Company's Coming is a Canadian Cookbook series. I have 4 or 5 of the books and each recipe I try always turns out well.

4 oz softened cream cheese
1/4 cup softened butter or margarine
1 1/4 cups suagar
2 eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 3/4 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (I didn't add these)

Heat oven to 350*. Combine cream cheese, butter & sugar in mixing bowl. Cream together well. Beat in eggs one at a time until blended. Mix in pumpkin.
In another bowl combine the remaining ingredients. Stir until thoroughly mixed. Pour all at once over batter. Stir until just moistened. Spoon into a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan. Bake for 60-70 minutes (until an inserted toothpick comes out clean). Cool 10 minutes in pan. Remove to rack to finish cooling.

6 comments:

teresa said...

oh wow, this sounds and looks absolutely delish!

Patty said...

This would go perfectly with a cream cheese frosting, thanks for posting it looks fantastic!

kanishk said...

it looks great
home jobs without registration

Katy ~ said...

Gosh, this looks so good. I happen to have all the ingredients on hand most of the time. Will definitely have to do this soon.

How's the new babe? And how're you?

Kristen said...

Thanks for the compliments everyone! Katy - things are well with the little one, thanks for asking :o) Cheers!

Anonymous said...

This is my all time favorite recipe for pumpkin loaf. I don't add nuts. It is always perfect and moist. No need for frosting or toppings of any kind.