Pumpkin Raisin Bread Recipes

PUMPKIN BREAD WITH RAISINS AND PECANS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 2 loaf pans.
• Sift flour, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl. Toss raisins and pecans with 1 tablespoon of the flour mixture in a separate bowl.
• Beat sugar and butter together using an electric mixer in a mixing bowl until fluffy. Add pumpkin puree, orange juice, eggs, and vanilla extract; blend until well combined. Add flour mixture slowly and blend thoroughly. Fold in raisins and pecans.
• Pour batter evenly between the 2 prepared loaf pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until firm and tops spring back lightly when pressed, 30 to 40 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool completely on racks before serving.

RAISIN-FILLED PUMPKIN SPICE BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, sift together flour, soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add sugar, oil, eggs and buttermilk. Mix well. Stir in flavorings, pumpkin, raisins and pecans. Pour into two greased 9x5-in. loaf pans. Bake at 350° for 60-65 minutes or until bread tests done. Let stand 10 minutes before removing from pans. Cool on a wire rack.

HOLIDAY RAISIN NUT PUMPKIN BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease loaf pans (can make in bundt pans but need to adjust timing). Mix oil, sugar, and eggs together in a large bowl. Mix in pumpkin puree. Stir together flour, soda, baking powder, salt, and spices. Add to pumpkin mixture and mix until just combined. Fold in nuts and raisins and spread evenly into desired baking pan. Depending on oven, bake for 45 minutes-1 hour or until done. Set aside to cool on wire racks before slicing.

GOLDEN RAISIN PUMPKIN BREAD

Steps:

• Scald milk; stir in pumpkin, shortening, sugar, salt and spices.
• Cool to luke warm.
• Sprinkle yeast on warm water; stir to dissolve.
• To the yeast, add 3 cups flour, the milk mixture, and eggs.
• Beat with electric mixer at medium speed for 2 minutes, scraping the bowl occasionally.
• Stir in raisins (if desired).
• Mix in enough remaining flour, a little at a time, first with a spoon and then with hands, to make a dough that leaves the sides of bowl.
• Turn onto lightly floured counter.
• Knead until smooth and elastic, 8-10 minutes.
• (This step could probably be done with a KitchenAid Mixer and a bread hook for several minutes).
• Place dough in a lightly greased bowl and turn over to grease top.
• Cover and let rise in warm place until doubled in size (about 1- 1 1/2 hours).
• Punch down.
• Turn out onto counter and divide dough in half.
• Shape in loafs and place in 2 greased 9X5X3-inch loaf pans.
• Brush tops of loaves with melted butter.
• Cover and let rise until almost doubled, about 50 minutes.
• Bake in a preheated oven at 375°F for about 35 minutes, or until bread tests done.

RAISIN PUMPKIN BREAD GLUTEN FREE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
• Beat brown sugar and butter together in a mixing bowl. Add pumpkin, eggs, buttermilk, and maple syrup; beat into the sugar mixture. Stir flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, and cloves together in a separate bowl; blend into the pumpkin mixture. Fold raisins into the resulting batter; pour into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 55 to 60 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

PUMPKIN RAISIN YEAST BREAD

Steps:

• Heat milk to just under boiling. Add the raisins and allow to sit for an hour to allow the raisins to soften.
• In the bowl of a mixer, combine pumpkin, honey, and egg.
• Add milk, raisins, and yeast. Mix well.
• Add 2 cups flour and spices. Mix again.
• Add the other 2 cups of flour. Mix until incorporated, then mix on medium speed for another minute or so. (This can also be done with a strong wooden spoon - work those muscles!).
• Leave the batter in the bowl and allow to rise for an hour.
• Thoroughly grease a 10 cup bundt pan and sprinkle the surface with raw sugar. (you can also use 1 standard loaf pan plus two mini loaf pans, angel food cake pan, 10 inch springform pan).
• Stir the dough down, and distribute the dough evenly around the pan. Wet your fingers and smooth the top, using a bit of pressure to compress the dough and eliminate air pockets.
• Allow dough to rise in the pan until about doubled in size.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake for 40-50 minutes (for the bundt pan). It should sound hallow when done. Let cool five minutes in pan, then loosen around the edges and invert it onto a cooling rack.

CRANBERRY-RAISIN PUMPKIN BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350-degrees F.
• Spray loaf pan (9"x5") with cooking spray.
• Sift dry ingredients (flour- baking powder) together in small bowl.
• Set aside.
• Cream butter or margarine in large bowl of electric mixer.
• Gradually add sugar.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time.
• Add pumpkin and vanilla.
• Add dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk.
• Fold in cranberries, raisins and walnuts (if using).
• Transfer batter to prepared pan.
• Bake for 1 hour 10 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on cooling rack for 15 minutes before inverting bread on cooling rack to finish cooling.