Fall Harvest Bread

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This month the Bread Bakers group is baking up Hearty Fall Breads.    I was excited to dig into this challenge since I love all things fall.  The only thing I was having trouble with was deciding if I wanted to make a pumpkin bread or an apple bread.

After much debate I wondered why I couldn’t just combine the two together and make an apple pumpkin bread.   I’ve never made an apple pumpkin bread before but I thought it would probably taste pretty good.  Pumpkin is a pretty mellow flavor that comes to life with spices and those same spices pair nicely with apples so why not?

I came up with a basic outline for a recipe but thought I needed to add in some nuts.   Walnuts say fall to me and I happen to have a bag in the pantry so that’s what I went with.

After mixing the bread up I popped it in the oven and then had the task of coming up with a name for this bread.   I kept switching around Pumpkin Apple Nut or Apple Nut Pumpkin but it all sounded too wordy.   After a while all I could smell was pumpkin, cinnamon, and other spices.   Soon I thought that the bread simply smelled like fall so why couldn’t my bread be a fall harvest bread?

I decided it could and that’s what it was.  The bread was sweet and tasted of pumpkin, apples, and spices with a nice crunch from the nuts.   It was super easy to whip up and makes a great breakfast or snack.

Fall Harvest Bread

Fall Harvest Bread combines apples, pumpkin, and walnuts in one delicious bread.

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Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour hour

Total Time: 1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 16 slices

Author: Hezzi-D

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 c. flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 t. salt
• 1 1/4 c. sugar
• 1 c. pumpkin puree
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 c. vegetable oil
• 2 apples chopped
• 1/2 c. walnuts chopped

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a loaf pan with cooking spray and set aside.
• In a medium bowl combine the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix well and set aside.
• In a large bowl combine sugar, pumpkin puree, eggs, and vegetable oil. Mix well.
• Add the apples and walnuts to the pumpkin puree mixture and mix until combined.
• Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 60-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Allow to cool for 10 minutes then run a knife around the edge and remove from pan. Cool completely on a wire rack.

Notes

A Hezzi-D Original Recipe