Fruit Pumpkin Bread Recipes

HOLIDAY PUMPKIN BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 7 x 3 inch loaf pans.
• Mix oil, sugar, and eggs together in a large bowl. Mix in pumpkin puree and water. Stir together flour, soda, baking powder, salt, and spices. Add to the pumpkin mixture, and mix until just combined. Stir in nuts and raisins. Divide batter into prepared pans.
• Bake for 1 hour. Cool on wire racks.

FRUIT-NUT PUMPKIN BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat the sugar, pumpkin, oil, eggs and vanilla until well blended. Combine the flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and cloves; gradually beat into pumpkin mixture until blended. Fold in the walnuts, raisins and cranberries., Transfer to two greased 9x5-in. loaf pans. Bake at 350° for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks., For spread, place cranberries in a small bowl; add boiling water. Let stand for 5 minutes; drain. In a small bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Beat in cranberries and walnuts until blended. Serve with bread.

PUMPKIN BREAD WITH FRUIT TOPPING

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until crumbly, about 2 minutes. Beat in the eggs, pumpkin and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, ginger, nutmeg, baking soda and cloves; add to the butter mixture just until blended., Transfer to three greased 5-3/4x3x2-in. loaf pans. Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. , Transfer loaves to a cutting board; cut into 1/2-in. slices. Place cut side down on ungreased baking sheets. Bake for 5-10 minutes on each side or until lightly browned and firm. Remove to wire racks to cool. , For topping, in a small saucepan, combine the pie filling, raisins, cranberries, molasses and spices. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Combine cornstarch and apple cider until smooth; stir into apple mixture. Return to a boil; cook for 1-2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from the heat; cool. Serve with toast.

FRUIT & PUMPKIN BREAD

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack so that the top of a loaf pan will be in the middle of the oven and heat the oven to 350.
• Grease two 8.5 x 4.5 loaf pans.
• Combine pumpkin, sugar, applesauce, vanilla, and eggs.
• Stir in spices and salt.
• Combine flour, baking powder, and baking soda, and stir into wet ingredients.
• Blend in nuts, raisins, and cranberries.
• Pour batter into loaf pans (While this could make 1 large loaf; it's unwieldy and doesn't cook well).
• Bake 50-60 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool 10 minutes in pans, them remove from pans to finish cooling.