Thursday, October 8, 2009

Pumpkin Gingerbread

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I love Fall!  It's such a beautiful time of year and a great time to be baking.  To celebrate the beginning of Autumn, we're baking pumpkin bread in the bread-baking blog.  And wouldn't you know it, the Artisan Bread Baker's Group on Facebook decided to make Pumpkin Gingerbread this month for the Bread of the Month.  This pumpkin gingerbread is easy and delicious ... a good one to include in this series.

The Bread of the Month is a virtual bread-baking party hosted by Phyl at Of Cabbages & King Cakes.  The party started on October 1st and ends on October 31st. You have a whole month to bake.  That gives you plenty of time to join in the fun. Click here to learn more about the Artisan Bread Bakers.

Here is some of the Fall bounty I got this weekend when I went to Jaemor Farms.  I now have pumpkins and apples all over the place. They go really well with the pumpkin gingerbread.



You might enjoy some of these other Pumpkin Bread Recipes.


Pumpkin Gingerbread
Makes: 2 large loaves

Ingredients:
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 4 eggs
  • 2/3 cup water
  • 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree (I used 2 cups of pumpkin puree that I roasted last Fall)
  • 2 teaspoons ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon ground allspice
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Directions:

Make sure you have all of your ingredients in place (mis en place).Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).  Lightly grease two 9 x 5-inch loaf pans.

In a large mixing bowl, combine sugar, oil and eggs; beat until smooth. Add water and beat until well blended.



Stir in pumpkin, ginger, allspice and cinnamon.





In a medium bowl, combine flour, soda, salt, and baking powder.



Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and blend just until all ingredients are mixed.




Divide batter between prepared pans.



Bake in preheated oven until toothpick comes out clean, about 1 hour. Remove the pans from the oven and let the loaves cool in the pan for 10 minutes.  Then place them on a cooling rack to finish cooling before slicing or serving.



Once the loaves have cooled a bit, you can slice the bread and eat it.  That's the best part!  Enjoy!



Thanks for visiting The Bread Experience blogWe hope you'll join us next time!

Happy Baking!
Cathy

Here are some additional Fall bread recipes and resources:

4 comments:

  1. Great write up. And thanks for the shout out! Does this count as my entry in the Pumpkin Recipe contest?!?
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  2. Absolutely! I'll enter your name in the drawing. Good luck and thanks for the recipe. The pumpkin gingerbread is delish!
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  3. I wonder if this recipe could be lightened up just a bit - perhaps substituting applesauce for 1/2 the oil? I love the idea of this bread, but I'm looking to keep the calories down a bit. What do you think? Could it work?
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  4. Substituting applesauce for part of the oil sounds like a great idea. I haven't made this particular bread in awhile so maybe I'll try that myself.
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