Today I set aside to Bake and Blog. Tomorrow I am planning on dropping off loaves of Pumpkin Bread to some current clients, so today I am staying home to bake up a couple of batches. They take a long time to bake, so it's perfect for sitting at my computer and blogging. I am not going to visit around the blogosphere today, it's a day for me to Focus on writing articles!
Baking needs focus too. A few years ago while making Pumpkin Bread to send to my Dad for Christmas I decided to multi-task and chat long distance to my sister while mixing up the batter...bad idea! After putting the loaf pans filled with batter in the oven to bake, still chatting away with my sister, I began to clean up and put away my ingredients including the large glass jar of flour....
Hey...did I put flour in the batter? Whooops! Out come the pans with the very fluid batter, back into the mixing bowl and NOW the missing 3 and 1/3 cups of flour! Wash out the loaf pans, re-grease and flour them then scoop the now properly mixed batter back into the pans and settle the pans into the oven for the next 1 hour and 20 minuets. My sister was laughing at me the whole time! Focus on Baking when mixing the ingredients!
Pumpkin Bread: (Original version from my best friend Jacquie, this is my tweaked version)
Mix together in a large bowl:
* 4 eggs
* 3 cups of sugar
* 1 cup of oil
* 1 can of 15oz Pumpkin Puree
* 6 Tablespoons of Pumpkin Pie Spice (or even 2 extra)
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 2 teaspoons of baking soda dissolved in 2/3 cup of water (fairly certain I have forgotten this step too!)
Add:
* 3 & 1/3 cups of flour...very important! : )
* 2 cups of walnut pieces
* 2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate pieces (one 12oz bag)
Mix well and scoop batter into 3 loaf pans that have been greased and floured.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean.
Cool, and enjoy!
Merry Happy Christmas!
Deborah Burns
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Hi Karen! It is a zebra potholder that I have hanging next to the stove! The pumpkin bread is really good, kind of like a banana nut bread or zucchini bread. I like anything made with pumpkin except pie, because sweet potato pie is much better than pumpkin pie!
Thanks for stopping by Karen, and Merry Happy Christmas to you and your family!
When baking it is so important to focus. I was baking once, left to take a call by the time I got back everything was ruined. It is better not to multi-task sometimes.
Hi Heather, oh it's soooo goood! You will love it!
Hi Vanessa! : )