Braces Friendly Recipe: Week 42

Happy Thursday everyone! We hope you are having a great week so far. We know everyone is getting ready for Thanksgiving since it is only a few weeks away. This week's recipe is a great one to get you in the mood for Thanksgiving food.

You can view the original recipe here.

Pumpkin Spice Bread

Ingredients:

2 cups canned pumpkin
3 cups sugar
1 cup water
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
3 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
3/4 teaspoon ground cloves

Directions:

1 Heat oven to 350.

2 In a large mixing bowl, combine pumpkin, sugar, water, vegetable oil and eggs.

3 Beat until well mixed.

4 Measure the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, baking powder, nutmeg and cloves into a separate bowl and stir until combined.

5 Slowly add the dry ingredients to the pumpkin mixture, beating until smooth.

6 Grease two 9 x 5 inch loaf pans and dust with flour.

7 Evenly divide the batter between the two pans.

8 Bake for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

9 Cool for 10-15 minutes, then remove from pans by inverting onto a rack and tapping the bottoms.

10 Slice and serve plain, buttered, or with cream cheese.

Note: Cream cheese is the ONLY thing to put on this bread because--it is so so so yummy!

If anyone has a special Holiday recipe that they'd like to see featured on our blog, email Januari at januari@dunayortho.com.