Pumpkin Bread - Enough to Share
Posted by Kristen Doyle on Just Baking.
I have always had an admiration for people who perform Random Acts of Kindness. I remember being at the drive-through window with my mom and watching her give extra money to the cashier to buy the car behind us ice cream cones. I married a man who can often be found shoveling the driveways of neighbors after a big snow. I like to bake and then share what I make . . . things like this pumpkin bread, which makes two loaves . . . enough to share with others.
Random or not, acts of kindness make us feel good and they definitely can turn another person’s bad day around.With the economy the way it is, and people suffering so, can you imagine how nice it would feel to be the giver and the recipient of something unexpected? Randomly pay for someone’s lunch. Buy something off of a stranger’s Amazon Wish List and have it sent to them. Bake up some baked goods and take them around to people you care about. Just do something … small or big, practice acts of kindness as often as you can.
Pumpkin Bread
1 (16 oz.) can pumpkin
1-2/3 cups sugar
2/3 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 large eggs
3 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon baking powder
1. Move oven rack to low position so that tops of pans will be in center of oven. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 loaf pans.
2. Mix pumpkin, sugar, oil, vanilla, eggs in large bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients. Pour into pans.
3. Bake loaves for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pans.
