Pumpkin Bread
Lightly scented with warming pumpkin spice, this old-fashioned pumpkin bread comes together in minutes with just a few ingredients.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- 16 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 15 oz pumpkin puree ($1.99)
- 2 cups sugar* ($0.78)
- 2/3 cup oil ($0.53)
- 4 eggs ($1.10)
- 1 tsp vanilla ($0.72)
- 2/3 cup water ($0.00)
- 4 cups sifted flour ($0.49)
- 1/2 tsp baking powder ($0.08)
- 1 tsp baking soda ($0.02)
- 2 tsp salt ($0.08)
- 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice ($0.10)
- 1 tsp butter, for greasing ($0.05)
Instructions
- 1
Place a rack in the middle of your oven and preheat it to 350°F. Grease 2 loaf pans with butter. In a medium bowl, mix the sifted flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin spice.
- 2
In a large bowl, mix the pumpkin puree, sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla, and water.
- 3
Add the dry ingredients on top of the wet ingredients.
- 4
Mix the dry ingredients lightly into the wet, just until a batter forms. Small lumps are ok.
- 5
Split the batter between the two greased loaf pans and smooth the top.
- 6
Bake for about an hour, or until a knife inserted into the crack in the loaf's top crust hits the bottom of the pan and comes out clean.