Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread

If you're like me and FAIL at making pies but love the smells and tastes of pumpkin, then you will love this bread recipe for Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread. My friend Susan made this and I got to have a piece while we enjoyed our coffee and watched our little ones play! It was so yummy and I had to try it out myself!

Ingredients:
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2/3 cup water
3 cups white sugar
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

The How To:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour three 7x3 inch loaf pans.

In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.

Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

The Verdict:
I made mine in a bundt pan because I was too lazy to wash out my loaf pans. In hind sight I would have gotten the loaf pans out. It took a lot longer to cook through in the bundt and I was afraid it was going to burn around the outside so some of the inside was a little undercooked. It still tasted amazing though so I was happy about that. For some reason, like pasta sauce, it tastes much better the next day. This is really easy to do and would be a big hit for your Holiday feast!