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Cranberry Pumpkin Bread

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A deliciously dense, moist pumpkin bread that is studded with tart, ruby red cranberries. Fabulous for breakfast or as a snack, festive enough to include on a holiday table and makes a terrific tea bread all autumn long. Simply a delicious, irresistibly moist and flavorful bread...it also freezes well!

"This was a super tasty and festive looking bread. I substituted apple sauce for the oil and used whole wheat and white flower to make it a bit more healthy. I was hesitant to add whole raw cranberries into the batter thinking they would be too tart in the finished bread, but the mild tartness was a wonderful complement to the sweet pumpkin flavor. Next time I will add more.
Also, I made my own cranberry sauce by simmering 1 1/2 cups whole fresh cranberries in a 1/8 cup water and 1/4 -1/2 cup sugar until the berries popped and the resulting jell thickened a bit. :)" - athomas42

Yield: 2 Ready in 1 hours, 25 minutes

Cuisine: American-SouthMain Ingredient: Pumpkin

(4.6, 10) 100% would make again (reviews)

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Loaves          
Original recipe makes 2
3 1/2 cupsUnbleached all-purpose flour
2 teaspoonsBaking soda
2 teaspoonsPumpkin pie spice
3/4 teaspoonSalt
1 teaspoonBaking Powder
1 2/3 cupsSugar
2/3 cupVegetable oil
4 largeEggs; at room temperature
1 16-oz canpumpkin; solid pack
1 16-oz canwhole berry cranberry sauce
3/4 cuppecans or walnuts; coarsely chopped and toasted (optional)
3/4 cupsraw cranberries; fresh or frozen, halved or coarsely chopped (optional)
-- Orange Glaze (optional) --
1 cupPowdered sugar
1/4 cuporange juice concentrate; undiluted
1/8 teaspoonGround allspice

Cranberry Pumpkin Bread Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease two 9- by 5-inch loaf pan, dust with flour, tapping out excess.

Spread chopped nuts on baking sheet, toast until fragrant, 5 to 10 minutes. Set aside to cool.

In a mini-food processor, process raw cranberries until coarsely chopped, or chop by hand. Set aside.

Whisk flour, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice, salt and baking powder together in a large bowl. In a medium bowl, combine oil and sugar together with an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition, until light and fluffy. Beat in pumpkin and cranberry sauce, until smooth. Lightly fold pumpkin mixture into dry ingredients with a spatula until just combined and batter looks thick and chunky. Fold in nuts and raw cranberries, if desired. Scrape batter into prepared loaf pans.

Bake until golden brown, bread has shrunk slightly away from sides of pan and a tester inserted in center comes out clean, 60 to 65 minutes. Cool in pan for 5 minutes, transfer to wire rack to cool. Serve warm or at room temperature. (The bread can be wrapped with plastic wrap and stored at room temperature for up to 3 days or frozen for up to 2 weeks.)

For glaze: In a small bowl, mix 1 cup powdered sugar, 1/4 cup (thawed) undiluted orange juice concentrate and 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice until smooth. Drizzle over bread just before serving, if desired.

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Cranberry Pumpkin Bread Reviews

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An excellent, easy, no-fuss recipe My wife loves it and we will definitely be making this again!
3 months, 1 weeks, 1 hours, 42 minutes ago
5 months, 5 days, 15 hours, 32 minutes ago
Oh my gosh! My mom used to make this same recipe. We had this for Thanksgiving. It was a delicious hit and everyone in our family loved it.
5 months, 3 weeks, 1 days, 22 hours, 2 minutes ago
Simply delicious. I've made it many times now and it's one of my favorite quickbreads. When I took it to our ladies auxiliary meeting it received many compliments.
1 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, 9 hours, 7 minutes ago
This was fantastic! The bread was beautiful, delicious and so easy to make. I highly recommend using the glaze - it really added a distinctive flavor.
1 years, 6 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 8 hours, 25 minutes ago
This was a super tasty and festive looking bread. I substituted apple sauce for the oil and used whole wheat and white flower to make it a bit more healthy. I was hesitant to add whole raw cranberries into the batter thinking they would be too tart in the finished bread, but the mild tartness was a wonderful complement to the sweet pumpkin flavor. Next time I will add more.
Also, I made my own cranberry sauce by simmering 1 1/2 cups whole fresh cranberries in a 1/8 cup water and 1/4 -1/2 cup sugar until the berries popped and the resulting jell thickened a bit. :)
2 years, 4 months, 3 weeks, 5 days, 9 hours, 35 minutes ago
This was a super tasty and festive looking bread. I substituted apple sauce for the oil and used whole wheat and white flower to make it a bit more healthy. I was hesitant to add whole raw cranberries into the batter thinking they would be too tart in the finished bread, but the mild tartness was a wonderful complement to the sweet pumpkin flavor. Next time I will add more.
Also, I made my own cranberry sauce by simmering 1 1/2 cups whole fresh cranberries in a 1/8 cup water and 1/4 -1/2 cup sugar until the berries popped and the resulting jell thickened a bit. :)
2 years, 4 months, 3 weeks, 5 days, 9 hours, 36 minutes ago
I can't wait to try this. I usually start baking and freezing breads for the holidays in late Oct. to early Nov. This is one I will definately be making. The picture is great also!
5 years, 8 months, 1 days, 13 hours, 10 minutes ago
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Tags

  1. American-South
  2. Pumpkin
  3. Bread
  4. Brunch
  5. Desserts
  6. Snacks
  7. Quick Bread
  8. Bake
  9. AP flour
  10. baking soda
  11. pumpkin pie spice
  12. baking powder
  13. sugar
  14. vegetable oil
  15. eggs
  16. pumpkin
  17. cranberry sauce
  18. pecans
  19. walnuts
  20. nuts
  21. cranberries
  22. Glaze
  23. powdered sugar
  24. orange juice
  25. allspice
  26. Fall
  27. Sweet
  28. GPFUiBTZVUYnRgxmuMD

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