Easy Pumpkin Bread: King Arthur Flour 9/13/13 2:45 PM

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Easy Pumpkin Bread

Whenever we have a company gathering, this pumpkin bread is one of the

first things to disappear. Super-moist and packed with flavor, it can be
made into a simple pumpkin loaf; or enhanced with chocolate chips
and/or nuts. Or raisins. Or cinnamon chips. Or...

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1 cup vegetable oil

2 2/3 cups granulated sugar
4 large eggs
2 cups (or one 15-ounce can) pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
2/3 cup water
3 1/3 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour Recipe summary
1/2 teaspoon baking powder Hands-on time:
2 teaspoons baking soda 10 mins. to 15 mins.
1 1/2 teaspoons salt Baking time:
1 teaspoon nutmeg 60 mins. to 1 hrs 20 mins.
1 teaspoon vanilla extract Total time:
1 hrs 10 mins. to 1 hrs 35 mins.
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans, optional
Yield:
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips, optional 2 loaves
coarse white sugar for sprinkling on top, optional
Tips from our bakers
Directions Can you use your own homemade
1) Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease two 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" loaf pans puréed pumpkin? Sure. Just be
(if you're making the plain version of the bread); two 9" x 5" loaf pans (if aware that it'll probably be thinner
you're adding chocolate chips and nuts); or one of each, if you're making than canned pumpkin, so you'd
one plain loaf, and one loaf with chips and nuts. want to add a bit more flour.
Results may vary...
2) In a large bowl, beat together the oil, sugar, eggs, pumpkin, and water.
Want to add a simple icing? Just
3) Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and vanilla, before serving, drizzle with a
stirring to combine. mixture of 1 cup confectioners' or
glazing sugar, 2 tablespoons
4) Mix in the chips and nuts, if you're using them. To make one loaf with melted butter, and 1 tablespoon
chips/nuts, one loaf without, divide the batter in half. Leave one half milk.
plain, and add 3/4 cup chips and 1/2 cup nuts to the other half. How about making gift loaves?
5) Spoon the batter into the prepared pans. Sprinkle the tops of the This recipe makes eight 3" x 5"
loaves with coarse sparkling sugar, if desired. loaves, with the addition of the
chips and nuts. Bake the loaves
6) Bake the bread for 60 to 80 minutes, or until a cake tester or toothpick for about 45 to 60 minutes; start
inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean; and that same tester testing at 45 minutes, and remove
inserted about 1/2" into the top of the loaf doesn't encounter any totally from the oven when a toothpick
unbaked batter. inserted into the center of one of
the loaves comes out free of
7) Remove the bread from the oven, and cool it on a rack. When it's crumbs.
completely cool, wrap it well in plastic wrap, and store it overnight before

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serving. Variation: substitute diced

crystallized ginger (mini diced
Yield: 2 loaves. ginger), golden raisins, or dried
cranberries for the chocolate
chips and/or nuts.

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