Pumpkin Spice Quick Bread
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup LIBBY'S 100% Pure Pumpkin
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter (we recommend Land O Lakes�), softened
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
Preheat oven to 350� F. Grease 9x5-inch loaf pan.
Combine flour, pumpkin, brown sugar, butter, eggs, spice, baking
soda, salt and baking powder in large mixer bowl. Beat at medium
speed, scraping bowl often for 1 to 2 minutes until well mixed.
Spoon batter into prepared pan.
Bake for 45 to 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center
comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes; remove to wire
rack to cool completely.
*Substitute 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
and 1/4 teaspoon each ground nutmeg and ground cloves for pumpkin
pie spice.
VARIATIONS:
Banana Bread: Prepare quick bread as directed above, substituting
3/4 cup sugar for brown sugar and 1 cup mashed bananas for pumpkin;
omit pumpkin pie spice.
Banana Chocolate Chip Bread: Prepare quick bread as directed above.
Stir 3/4 cup NESTLɮ TOLL HOUSE� Semi-Sweet Chocolate Mini Morsels
and 1 cup mashed banana into batter.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread: Prepare quick bread as directed above.
Stir in 3/4 cup NESTLɮ TOLL HOUSE� Semi-Sweet Chocolate Mini
Morsels into batter.
TIP: Wrap bread in plastic food wrap or aluminum foil. Refrigerate
up to 3 days or freeze up to 3 months. |