Kitchen Witch Thursdays - Pumpkin Bread

One of my favorites, and while of my own creation I can't take all the credit. I know how to make banana bread like the back of my hand, and one day I had a thought if I could do the same with pumpkin. Turn to Google, leaf through about twenty recipes posted around to various places, and viola I made my own by putting together all the common ingredients and experimenting with ratios! So even though this is something you can easily Google and find very similar recipes I figured I'd share my own anyway because I love pumpkin bread <3

You'll Need The Following;

• 3 1/3 cups flour
• 3 cups granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon pumpkin spice
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup cooking oil
• 2/3 cups water (not shown)
• 15 oz canned pumpkin

So first off, preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Mix your wet and dry ingredients in separate bowls and mix them well. You might need a whisk instead of a spoon for the wet stuff because the oil is going to be slightly resistant to mixing with everything else but it just takes some elbow grease.

What I like about this is that most recipes ask you to mix the dry ingredients into the wet, but a lot of what I found is the other way around; slowly mix your wet into your dry. Use a spoon because it'll just gunk up a whisk at first due to the clumps, and continue mixing until everything is just one big wet lump where you can't tell anything apart.

Sadly I'm working with a smaller loaf pan than I am used to in my current living situation and I wasn't aware of just how much this would overflow so if you don't have one of the big loaf pans you'll want to divide this into two pans instead. Make sure they're well greased so the bread will just slide right out when you're done, and bake for 1 hour.

Like I said I wasn't aware of just how small the loaf pan was in comparison to the one I had until this monstrosity came out of the oven so yeah, probably divide this up between two pans and don't make my dumb mistakes. It still tastes good, though!

So once it's done give it time to cool then turn it out of the pan and slice it up. Keep in an airtight container, preferably in the fridge, and reheat as needed or just eat cold because it's not half bad at room temp.

Even if this one came out a bit misshapen I still love it! Tastes great, and is just the kind of treat perfect for this time of year when spring is supposed to have sprung but it's still freezing cold outside most days XD

All pictures here were taken by me specifically for this post. I have been a home cook for over a decade, and any questions or comments about this recipe are encouraged!

If you like this content resteems, upvotes and comments are much appreciated <3