Starbucks Pumpkin Bread
Author: CopyKat.com
Starbucks Pumpkin Bread is a favorite of so many of us. This bread is
well spiced, and so moist.
Pumpkin bread is actually easy to make. Now if you don’t happen to have
all of the spices on hand, you can use pumpkin pie spice which you may
already have in your spice cabinet. I just love the flavors of the
cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, clove, and allspice.
If you can’t find pumpkin seeds you could use walnut seeds, it won’t be
quite like Starbucks, but it will still be very good. This recipe is a
quick bread, so this means that we mix our wet and dry ingredients
first separately, and then we mix them together. I find if the dry
ingredients are sifted it makes for a better bread, the bread will be
more airy, and have a uniform texture. You don’t want to over-mix a
quick bread, you want to mix it just long enough to get the lumps out.
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cardamom
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon clove
** if you are going to use pumpkin pie spice, use a scant 2 teaspoons
of spice in place of the spices mentioned here
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup pumpkin puree
1/2 cup vegetable oil (do not use olive or peanut oil)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 to 1/2 cup roasted and salted pumpkin seeds
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl add all of the dry
ingredients; flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, , and spices. Sift the
dry ingredients together. In a smaller bowl mix together the 2 beaten
eggs, the oil, the pumpkin puree, and the vanilla. Once the liquid
ingredients are mixed well pour over the dry ingredients. Stir until
the lumps are out. Do not over-stir the mixture. Pour into a 9x5x3 inch
loaf pan that has been sprayed with non-stick spray. Sprinkle pumpkin
seeds on top of bread. Bake for 50 - 60 minutes, until a toothpick
comes out clean when poked in the center of the loaf. Cool for
approximately 5 minutes in the pan, and then turn the pumpkin bread
onto a cooling rack.
The bread cuts best when allowed to cool completely.
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