Pumpkin Bread

Auntie Megan had fun cooking with Haley this week!  The girls made a delicious pumpkin bread recipe.Ingredients:

1 -15 ounce can pumpkin

1 2/3 cups sugar

2/3 cups canola oil

2 teaspoons vanilla

4 eggs

3 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 cup pecans or walnuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Spray 1 large loaf pan or 2 medium loaf pans with cooking spray.

Place pumpkin, sugar, oil, vanilla and eggs in a large mixing bowl.  Mix with an electric mixer until combined.

Mix dry ingredients in another bowl: flour, baking soda, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and cinnamon.

Combine the wet and dry ingredients plus the nuts.

Pour into loaf pans and bake 50 minutes to 1 hour until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Cool on baking racks before removing from the pans.

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Coat 1 large loaf pan or 2 medium loaf pans with cooking spray.  Mix together in a large bowl; pumpkin, sugar, oil, vanilla and eggs.  Combine the dry ingredients in a separate bowl.  Mix the two together and add the nuts.   Pour into loaf pans and bake 50 minutes to 1 hour until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.  Remove from the oven and cool on racks before removing from the pans.