Fruit & Pumpkin Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 16 ounces canned pumpkin
• 1 2/3 cups sugar
• 1 cup applesauce
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 4 egg whites
• 3 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts
• 1/4 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries

Recipe

• 1 adjust oven rack so that the top of a loaf pan will be in the middle of the oven and heat the oven to 350.
• 2 grease two 8.5 x 4.5 loaf pans.
• 3 combine pumpkin, sugar, applesauce, vanilla, and eggs.
• 4 stir in spices and salt.
• 5 combine flour, baking powder, and baking soda, and stir into wet ingredients.
• 6 blend in nuts, raisins, and cranberries.
• 7 pour batter into loaf pans (while this could make 1 large loaf; it's unwieldy and doesn't cook well).
• 8 bake 50-60 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• 9 cool 10 minutes in pans, them remove from pans to finish cooling.