Spiced pumpkin bread with orange cream cheese

16 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
⅓ cup Butter or margarine; softened
1¼ cup Sugar
1 cup Sold pack pumpkin
1 Egg
1¾ cup All-purpose flour
1 teaspoon Pumpkin pie spice
½ teaspoon Baking soda
½ teaspoon Salt
½ teaspoon Ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon Baking powder
½ cup Dried currants
½ cup Chopped pecans -Orange Cream Cheese---
1 pack (8 oz) cream cheese; softened
3 tablespoons Sugar
2 teaspoons Vanilla extract
1 teaspoon Grated orange peel
1 teaspoon Milk; (up to 2 teaspoons)

Directions

Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light; add pumpkin and egg, mixing well. In a medium bowl, combine flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and baking powder; gradually add to butter mixture, mixing until well blended. Stir in currants and pecans.

Pour batter into a greased 8x4-inch loaf pan. Bake at 350° F for 1 to 1¼ hours our until a wooden toothpic inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool in pan on wire rack 15 minutes. Remove from pan; cool completely on wire rack. Serve with Orange Cream Cheese.

To make Orange Cream Cheese: In a medium bowl, combine all ingredients except milk. Stir until smooth. Stir in 1 to 2 teaspoons milk to make spreading consistency.

For holiday gift giving, place wrapped bread in a decorative basket along with a container of Orange Cream Cheese.

NOTES : Formatted by C. Walden (and very nicely done, too!) cranew@...

Recipe by: Spice Islands Recipe Leaflet Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #830 by Crane Walden <cranew@...> on Oct 7, 1997

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