Happy first day of Fall! My favorite series of seasons has finally arrived! I LOVE fall and winter! I love spring and summer, too, but there’s just something about those crisp mornings, leaves under your boots, scarves, warm drinks, pea coats, snowflakes falling outside your window…you can’t beat it! 🙂
This recipe is one of my all time favorites. It’s from allrecipes.com, and the first time I made it years ago, I didn’t alter a thing. Let me tell you, it was DELICIOUS! But, these days, I have a hard time justifying eating something that has a CUP of oil and THREE cups of sugar in it…eek!
I’m a firm believer that you should enjoy what you eat, and for me, that means there’s more to food than just fuel for the body. I want to be mindful of what I’m putting in my body, but I also want to enjoy my food, and I want it to taste good, too! Cooking and baking are a relaxing, fun experience for me anyway, so it’s even better when what I’m making comes out extra delicious AND healthy(ier).
SO – here’s the recipe from allrecipes.com, modified a bit to be a little healthier, but still just as tasty! Note: I up the pumpkin spices in everything pumpkin I make (I like it spicy!), so feel free to decrease the amount of cloves and cinnamon if you prefer yours to be less intense!
PUMPKIN EVERYTHING comin’ right up…I LOVE FALL! What are your favorite fall recipes?
Autumn Pumpkin Bread
Ingredients
- 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
- 2 eggs, 3 egg whites
- 1/4 C vegetable oil
- 3/4 C no sugar added applesauce
- 1/2 C white sugar
- 1/4 C honey
- 2/3 C water
- 3 1/2 C all purpose flour
- 2 t baking soda
- 1 1/2 t salt
- 1 1/2 t ground cinnamon
- 1 t ground nutmeg
- 3/4Â t ground cloves
- 1/4 t ground ginger
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 7×3 inch loaf pans.
- In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, applesauce, water, honey, and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.
- Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Enjoy!
every day with mk 