maleficent

it's a birthday in the office tomorrow and one of the guys requested my not so world famous but oh so tasty pumpkin bread with no candles on it...


Pumpkin bread
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups pumpkin (don't use jackolantern pumpkin, that's not as good as a sugar pumpkin or baking pumpkin-- or be lazy like me and used canned pumpkin)
2 eggs at room temperature
2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
dash of salt
1 cup milk
1 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup dried cranberries or raisins

Topping
mix together:
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

Cream together butter, sugar and pumpkin until smooth. Add eggs and blend well. Mix dry ingredients together. Add dry flour mixture alternately with milk to the egg mixture. Add gently the nuts and cranberries. It is important not to overmix.

Prepare the loaf pans with either butter and flour (or use that baking pam stuff- with the flour already in it - it's great)

Put mix into loaf pans (this usually makes 2 -3 loaf smallish loaves) and sprinkle top with sugar/cinnamon mixture.

bake until knife or toothpick or piece of spaghetti comes out clean - Depending on the oven and the weather - it could be 25 minutes it could be 45 minutes or longer...

This also makes a mighty fine muffin..

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