Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) Butter, melted
  • 1 cup White Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 1/2 cup White All-Purpose Flour
  • 1 tsp Baking Soda
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1/2 cup Sour Cream
  • 1 1/4 cup Pumpkin (If canned, NOT pumpkin pie filling!)
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp Nutmeg
  • 1/2 tsp Ginger
  • 1/2 tsp Clove

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Grease a 9″x5″ loaf pan.
  3. In a large bowl, beat together melted butter and sugar until incorporated
  4. Add eggs and vanilla to butter/sugar mixture. Mix well.
  5. Mix pumpkin and sour cream into wet ingredients.
  6. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, spices, and salt.
  7. Stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients until smooth.
  8. Pour into loaf pan and bake for 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean.
  9. Cool in pan for 10 minutes before removing and transferring to a wire cooling rack.

NOTES:

This pumpkin bread recipe was adapted from one for banana bread; to make banana bread with this recipe, simply omit the spices (or keep for extra flavor) and replace the 1 1/4 cup Pumpkin with 2 ripe bananas.

If so desired, 1/2 cup chopped nuts may be added to the wet ingredients before mixing in the dry ingredients.