Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread
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Description
When fall is in the air, can't you just smell a delicious loaf of freshly baked pumpkin bread? Or is that just those of us who dream about pumpkin bread all day? No matter.
Either way, moist and flavorful pumpkin bread is the perfect way to use up the cans of pumpkin puree you stocked up on at the first sign of autumn. And what better recipe to use than this Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread? It's so beloved by members of the Allrecipes community, they have rated it 5 stars over 8,000 times.
Ingredients
- 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- ⅔ cup water
- 3 cups white sugar
- 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
Steps
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger.
- In a separate bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended.
- Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended.
- Pour into the prepared pans.
- Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.