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Pumpkin Bread

Posted in bread, Entertaining at Home, Holiday Recipes, Recipes, tagged , , on November 18, 2010| 2 Comments »

Easy Pumpkin Bread

What can I say? It is nearly Thanksgiving and other than chocolate, my head is filled with thoughts of pumpkin delights. This easy pumpkin bread comes together quickly and has a nice mellow texture and flavor. You can add all sorts of wonderful goodies to it like chocolate chips, nuts, raisins, cranberries, whatever tickles your fancy. Or enjoy it plain!

Pumpkin Bread ingredients

Start by mixing sugars and spice - and everything nice.

Add eggs, butter, milk and pumpkin.

Add flour mix and whip it up.

Pour mix into a greased bread pan. Isn't this one pretty? Thanks, Hubby!

If you are a chocolate freak like me, this is where you realize chocolate chips or chunks would be really good and stir them into part of the batter.

Finally, the bread is ready to bake. (Please ignore the few chocolate chips giving away my chocolate addiction and the fact I forgot to add them until the batter was already in the pan.)

Hot out of the oven and ready to be devoured.

Yum!

Pumpkin Bread
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
2 eggs
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/3 cup milk
1 cup canned pumpkin pie filling
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder. Set aside.

Mix together sugars, cinnamon and spice. Add in eggs, milk, butter and pumpkin. Mix well. Add in flour mixture. If you want to go crazy and add nuts or chocolate chips, now would be the time to do that (as opposed to after you have the batter in the pan and end up poking things through the batter with your spoon – not that I have ever done that).

Bake for about an hour or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from oven. Cool. Thank yourself for making the bread from scratch and enjoy!

Happy Entertaining!

Shanna

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Banana Bread

Posted in bread, Breakfast, Recipes, tagged , , on November 5, 2010| 2 Comments »

Once in a blue moon, when I have a a bunch of overripe bananas, I will get inspired to bake banana bread.

Hubby is pretty excited when this happens and will eat half the loaf, still warm from the oven, slathered in butter – if I let him. (Have you ever tried stopping a hungry man from eating warm bread? Not an easy task, I assure you!)

This recipe isn’t hard to make and always turns out well.

Cast of characters for banana bread. Please ignore the fact I forget to include butter in the photo.

 

Mix dry ingredients together.

Mash two to three ripe bananas.

You need a cup of smashed-up, gooey bananas.

Add bananas, butter, milk and vanilla to dry ingrdients.

Beat in eggs and flour.

Then the cinnamon.

Add chopped nuts. If you need to chop (or smash to pieces) a meat tenderizer and a ziploc bag works well.

Pour batter into the pan.

Bake at 350 for almost an hour.

Golden brown and ready to enjoy!

Banana Bread

1 3/4 cup flour

2/3 cup sugar

2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. salt

1 cup mashed ripe bananas

1/3 cup butter or shortening

2 tbsp. milk

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 eggs

1/2 cup nuts

1 tbsp. cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix 1 cup flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda,  and salt. Mash two to three ripe (or overripe bananas, the riper the banana the stronger the flavor) bananas to make 1 cup. Add banana, butter, vanilla and milk to dry ingredients. Mix on low until blended then beat on high for two minutes. Add eggs and remaining flour, beat until blended. Add cinnamon and nuts. Bake 55-60 minutes or until golden brown and starting to pull away from the edges of the pan.

 

Happy Eating and Happy Entertaining!

Shanna

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Easy Herb Bread

Posted in bread, Easy Recipes, Recipes, tagged , on October 22, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Today’s recipe is hard, lengthy and whole bunch of work to make. Aw, just kidding.

This is so simple, you could have your 5-year-old make it for you. It’s the next best thing to sliced bread. Really!

Easy Herb Bread

Sliced Bread (your choice – I used white and, yes, I do realize the nutritional value, thank you very much)

Herb Seasoning or Powdered Dip Mix (I used a Parmesan peppercorn mix)

Butter (melted)

Butter slices of bread, sprinkle liberally with seasoning. Use a fun cookie cutter shape and cut out pieces of bread then place on a baking sheet (I used varying sizes of leaf cookie cutters).

Bake in a pre-heated 350 degree oven until edges are crispy and tops are starting to brown.

Serve and enjoy! Now wasn’t that easy?

Happy Entertaining!

Shanna

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