Super Easy & Fancy Pumpkin Bread
This is an amazing pumpkin bread recipe that has the addition of a banana as its secret weapon!
Equipment
- loaf pans or specialized bread tubes
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ea. ground cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 med. banana, mashed
- 1 16 oz can pumpkin
- 3 eggs, slightly beaten
- ⅔ cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup walnuts or pecans, if desired
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Make sure racks are at lowest level.
- Lightly spray inside of baking tubes with non-stick spray. Place square of wax paper over one cap and insert over end of tube. (Prevents bread from sticking to cap.)
- Whisk the first 8 ingredients together in a mixing bowl. Add mashed banana, pumpkin, eggs, and oil (and nuts if desired) and mix well but don't over mix.
- With tubes standing upright on a cookie sheet and using a large spoon, spoon batter into tubes, filling half-way. Place cap over tube.
- Bake for 55-60 minutes.
- Take cookie sheet outwith bread tubes, and let cool (tubes should still be upright) for 10 minutes. Gently take off bottom cap, remove wax paper, use a knife to loosen the bread from the bottom of the tin. Take off top cap and slide bread out over cooling rack.Cool completely.
- The most efficient way to wash the tubes is to fill the sink with warm soapy water and let them soak for about 20 min. Then wash inside and out as well as caps. Stand upright to dry.