pumpkin bread…

It seems I just can’t get enough pumpkin this fall! 

I love this yummy pumpkin bread recipe, which was given to me by my cute friend,

Angela…hopefully she doesn’t care if I share it here.

Pumpkin Swirl Bread

Ingredients:

1 C pumpkin

1/2 C vegetable oil

2 eggs

1 1/2 C sugar

1 2/3 C flour

1/2 t salt

1/2 t cinnamon

1/2 t ground cloves

1 t baking soda

**MIx together pumpkin, oil, and eggs.  Mix together sugar, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and cloves.  Stir into pumpkin mixture, until ingredients are moistened. Set aside and mix filling.

Filling:

8 oz. cream cheese

1/3 C sugar

1 T flour

1 egg

2 t orange zest

**To make filling:  beat together cream cheese, sugar, and flour.  Stir in egg and orange zest. 

**Grease and flour two loaf pans (7 1/2” x 3”).  Pour 1/4 of pumpkin batter into each pan.  Divide filling mixture and carefully spread over batter in pans.  Place remaining batter over filling.

**Bake at 325 for 1 hour (or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean)

 

Do you have a favorite pumpkin recipe?  I’d love to try more recipes if you’re willing to share!