Pumpkin Bread

This is a tasty and easy pumpkin bread recipe for Thanksgiving and the winter months. It’s classic and gives you that cozy holiday feeling. It is typically made with walnuts but you can spice it up any way you’d like. We suggest chocolate chips, raisins, cranberries, or your favorite nuts. We love to have this fresh and hot out of the oven because the bread is still so soft and fluffy and the chocolate chips are little molten sweet spots. So delicious and definitely elicits that snuggly winter feeling that the holidays tend to evoke in us.

Here is the recipe to holiday joy to share with your friends and family!

PREPARATION

1. 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour two 9x5x3-inch loaf pans. Beat sugar and oil in large bowl to blend. Mix in eggs and pumpkin. Sift flour, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, salt and baking powder into another large bowl. Stir into pumpkin mixture in 2 additions. Mix in walnuts, if desired.
   2. Divide batter equally between prepared pans. Bake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Transfer to racks and cool 10 minutes. Using sharp knife, cut around edge of loaves. Turn loaves out onto racks and cool completely.