Description
This is my favorite holiday food! It keeps well and is a great food to bring to holiday gatherings.
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 3 ½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 1 ½ tablespoons ground nutmeg
- 2 teaspoons ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 2 cups dark brown sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 4 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 (15 ounce) can solid-pack pumpkin
- ½ cup water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 2 loaf pans with cooking spray.
- Mix flour
- cinnamon
- nutmeg
- cloves
- ginger
- baking soda
- salt
- and baking powder together in a large bowl.
- Combine brown sugar
- white sugar
- applesauce
- and eggs in a large bowl. Add pumpkin and mix well. Add flour mixture alternately with water
- mixing well between additions. Divide between the prepared loaf pans.
- Bake loaves in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
- 60 to 65 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes. Invert onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins
Servings: 24