Sunday, October 11, 2009

Cream Cheese Pumpkin Bread

Since we seem to be on a pumpkin kick this month, here is another one for the pumpkin cook-a-thon! I've had lots of different types of pumpkin bread before but this one looked yummy because it is actually made with cream cheese. Interesting right?? It's a Paula Deen recipe.

Ingredients:

1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
3 large eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 (15-ounce) can pumpkin
3/4 cup chopped pecans (definitely optional)
3/4 cup raisins (optional)

Directions:- Beat cream cheese and butter until well mixed.
- Add sugar then eggs one at a time.
- In separate bowl, mix flour, powder, soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
- Incorporate into cream cheese mixture slowly.
- Stir in pumpkin and optionals.
- Spread into two greased loaf pans.
- Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

Tips:
Due to my nut allergy of course I left out the nuts-- also not a big fan of raisins. So, I made one loaf plain and I added 3/4 cup mini chocolate chips to the other. YUM!! Chocolate goes with everything right?? Very moist bread!

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