Ingredients for Pumpkin Bread

Series Summary

Pumpkins are a large orange fruit commonly eaten and cooked to make a variety of traditional holiday dishes, including pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread and pumpkin seeds. Pumpkins can range in size from 9 to 18 pounds, with some varieties capable of reaching over 75 pounds. The color of the skin is normally orange or yellow, but can be green, white, red or gray in different varieties. Because of their versatility, pumpkins can be boiled, baked, roasted or mashed and is often served during fall holidays like Thanksgiving.

In this free video series, our expert will show you how to make homemade pumpkin bread. You will learn each easy to follow step for creaming the butter, mixing the dry and wet ingredients, adding the pumpkin and raisins and walnuts. Get tips for baking and cooling your pumpkin bread, as well as for turning pumpkin bread into a great holiday gift. Our expert will show you how to wrap and decorate pumpkin bread loaves for family and friends.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail. On behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make this delicious spicy pumpkin bread. First for our pumpkin bread, I'm going to tell you what ingredients you're going to need. First we're going to need some flour, white granulated sugar, baking soda and baking powder, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, cinnamon and all spice. If you don't want to have all of the different spices, you can also use pumpkin pies and a little bit extra cinnamon. We'll need just a dash of salt, a 1/4 cup of butter which is equal to 1/2 stick, chopped walnuts, golden raisins, a little bit of orange juice and last but not least, pumpkin. This is 1 cup of can pumpkin and you really want to use can pumpkin instead of cooking down your own pumpkin so that you can be assured of the taste and the consistency. Sometimes if you cook your own pumpkin, it's not going to have that full pumpkin taste that you are going to get from can, so for baking it's always best to use can pumpkin."