Pumpkin bread

[Magic Microbe]

I need your best recipe!

I am making it for a potluck in friday. Bonus points if it is low in fat.

[nadra24]

I will post my mom's when I go home for lunch.  Hers isn't low fat, though. She has experimented with substituting some/all of the oil for applesauce, and it doesn't meet her (admittedly high) standards.  If you don't know the difference, you probably get away with using a little bit of applesauce for some of the oil.

[merigayle]

Paula deen's with oil replaced by apple sauce and cut the sugar back.

[Chasing Amy]

Chocolate chip pumpkin bread

*Note: do not substitute yogurt for the vanilla pudding, I did this once and it tasted "off."

Ingredients

2 cups granulated sugar
1 can pumpkin
1/2 cup canola oil
1/2 cup vanilla pudding (I just use one snack size container)
2 large eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Cooking spray

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350°.

Combine first 5 ingredients in a large bowl, stirring well with a whisk. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and baking soda in a medium bowl, stirring well with a whisk.

Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture, stirring just until moist. Stir in chocolate chips.

Spoon batter into 2 (8 x 4-inch) loaf pans coated with cooking spray.

Bake at 350° for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pans on a wire rack, and remove from pans. Cool completely on wire rack.

[Ice Cream]

Trader Joe's has a very nice mix.  Can't go wrong.

[Magic Microbe]

Trader Joe's has a very nice mix.  Can't go wrong.

I will not be using a mix.

[Tim]

I will not be using a mix.

http://youtu.be/W5PItDrtjOA

[nadra24]

Sorry I forgot about this at lunch.  Here's my recipe, it makes two loaves.

2 cups pumpkin (1 small can)
1 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
3 cups sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp nutmeg
1 1/3 cups flour

Mix together well.  You will need to mix the last half of flour in by hand.  Spoon into 2 well greased loaf pans (the smaller size, 4x8 I think?)  Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.  Let cool 10 minutes before removing from pans.

I am intrigued by Amy's recipe with the vanilla pudding.

[Chasing Amy]

I am intrigued by Amy's recipe with the vanilla pudding.

I don't care for applesauce as an oil substitute (way too dry), but substituting half of the oil with vanilla pudding works nicely.

I've made variations of this recipe - adding walnuts, changing the spices around, etc. and it is pretty versatile.

[Magic Microbe]

Sorry I forgot about this at lunch.  Here's my recipe, it makes two loaves.

2 cups pumpkin (1 small can)
1 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
3 cups sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp nutmeg
1 1/3 cups flour

Mix together well.  You will need to mix the last half of flour in by hand.  Spoon into 2 well greased loaf pans (the smaller size, 4x8 I think?)  Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.  Let cool 10 minutes before removing from pans.

I am intrigued by Amy's recipe with the vanilla pudding.

Are you sure this is right? I had an epic fail.

[witchypoo]

yeah, nadra.  should that instead be 3 c flour and 1 1/3 c sugar?

[nadra24]

Sorry, MM.  My mom gave me a book of her recipes, and I copied it as she had given it to me.  I just called home to double check it, and my dad read her recipe card to me and it has 3 1/3 cups flour, not 1 1/3 cups.  It also has 1 tsp baking soda in addition to the baking powder.  (apparently she also cuts the sugar down to 2 1/2 cups, and the salt down to 1 tsp these days)  I admit that I haven't made it myself, (I prefer banana bread to pumpkin bread) and it surprises me a little that she didn't double check them before she gave them to us.

Now I am suspect of all of her recipes, I am sorry this one was wrong!  I wonder if any of my siblings have ever tried to make it. 

[onawhim]

Aw that happens.  My aunt made a recipe binder a few years back and asked us all to submit a dish we liked.  The other day my sister was looking something up and she noticed that the mujadarra recipe she had submitted had been copied wrong and called for 1/2 cup of cinnamon instead of 1/4 tsp.  We were laughing about it and I admit that I was kind of hoping one of my relatives had tried it as written   Ricey cinnamon mud!