Healthy Recipes
Healthy Pumpkin Bread
Ingredients :
- 2 cups Splenda (or can use 1/2 & 1/2 regular Splenda)
- 1 cup chunky applesauce
- 3/4 cup of plain egg beaters
- 1 16-ounce can solid pack pumpkin
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans (I toast first in an un-greased frying pan)
- chopped dates (opt.)
- raisons or craisons (opt.)
Directions
1. Spray 2 loaf pans to grease
2. Mix first 4 ingredients with a blender on medium.
3. Fold in rest of ingredients (except nuts, raisons and dates) with a wooden
4. spoon, barely mixing. Stir in raisons, dates, nuts, reserving 1/2 of the nuts.
5. After pureed into loaf pan, sprinkle remainder of the nuts on top.
6. Cook in preheated oven at 350 degrees about 1 hour and 10 minutes (until tester comes out clean when inserted in middle of the loaf).
7. Cool 10 minutes and then transfer to a rack to continue cooling.