When you eat pumpkin bread, it’s like getting a warm hug on a cold day. When you have pumpkin bread created by the chefs at the Disneyland Resort, there’s a extra dose of happiness in every bite. So many of the Disneyland Resort recipes are too complicated fancy for a regular home-cook like me, as they should be, that I just have to pass on them. So when a recipe rolls by with a short ingredient and direction list like this one for the pumpkin bread served at Goofy’s Kitchen at the Disneyland Hotel, plus it’s one that my kids would be able to help me make (and eat) – I jump on it!
Pumpkin Bread
Recipe from Goofy’s Kitchen at the Disneyland Hotel
Ingredients:
- 1 cup cake flour
- 3/4 cup bread flour
- 2 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 1/4 teaspoons nutmeg
- 2 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons oil
- 1/2 cup raisins (optional)
Directions: (makes 1 loaf)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan with nonstick spray; set aside.
- Whisk together cake flour, bread flour, baking soda, nutmeg, and cinnamon, in a large bowl. Set aside.
- Whisk together eggs, sugar, pumpkin puree, water, and oil in a medium bowl.
- Add egg mixture to flour mixture, stirring just until combined; do not overmix.
- Stir in raisins. (If you choose)
- Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 45-50 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Turn loaf out of pan into a wire rack to col.
Cooking Notes:
to try this recipe to celebrate the first day of autumn! I had all of the ingredients on hand except for “bread flour”… I just had all-purpose flour, so that’s what I used. Maybe this was a bad idea… Also my family are not raisin eaters, I can’t stand them in cookies, so I opted out – I’m sorry if you love them, I’m sure they’ll make the bread even better than it already it. I have a little trick when baking breads, about the last 5-15 minutes I lay a pan-sized piece of foil right on top of the bread as soon as it’s the right golden brown color, and that keeps the top from getting too dark or crunchy – it works like a charm.Outcome & Opinion:
Sometimes I think there is something wrong with my oven because certain things, like this bread, took far longer to cook through than the recipe called
for, like 15 minutes longer! So it could just be me or… not? Let me know if you had to bake this longer than called for. Also I would say that the bread was tasty, but it so wasn’t what I was expecting – it’s not like any other pumpkin bread I’ve eaten or made. The texture, I’m guessing from the different flour, is very light like a cupcake, and the taste was quite spicy! I put butter on my slice, but cream cheese would be yummy too.
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