RECIPE: REC: Pumpkin Ribbon Bread

[meryl]

This recipe won 2nd place in a baking contest.

I'm not a pumpkin fan, so I haven't tried it, but it sounds excellent.

PUMPKIN RIBBON BREAD

1 cup pumpkin

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 eggs

1 1/2 cup sugar

1/2 tsp salt (optional)

1/2 tsp cloves

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1 2/3 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Cream cheese filling ingredients:

1 pkg cream cheese -- (8 oz.) softened

1/3 cup sugar

1 TB flour

1 egg

2 tsp grated orange peel

Combine pumpkin, oil & eggs; beat well. Add sugar, salt, cloves, cinnamon, flour, baking

soda, and nuts, mixing to blend. Pour 1/4 of the batter in 2 greased 7 1/2 x 3 1/2" bread

pans (pour 1/4 of the batter in each pan) - {OR one 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan - pour in half the batter}.

Beat cream cheese, sugar and flour together. Add egg and mix to blend. Stir in orange

peel. Carefully spread cream cheese filling mixture over batter in the pans. Cover the

cream cheese filling with the remaining batter.

Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour or until bread tests done. Cool 10 minutes in pans before turning out on a rack to cool.

Store in the refrigerator.

Joyce's 1997 2nd place Pumpkin Bread

 

[andreaindc]

This looks awesome, Meryl...

am totally booked this week - an exam on Wed & then my MIL coming that afternoon (for two weeks) - but plan on making this this weekend!

 

[meryl]

Hi Andrea, best of luck on your exam. If you make this, let me know how it turns out!

 

[andreaindc]

Thanks, Meryl! Can't wait to get this one out of the way and have more time in the kitchen!